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heads, and the love of nature into their hearts. It 

 means that in education there shall be no diplomatic 

 evasions, no selfish secrecy, and no lying propagandism. 

 That the masses shall be entrusted with all the power 

 of knowledge they can receive and utilize to their own 

 salvation and welfare. That to fight the battles of 

 life they shall not be clad in superstition's rags, nor 

 decked with falsehood's paper caps and make-believe 

 arms of out-worn tradition; but clothed in wholesome 

 truth, and armed with stern realities. 



The obligation to give the common people these of- 

 fensive and defensive weapons lies on the princes of 

 scholarship; on science, and on the church! 



Intellectual cooperation and the submission to in- 

 tellectual leadership, can come only through this 

 larger measure of intellectual democracy and larger 

 measure of mutual confidence, whose source is the com- 

 mon understanding of a common purpose. This un- 

 derstanding must be based on a community of ideals; 

 on an intelligent sympathy with the aims and methods 

 of modern scholarship, using that term in its broad- 

 est sense. It must be based on a disciplined imagina- 

 tion growing out of a broader time and space perspec- 

 tive, and a stronger conviction of the benevolent neu- 

 trality and immutability of natural laws. 



That kind of imagination can come only through 

 some elemental concept of world-progress, physical 

 and spiritual; some basic knowledge of cosmic, or- 

 ganic, and social evolution; of Astronomy, Geology, 

 Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, and the parts they 

 have played in the remote past, and are now playing in 

 the great creative movements of today. 



No man without these basic concepts has today a 



