Organization in Relation to Environment 815 



The latter or Education is, as its derivation indicates, the 

 linking together, when occasion arises, of several stimuli into 

 a compounded resultant that can be so set free or led oid as 

 a motor stimulus that it guides each individual how best to 

 act under a given condition or relation. 



The former supplies us with stores of information as to 

 the character, aims, methods, and tendencies of our neighbors 

 in the widest sense, as well as with countless data regarding 

 the universe. The latter enables us to reach conclusions as 

 to how best we should act in relation to our neighbor, and 

 as to us and them in relation to the highest and best forces 

 of the universe. Now it is an absolutely true and is also an 

 appalling fact that, while the minds of our children and our 

 own minds are filled and have been filled often to overflowing 

 with instructional facts as to the arithmetic, the geography, 

 the history, the linguistics, the chemistry, the physics, and 

 the biology of the world, they are left largely undeveloped as 

 to the daily and hourly relation of each human being to his 

 or her neighbor. Individuals and society are being more and 

 more constrained by laws, acts, regulations that are set down 

 in the civil statute books, but the fundamental wellsprings 

 of highest human thought and action are largely left unculti- 

 vated. But we need not wonder at this, so long as the law of 

 competition holds a strong place. 



This is in part to be explained when we remember that 

 human history is too often studied, not as a living moving 

 procession of individuals whose words and actions — whose 

 whole careers in fact — should be replete with lessons for the 

 future, but rather as a pictorial human canvas, painted to 

 attract the eye and to tickle the lower cogitic nature, or to 

 exercise the mind in linking dates by connecting these with 

 passing events. Seldom indeed in any classroom are broad 

 fundamental rules of moral and religious conduct deduced 

 from the lives of the leading, not to say the minor, characters 

 of history. 



So instruction abundantly increases as science invades new 

 fields of inquiry, but education lingers while conflicting moral- 



