A Prime Our Civilization One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of the virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fibre. The barbarian, because of the very conditions of his life, is forced to keep and develop certain hardy qualities which the man of civilization tends to lose, whether he be clerk, factory hand, merchant, or even a certain type of farmer. University of Berlin Address. Personally, I do not believe that our civilization will fall. I think that on the not Worse whole we have grown better and not worse. I think that on the whole the future holds more for us than even the great past has held. But, assuredly, the dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true. Ibid. Good Will toward Men The more an American sees of other countries the more profound must be his feelings of gratitude that in his own land there is toward Men not merely complete toleration but the Good Wil heartiest good will and sympathy between sincere and honest men of different faithgood will and sympathy so complete that in the inevitable daily relations of our American life Catholics and Protestants meet together and work together without the thought of difference of creed being even present in their minds. This is a condition so vital to our national well-being that nothing should be permitted to jeopard it. A Message to the American People. The Peo World Knit Together The deeds and works of any great statesman, the preachings of any great ethical, ples of the social, or political teacher, now find echoes in both hemispheres and in every continent. From a new discovery in science to a new method of combating or applying Socialism, there is no movement of note which can take place in any part of the globe without powerfully affecting masses of people in Europe, America, and Australia, in Asia and Africa. For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before. University of Berlin Address. I wish I could make every member of a Christian church feel that just in so far as he spends his time in quarrelling with other 6 Militant Chris tianity Militant Christianity Christians of other churches he is helping to discredit Christianity in the eyes of the world. Avoid as you would the plague those who seek to embroil you in conflict, one Christian sect with another. Not only does what I am about to say apply to the behavior of Christians towards one another, but of all Christians towards their nonChristian brethren, towards their fellowcitizens of another creed.-Address at the American Mission in Khartum. Respect for American Women I always thought that the American was a pretty good fellow. I think his wife is still better, and, great though my respect for the man from America has been, my respect for the woman has been greater.—Ibid. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads-you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil; Push off, and sitting well in order smite TENNYSON'S Ulysses. |