Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-08
A. y. CuLE's APPEAL.

without Wishing to discriminate be-
tween addresses all Of which were
good II is fair to say that the best
address, from practical standpoint,
delivered at the meeting OF the state
teachers association mt Santa re,
was that of A. d. Grille Of Roswell on
the value Of unitarian education.
Among the many notable utterances
Of Or. Grille the following may be
cited as stating fact rarely consd-
cred by educators
Again II Is argued that the study
Of Latin and Greek languages devel-
ops In the pupil high regard for
law and ordor That the study Of
Crock Develops an aesthetic taste and
an ethical training submit that
the best morals that tho Greek nation
ever afforded and crystalltzed into
'dogmutic statements are not COM
patihle with any modern statements
OF right and wrong and of proper
conventional conduct AS for notion
Of law in the Roman nation, as 1t
may be reflected In the Latin lessons,
II is not IN keeping With our present
notion OF the supremacy of law ana
is for inferior TO the great statements
OF the Apostle Paul All the mudinR
OF characters OF the ancient Greeks
and Romans much OF which | have
heard before this convention In pre-
Wous years, Is either in ignorance OF
In attempt at great scholarship. the
facts are that Socrates personal HE
should be obnoxious TO every Schoo.
teacher In New Mexico
Or Crile's contention was that In
the devotion TO the ancient Greek and
Latin literature we ignore the work
Of two thousand years Of Christian
civilization In idolizing the accom-
plishments of heather civilizations
His reference to Socrates morals
was particularly apt because socra-
tes beyond question, represented the
highest ideals attalnable by any
heather civilization,
Consider any Of the great modern
poems OF love, compare their concep-
ton of love with the conception cele-
I trated I'm the beautiful poems of love
in the Greek and latin literatures
The comparison makes evident that
1 Christianity introduced spiritual
/ element into love or which Sappho
with all her beautiful passion and
Catullus with an his exquisite appre-
citation knew nothing
The Roman woman was respected
and stately person She was honor
cd as wife ana mother In the family.
I She had "a high position, duo chiefly
( to the fact that her husband and sons
We're largely engaged in wars which
took them away from home and she
was the real head OF the household
| and handled the business affairs Of
! the family Roman law legalized her
! place ana rights, and there are not
many states in the union which give
( hy law to women such position as
they enjoyed in Augustan Rome.
But even early Christianity was re-
pressing that violence OF passion
( which, as Or. Jung OF Zurich obs
serves. characterized an pre- Christian
/ civilization, Christianity forbade the
circus with Its gudmtonal combats,
/ the satumalian mysteries with their
outbursts OF lust, an those sensuali-
( ties which even today survive
throughout Asia and Africa and are
accepted as commonplace Likewise
early Christianity forbade the mas
tcr's misuse Of his female slaves
To DO Justice to the consequences
OF Christianity In The development Of
civilization, doesn't today require be-
Fnef In tC The denial or it's pro-
found spiritual import which the
great Utonalsts OF half a century
ago voiced, is no longer possible TO
anyone acquainted with science which
approaches the subject. not as censor
hut as historian Of the process OF the
soul
It was acquaintance with modern