The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-14

"EducattOn for Freedom"
1.-The legacy of the nineteenth CEN
fury was three-fold industrial organiza-
ton, the democratic spirit, and the cos
mic sense said DR.. Zueblin. '"The
nineteenth century was appropriately
called by Alfred Russell Wallace. the
wonderful century yet its greatest
wonders were not its verities but its
vistas. Modern industrial organization
has multiplied creature comforts be-
yond the dreams Of earlier times, 1t has
united workers on scale before un-
happy: it has tried to exploit science.
but 1t has not become scientific. 1t
has increased material wealth and sac
rificed spiritual values by compelling
uniformity
The Democratic Spirit.
The second factor in the heritage Of
today is the democratic spirit. This
has not yet expressed itself SO fully in
liberty and fraternity as in equality.
Despite the shameful extremes Of lux
ury and poverty a superficial equality
pervades contemporary life. Everybody
reads, everybody travels, everybody
does what everybody else does because
everybody else is doing it.
More people read than ever before
in history. Most of them cannot vet
want good things; hence the taste of
the cultivated surrenders to the pOpu-
I4T demand. JOufuAuSIn 10 extravaganza
fiction is journalistic; the drama IL SEN
sational. The democratic spirit holds
latent the larger life. 1t Is momentar-
lily sacrificed to mediocrity.~ Audacity
is required to rise above the common
place.
Cosmic Sense Is Factor.
1t is just beginning to dawn upon us
democratic spirit for the life Of to-
morrow il the cosmfc sense. The fiji
teenth century knew a great deal about
the remote heavens and nothing about
man. The nineteenth century taught
US about the man who is at hand. and
through knowledge Of him we are
beginning to get u vastly larger grasp
Of the universe.
The child cannot be fitted for occu-
patton in the ever bigger world IL we
sion. He must not only have q dex-
ferrous hand and trained eye. but
the power of Incorporating his i'm
aEination in the work of his hands.
Most of US need fewer and better
things; all of us will benefit by know
ing how to make better II not fewer
things. whether we make pottery or
poetry. The pupil must be taught
service that his occupation may have
some other goal ths-n money making.
Workshop and Playground.
The school must become a work.
prison or a hospital. Training for
character will be secured not so much
by catechism and discipline as by the
exposition Of the meaning of harmony.
The whole nati.e of the child must
expand by reaching out for the whole
content of the universe. He must get
world-philos0phy. He must come
into harmony with nature. man and
God. He will reach nature through
science. man through art. and God
; Z 1.rr ~. Snfn vuf1 ~
him not the lahore tory but the world.
He will live and learn and work out
Of doors. He viii; come into assured
harmony with nature II he has health,
mental and spiritual. Man IL revealed
by the work OF his hands, the history
Of civilization IL written In architec-
ture. The pupil will come into har-
mony with God not by theological
instruction but by entering into the
! universal and comprehensive. even II
| too young to grasp the riddle Of the
universe. He will not be content with
the knowledge Of his own accomplish
ments or those of others: he will de-
cosmos and discover the unity of all
things.
Kate Devereux Blake. of New York
spoke at the closing general semion on
Peace" The state Of affairs in Europe
at the present time was pointed out to
illustrate the value of training children
to look with disgust upon warfare. The
speaker urged the teachers to empha-
size the ideals Of peace. Several mu-
steal features gave variety TO the meet
ing Friday night.
Funeral OF our late brother, George
w. Reed, will be held Monday at ESQ
p M The body will lie In rtate at the
residence. 1888 Harrison. Sunday to s
p. m. Members of lodge zeo A. o. u. w.
will please notice. tSigned),
WILSON C. CARTER. II. W.
GEORGE MAN0HAN, Rec-