DIVISION G SOCIAL CULTURE 



(Hall 5, September 20, 10 a. TO.) 



SPEAKER: HONORABLE WILLIAM T. HARRIS, United States Commissioner of 

 Education. 



SOCIAL CULTURE IN THE FORM OF EDUCATION 

 AND RELIGION 



BY WILLIAM TORREY HARRIS 



[William Torrey Harris, Educator and Commissioner of Education of the United 

 States, since 1889. b. North Killingly, Connecticut, September 10, 1835. 

 A.M. Yale, 1869; LL.D. Universityof Missouri, 1870; Ph.D. Brown, 1893; LL.D. 

 Pennsylvania, 1894; ibid. Yale, 1895; ibid. Princeton, 1896; Ph.D. Jena, 1899. 

 Teacher, Principal, Assistant Superintendent of Public Schools, St. Louis, 

 1857-67 ; Superintendent, ibid. 1867-1879. At Paris Exposition, 1878, was 

 tendered honorary title of " Officier de l'Acade"mie ;" represented United 

 States Bureau of Education at International Congress of Educators, Brussels, 

 1880, and at Paris Exposition, 1889; received from French Government, 1889, 

 title, " Officier de 1'Instruction Publique." Member of Washington Academy 

 of Sciences; American Social Science Association; American Philosophical 

 Association. Author of Introduction to the Study of Philosophy; The Spiritual 

 Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia; Hegel's Logic: a book on the Genesis of the 

 Categories of the Mind; Psychologic Foundations of Education. Editor in chief 

 of numerous compilations, notable among which being Webster's International 

 Dictionary of the English Language and International Education Series (55 

 volumes).] 



ACCORDING to the ingenious and suggestive scheme of classification 

 of Arts and Science adopted by the Director and Administrative 

 Board of this International Congress, social regulation forms the sixth 

 division and social culture the seventh division of the entire pro- 

 gramme. Social regulation is made to include as sub-topics, politics, 

 jurisprudence, and social science, while social culture includes educa- 

 tion and religion. Politics and jurisprudence have to do with the 

 state, while social science is conceived as including for its objects the 

 civil community in its industrial, municipal, and family groups, and 

 in its providential and protective aspects. 



Social culture, on the other hand, is the common name or title for 

 the two branches of theory and practice that deal with the self- 

 development of the individual under the direction of the church and 

 the school. 



This is our division, the seventh and last in the entire scheme 

 of classification, and it is the topic of this hour's discussion to 

 consider the unity of education and religion. 



