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lead it in peace ; a Grant to lead it in war ; a Wash 

 ington to lead it in war and peace. 



But what we need as a nation, as an individual, at 

 the ordinary times which are so much larger in the 

 aggregate than the extraordinary times, and upon 

 our conduct in which really depends our conduct in 

 extraordinary times, are the commonplace virtues 

 which we all recognize, and which when we were 

 young we wrote about in copybooks, and which, if 

 we practice, will count for a thousand times more in 

 the long run than- any brilliance and genius of any 

 kind or sort whatsoever. 



I want to say just a word on the other side of the 

 two great questions, the legislative and educational 

 questions. Education must be twofold. Of course if 

 we do not have education in the school, the academy, 

 the college, the university, and have it developed in 

 the highest and wisest manner, we shall make but a 

 poor fist of American citizenship. One of the things 

 that is most hopeful in our Republic is the way in 

 which the State has taken charge of elementary edu 

 cation ; and the way in which, in the East through 

 private gift, here in the West through the wise liber 

 ality of the several States, the higher education has 

 been taken care of, as in your own University of 

 Minnesota. But such education can never be all. It 

 can never be more than half, and sometimes not that. 

 Nothing can take the place of the education of the 

 home; and that education must be largely the un 

 conscious influence of character upon character. 

 There is no use in the father trying to instil wise 



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