Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-03-18

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ance,' and that only by thought can
we penetrate to reality. We begin life
with an entire outfit of wrong notions
The child thinks the earth fiat; il IS
not. II Il round The sun appears 10
go around the earth; as matter OF
fact, il is the earth that goes around
the sun All education consists in rec
flying these mistakes The things
that appear self-eviGent, plain As
pike staff, are not true at all They
a5e decisions. The reality lies behind
then; we learn by experience. II We
tTGst in appearances. We will always
be fooled. and We learn by finding out
The acluality that lies beneath them.
Man learns through the knowledge
gained by others as referred 10 above,
and those experiences are the failures
and successes of the people who nave
lived before US and who have kept
record OF their doings laid down in
books for our instruction and guild
ance
Man learned these truths about
himself many centuries ago, first II
was handed down from sfather TO son,
then by pictures on stone-or clay slabs
or plates, and these gradually changed
TO lines, characters. and finally let
ters.
"The first collection of these stones
end clay books was at Nineyah, b. c.,
1900, IN the early days of civilization.
The second. at Alexandria, founded by
the Ptolemeys; and the most wonder
ful collection in the world OF them was
that OF Ashur bani pal, King Of As
syria. the son of Esarhaddon Of the
Bible. ne most powerful and cruel OF
the Assyrian monarchs who lived $50
Z. c.
"The Alexandrian library was
founded as alluded TO above by the
Ptoloemeys of whom Cleopatra, the
ravishingly beautiful Queen of Egypt
whose line had ruled over that land
for three hundred years, and for whom
Caesar and Mark Anthony gave up SO
much. She was the last OF her line
and lived in the First Century before
Christ Herodotus, the Father OF His
tory. who went to Egypt TO write
history of that nation and land, laid
down his pen fifty years before Christ
so, If man learns from the expert
ences of others, and books are the
means by which he acquires that
knowledge. and collection Of such
books is a library. then by all means
lei US have the library, and in il let US
nave books with broad gagged ideals.
For ones ideals are of the utmost
;mportance What is in our minds
directly tIfeets the work OF our hand;
what we believe affairs what We see,
and hear, so ones first duty is to get
The facts and to see truly. If you have
had false ideas or twisted sentiments.
have a cleaning up inside, for there is
IA ethics of the intellect as well as Of
the heart Don't lie to yourself or
hypnotize yourself, believe in the truth
and II will make you free. Truth is
the logic of the universe, the reason
ing OF destiny and the mind Of God.
SO. get right ideas.
There are many wrong ones in
vogue today, which if followed to their
ultimate end would cause us to feel
that tue only really moral thing to do
would be to lock our children up in 4
barn and feed them through a knot
hole AS | said above regarding the
child and tie puppy on would have
driveling idiots.
This system is based on the idea
that parents chief duty is to keep
the child safe. While the truth is. our
task is to train the child for intelli-
gent liberty and equip him TO take
care OF himself. how to meet danger
and not how to avoid It. 1t is not
opportunity that threatens the morals
of mankind. but ignorance of mind
and feebleness of character
There is only one way to insure
moral character and adequate intelii-
gence of the people, and that is to
teach ethics in the pblic schools
10 train children there in honesty,
cleanliness and manhood; out OF
school, by good books and good asso-
Citations to train, educate and develop
that which was there started The
public library. therefore. is the best
way OF serving this END. And as the
coming generation must shortly take
our place. can there be a greater serv-
ice TO God and country than to prop
eriy ct them for this battle? Il is q
duty more honorable than making
money. holding high Office or leading
an army. I.et US BY all means have
the library"
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