22 On the Campus 



benefit his fellow men. As the Germans have it, a sick 

 man is krank, a crank; it can not be otherwise. What- 

 ever your theory of mind or soul, the only known me- 

 dium of activity is this body of ours, and only as the 

 instrument is clear and free can the thought be pure and 

 sound and true. The reasons why the philosophies of the 

 world are so absolutely futile, so contradictory in all 

 their setting forth are two; first, the subject matter at- 

 tempted transcends human knowledge; and, second, the 

 philosophers have been more often poor invalids, often 

 celibates, monks, and fathers of systems, but of nothing 

 else. I believe it is safely stated that no piece of litera- 

 ture or philosophy worth the attention of the world has 

 come from an abnormal man. 1 You must be, first of all, 

 human, and love humanity before you can portray or in 

 any wise understand, the motives and passions of a 

 human soul. 



A second valuable element in education as I would 

 present the matter this evening, is a knowledge of com- 

 mon English. No education to-day is of very much use 

 that leaves a man ignorant of good English. Whether 

 for one reason or another, English has become the im- 

 perial language of the world, and is likely to be more 

 widely powerful and serviceable as the centuries go by. 

 One-fifth of our race to-day speak English. In China 

 alone do we find any one great body of people in larger 

 numbers speaking another common tongue. But there 

 are those now living who will see English spoken over the 

 whole Chinese empire. Now think what this means. It 



1 1 do not say ' ' gains the attention of the world ; ' ' that is an- 

 other thing. Men read even Schopenhauer and Nietzsche! 



