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Opportunity, and Other Essays and Addresses

Opportunity, and Other Essays and Addresses

Spalding, John Lancaster

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General LawGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 115158195X
ISBN13: 9781151581952
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.10 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER FOURTH THE UNIVERSITY AND THE TEACHER1 The chief concern of every man is not, as it should be, the formation of his character. The most wish merely to find a recipe for comfort or a way to acquire riches and whatever HETHER the rule of the people shall ap - - prove itself as a wise, beneficent, strong, and enduring government will depend largely on its attitude toward religion and education, the fountain-heads and safeguards of right human life. When power is placed in the hands of the multitude, and opportunity is offered to all alike, whatever makes for utility, for comfort and ease, for physical health and well-being, will be held in high esteem, will be cultivated and promoted; for the need of all this is felt by all, and where there is freedom, all will labor to provide it. Consider for a moment this great metropolis, where but yesterday the wild-fowl screamed among their fellows. Its growth and wealth are the marvel of a century of wonders. Not in else they aim at. Goethe. 1 Address delivered at the Convocation of the University of Chicago, October 2, 1899. London or Paris or other centres of the Old World shall we find more stately structures or more commercial and industrial activity. In the presence of this vast achievement of human energy, the most thorough idealist cannot but stand in awe; for such power, such energy, such efficacy of will, on whatever objects it may be exerted, is awful. Here, assuredly, it has been exerted almost wholly on what is material, on what is simply useful. Look on these lofty buildings; observe the eager throngs hurrying through these busy thoroughfares, and ask yourselves what it all means. Why have these edifices been erected? Why are these streets filled with people who hasten on as though pursu...

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