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...lives are all handed in, they will be bound and kept in some accessible place, open to the inspection of the class only. The importance of these records may now seem but trifling, yet in after years, when many of those little items which give our college life its ideal character are forgotten, the wisdom of preserving an account of each individual college course will be most clearly demonstrated. Should there chance to be among us any Johnson, in these class lives, if reasonable care be bestowed upon them, will be found his Boswell...
...lecture was upon the practical results of the previous discussions. The ideal of society is not the greatest happiness as a sum, but the greatest organization of society. But where do we find examples of our ideal? First, in the social organization that exist among the co-workers in natural science, where every man of them all is free, yet every man works as if the whole army of co-workers were under the orders of a single leader. A similarly ideal condition of organization is reached from time to time in the history of great movements, political or religious...
...much for examples of approximations to the ideal. Now what can be done by individuals to help towards the attainment of the ideal? After a few suggestions about the training of personal character for the benefit of society, the lecturer went on to discuss the social tendencies that help and that hinder the realization of this organic ideal. Conservatism, the lecturer thought, is often a direct help to progress, because conservatism insists that progress shall be rationally comprehensible, and so organized. Conservatism represents the tendency to think new experiences in old forms, and so to continue definite habits of thought...
...lecture, after a brief review of the previous discussions, passed to the special question of the evening, a comparison of the Socialistic and Utilitarian moral ideals. The moral ideal of socialism views society as an organism, to be labored for as a whole, as a "body fitly framed together." The moral ideal of utilitarianism views society as a mass of individuals, whose happiness is to be treated as a mere aggregate or sum, this sum being rendered as large as possible. Which of these ideals is the right...
...lecture closed with acceptance, its most general form of the moral ideal of the socialistic movements; but postponed any more concrete practical application until the next time. The final lecture of the course will be given on Monday, on "Practical Consequences of the Moral Ideal of Socialism...