The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-03

sentimental-of mental training it IS
Notwithstanding The latter
is animal in that ii relates to the body
alone-its development and comfort.
Education relates to the mind only and
lifts it above Grass materialism.
Education contemplates a knowledge
Iof the classics. acquaints us with the
facts of history, ancient and modern,
sacred and profane, includes a broad
vista Of the worlds best literature
and some familiarity with music, art
and architecture. Against this, is the
unitarian conception of education
which was born in Germany and there
carried to its last analysis and copied
in this country in our public schools.
/ quote from an address by Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge. one of the lead
ing scholars of the age: It have be-
come very sceptical as to the wisdom
which would cast the literature of
Greece and Rome upon the dust heaps,
lwhen I have contemplated the per
formances of the most adversely and
most thoroughly educated people in
the world, from whom we have so
largely borrowed in the way of edu-
cation; when / have seen that people
| develop to the highest point the
science of destroying human lives, as
| perhaps was to have been expected;
when I have seen them produce an or
ganized barbarism far surprising in
Its savage efficiency any that has ever
afflicted the world; when I have wit
messed the deeds wrought by the pro-
ducts of the most modern and i'm
proved methods of education which
surpass in wanton destruction, in
equally wanton cruelty. in sheer naked
| horror, anything which history can
show; when / have beheld all this I
have seriously doubted whether the
most modern education has been quite
a complete success as its advocates
assert. In the centuries Of classical
education which followed the Renais-
isance and the revival of learning there
were wars In abundance-general
needless, sometimes desolating, often
cruel, always destructive and sad But
in all that long period there was never
anything so wholly hideous as that
which we have seen in this recent
war, Ruin has taught me thus to
ruminate' and I think that it is easy
to show that TO detect a connection
between methods of education and the
events of the present world wide war
is not wholly fanciful."
Generally speaking the word ."clas-
sizes" is used to describe Greek and
Roman literature, but in its broader
and more comprehensive sense it
means belonging to or associated with
the first or highest class, especially in
literature; accepted as of the highest
rank; serving as q standard, model or
guide"
Tested by this rule the Bible is the
worlds greatest classic, and without
a very comprehensive knowledge of its
contents no one can. lay claim to be
educated.
Prof. Glders1eeve, that greatest liv-
ing master of languages, who for
twenty years was professor of Greek
at the University of Virginia; and for
the last AZ years has filled the same
chair at Johns Hopkins University,
describes the education southern gem
tlsman before the Civil War as "pos-
conservation of the Christian
Let us briefly view the value of
Bible study. If with mind inclined to
scientific research one seeks to solve
the inscrutab1e mystery of creation,
not Humboldt nor Darwin, nor Huxley,
nor Tyndall, can furnish a better
theory than that found in the first
chapter of Genesis. It may not be
true, it probably is not-tbut that is
| equally so of the theories or specula-
lions Of all who seek to explain the
| beginning of matter which probably
always existed, or how matter can ex-
ist without having had a beginning
The theory Of spontaneous generations
is no more probable than that the first
woman was made from one of Adams
ribs. If animal life could begin spon-
| taneously one million or hundred
million years ago, there is no reason
why new forms Of animal life should
not have been spontaneously gem
Grated through all the intervening
years and be originating around us
now.
In Levtticus we have the first codi-
| fication of laws. Deuteronomy is a
repetition of the law as found in Lev
!ticus, with the laws of later promuI-
cation, and is the earliest example of
revision of laws.
The United States has recently
completed it's decennial numbering of
the people of the United States-cen-
sus taking as we call it-and we find
in the Book of Numbers d complete
census and genealogical table of all
the then known people.
1t would be impossible in the limited
space of this address to point out even
most briefly. the masterful supremacy
of the Bible as a classic, over any
other published book or set of books. |
Let it suffice that within it will be
found, treated in mastery style. every
subject of the literature of all nations