The Washington herald., 1915-06-05

| forget bodies that W.
can be said to be perfectly we'll Such moments o
freedom from self-consciousncss all recognize
as among the best in life Then VIC don't thinl
about our bodies at all We free to give full
play to the mind. We know what freedom
really is.
Unhappily there arc those who never seem tc
achieve this freedom. We sometimes say tina
they are the slaves OF themselves. But they arc
really slaves OF their bodies
Whether aware unaware, it is the
slavery OF the body that are all trying tc
| escape.
Sometimes think that have escaped. But
| pcr>>tcntly VIC go back
| On the other hand. see those about US who
act if they had abandoned themselves to their
bodies, ii they cared never to escape.
For such often express abhorrcnce-if We
are thoughtlcss unkind
1t is our unkndncss and our thoughtlcssness
that makes forget how closely we are associat-
ed with those slaves of the body. how intimately
our slavery and freedom arc bound with their
freedom and their slavery.
In many cases 1t is we ourselves who have
helped to forge their chains for them.
And in forging their chains we have strength
encd own chains.
What is the discovery of science that will per-
form the miracle human beings Luther Bur
bank and other scientists perform on plants and
fruits and wheat?
1t is simple that | almost ashamed to
put it down here.
1t is education, OF course.
What is education, anyway?
This word often that we forget
what it
Often confuse education with going through
school or college We speak OF college graduates
educated women and educated men because they
have taken college degrees
But know many such women and men who are
merely trained into conventions and prejudices
trained to be echoes OF other peoples ideas.
Education surely can't mean sending out into
the world mere revcrberators.
We have plenty OF rcvcrbcrators in the world
There is why the colleges should make
Education to be OF any real worth must teach
people how to think.
1t must give them power to use every day of
their lives the magic OF the mind.
For there is no magic in the universe that can
compare with the magic OF the mind.
There is a wise man who occasionally speaks
in public in this part OF the world. Whenever
L
hear him. He walks forward very quietly. Very
simply he says what he has to say Then he
sits down.
What he says is always good The way he
says it is always good.
As he goes on | can feel a mind at work easilv
pleasantly. There is no waste either of words or
OF method of delivery. There is perfect economy.
In listening to him have the feeling that am
listening to a mind that has very nearly reached
perfection Its JOY to see how finely a human
being can be developed.
There are not many men in the world like this
man. But there arc many human beings in every
who could be developed to be like him
He is flower of the race, a valuable possession
to society.
Is it not odd that. though we know how valu
able possession this man is, we do not do our
best to develop many more such valuable possess
sions?
The Luther Burbanks of the world are maryels
We must all revere them
But the chief value of their magic does not lie
in the work itself.
1t lies IN reminding us of the magic that lies
sleeping IN the millions of human beings that pop
ulate the world. ''-
For IN every one of these human beings hes the
magic OF mind, waiting to be reused and developed
to perform its wonders
Don't you think that we are foolish to let so
much OF this power go to waste?