Widnes Examiner. — 1906-05-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

BOMB EXAMPLES AND OPINIONS. Goethe, "whose genius raised the German language to a new plane as a medium of literary expression," would be remembered as a discoverer in Science had he never penned a page that can be called literature. Darwin's " Origin of Species' m " owed much to the for of its presentation, but much also to the greater artist Huxley, who in" Man's place in Nature," and in a score of other essays brought all the resources of a marvellously flexible literary style to the aid of the equally revolutionary doctrines that Darwin had inaugurated. It is well to remember also among the teachings of history that material prosperity in the true development of civilization must go hand in hand with in. tellectual culture, and none have more ardently ' desired the spread of the later than those who in their day were the great economic pioneers of the former. In the stress of the campaign for Free Trade in 180, Mr. Richard Cobden said " there will be but one test for the future greatness of Manchester" and that will be a " menthl test, andd, not a Material test,—that • our destiny will be decided, not by the expanse of bricks and mortar,, not by the multiplication , of steam engines, not by the accumulation of wealth ; but just in proportion as mental development goes forward, and in proportion to the development of wealth and mental resources just in the same proportion will our destiny be advanced or exalted, or the veiy reverse." At Manchester, also in 1847, the second great apostle of the " Manchester school," Mr. • John Bright spoke in a similar strain. After enumerating ..soine of the inventions, discoveries and the commercial progress of the country, he • asked : " With these increased comforts and advantages that we enjoy shall we neglect thnt which is most noble, because it is the indestruct' ible portion of our being ! Shall we be victors in the material world only, and gain no laurels , in the intellectual? Or shall we dive to the deepest depths, and soar to the loftiest heights ; growing in mental stature, and adding to all -.those outward blessiege that surround us—yet neglect those which are purer and more lasting, and which spring up as a rich harvest from the culture of the iniud ?" lutscLe vensus MINI). Here we have the loftiest and mOst eloquent tributes to culture from the most Iminent res prelentatives of bushiest; that this country has produced ; I could gm, ninny others but I Must content myhelf with a brief appreciation of this same culture , by the greatest business man  of our time—nay of t time—Mr. Andrew Carnegie. A year ago in his rectorial address to tin- students of St. Andrews he said " Of what value is material compared with moral and intellectual ascendancy—supremacy not in things of the body, but in those of the spirit ! What the barbarous triumphs of the sword compared with those of the pen ! What the action of the thew and ,sinews against that of Godlike reason, the murdering savage armies of brutal force against the peaceful armies of literature, poetry, art, science, law, government, medicine and all the agencies which refine and civilize man and help him onward and upward !" And so to sum up—as to whether it is best for the boy that he should be educated for business or for culture, must depend upon his natural proclivities and upon his intended career; but independently of any professional or industrial occupation that he may se ect, in proportion as his education moulds his heart as well as his brain he will be impelled through life to seek for intellectual enjoyment in the higher realms of culture.   legislation was put on the Statute Book of the country. (Hear, hear.) He was satisfied that they would never find the House of Lords standing out against what was known as the reoognisei will of the country. Finally. the speaker asserted that they would yet see their fiscal policy—the policy of Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain—carried out. (Applause.) Mr. J. H. WELSFORD supported, and the resolution was adopted.., _ _ _  tr.JS.HAnMooD