Evening star., 1936-02-15

other detail of the most gigantic
patronage machine in history. But, of
course. you said that politics have
nothing to do with the selection of
Federal employees, so, of course, we all
feel completely treasured.
Alarmed by Communism.
"Also we view with alarm the un-
checked spread of Russian Com
munistic propaganda, agitation and
sabotage, simultaneous, IS 1t is, with
your deliberate inflaming of class
against class.
do you ask our loyalty to what
you promised in 1882, to what you have
since done, to what you say you have
done, to what you now promise to do,
or to what you may do if reelected?
Let us see now what Josiah Royce
had, almost prophetically, to say about
the public questions today before us.
In the above quoted work on loyalty
he says: The present tendency to
the Capitalization of power in our Ma
tional Government seems to me. then,
a distinct danger. 1t is substitution
of power for loyalty. To the increase
of wise provincialism in our country
I myself look for the best general
social means of training our people
in loyalty ;. AS to centralized power
and dictatorship, he says further: Let
us then merely recall the well-known
verdict that tragedy and comedy and
the wisdom of the ages have passed
upon the lust for power -. The seeker
after merely individual power has un-
dertaken a battle with the essentially
irresistible forces of the whole uni
verse. Whoever pursues power, and
only power. wars therefore with un-
conquerable fate
Quotes Book.
"In his book, The Problem OF
Christianity he says: For our time
shows that individualism and collec-
tivism are tendencies each Of which.
as our social order grows, intensifles
the other. The more the social will
expresses itself in vast organizations
of collective power, the more are in
dividuals aware Of the vast
opportunities that would be theirs If
they could but gain control of
these social forces =. And so, when
opportunity offers, the individual self
will casts its vote in favor of new
devices to enrich or intensity the "a
preston Of the collective will. For II
desires social powers. 1t wants them
for its own use. . For the highly
trained modern agitator . is in
tensely both an individualist and a
man who needs the collective will.
The individualism of such a man
wars with his own collectivism; while
each, as insist, tends to inflame the
other. AS an agitator, the typical
restless child of our age often insists
on heaping up new burdens Of social
control-control that he intends to
have others feel rather than himself.
Wretched man, by reason Of his di-
vided will, he is; and he needs only
a little reflection to observe the fact.
Sees Nimble Loyalty Needed.
"The above is a little of what the
wise philosopher, Josiah Royce, had
to say about loyalty. disloyalty, over
centralized authority, political agita-
tors, autocracy, collectivism and die
tatorship. Beside these are set what
your record, utterances. promises and
actions seem, to many thoughtful
citizens, to have been and to seem.
To what cause are you asking in Jo-
siah Royce's words for our loyalty?
A loyalty that could embrace all these
things would be far more nimble than
any treated of in his philosophy, and
would belong to chameleon, or
weather vane type of ethics that he
never taught you or anybody else.
"And Josiah Royce said 'disloyalty
is moral suicide
with complete sincerity, am, very
truly yours, STEPHEN ROYCE"
The quotations from Josiah Royce
which the President used read in part
as follows: What great crises teach
all men whom the example and coun-
sci of the brave inspire is the lesson:
Fear not, view all the tasks of life as
sacred, have faith in the triumph of
the ideal. give daily all that you have
to give. be loyal and rejoice whenever
you find yourselves part of a great
ideal enterprise. You. at this mo-
ment, have the honor to belong to a
generation whose lips are touched by
fire. However memory brings
back this moment to your minds, let
1t be able to say to you: that was a
great moment. It was the beginning
Of q new era"
Taught "a Years at Harvard.
Josiah Royce passed the last "a of
his 81 years of life as q teacher OF
philosophy at Harvard University, and
it was there that he achieved the
stature which has made him one Of the
foremost Of American teachers and
thinkers.
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