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...will, that a great part of human suffering had its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. Where was the remedy to be found, if remedy indeed there were? It was to be sought at least only in an improvement wrought by those moral influences that build up and buttress the personal character. Goethe taught the self-culture that results in self-possession, in breadth and impartiality of view, and in equipoise of mind. Wordsworth inculcated that self-development through intercourse with man and nature which leads to self-sufficingness, self-sustainment and equilibrium...
...connection with another passage in the same chapter, Dr. Abbott spoke of our ability ot discern good and evil. He said that man is naturally bad, and in bearing this load of evil his moral faculties are impaired. To develop this power of discernment is life's hardest task and the one upon which we must bestow our greatest care. Every familiarity with evil undermines our moral nature and strengthens the evil that is in us. On the other hand our associations with good break down the wrong and build up the right. God's aid alone is able...
...Private charity is the best means of furnishing the necessary aid, because (a) it can best ascertain the actual number of those in absolute want, and (b) by exercising a personal and moral influence it tends to strengthen the laborer's self-dependence...
...Reform depends upon the awakened intelligence and moral sense of the community, and every youth at the University who desires to know his duty as a citizen in respect to a question which seems likely soon to become the most prominent subject of debate in our national politics should be present at the meeting...
...gives a careful consideration of athletics in the University. "From the college or university point of view, athletic sports are to be promoted either as wholesome pleasures which do not interfere with work, or as means of maintaining healthy and vigorous bodies in serviceable condition for the intellectual and moral life. With athletics considered as an end in themselves, pursued either for pecuniary profit or for popular applause, a college or university has nothing to do. Neither is it an appropriate function for a college or university to provide periodical entertainments during term-time for multitudes of people...