532  The  Significance  of  Education.        ^ A  Aug°usrt  wSrm" 
there  are  still,  however,  in  the  new  world  that  has  come  about,  the 
same  fundamental  standards  of  life  and  living.  Whatever  has  been 
installed  and  whatever  has  been  lost,  there  are  still  as  deeply  in- 
trenched as  ever  the  eternal  verities  that  are  the  basis  of  human 
action.  Truth  may  be  obscured,  but  it  is  not  destroyed ;  honesty  may 
be  in  eclipse,  but  it  is  only  hidden ;  personal  conduct  that  controls  the 
souls  of  men  remains  as  it  ever  was,  the  fundamental  fact  of  human 
and  social  existence.  However  much  things  seem  to  be  in  disorder 
and  standards  appear  to  be  destroyed,  at  the  bottom  there  is  still  the 
same  basis  of  human  action — action  as  an  individual  in  living  his  own 
life  for  himself,  action  in  the  individual  as  he  is  a  constituent  and 
component  part  of  the  nation  in  which  he  lives.  However  the  world 
may  change,  and  however  it  has  changed  within  your  memory  and 
mine,  this  is  the  fact  that  must  remain  still  firmly  fixed  in  our  minds, 
that  the  old  rules  of  conduct  in  the  things  of  the  mind  and  the  soul 
are  still  always  as  they  have  been,  and  that  these  new  conditions  that 
confront  us  are  often  but  the  froth  of  the  ferment,  and  the  real,  the 
fundamental  facts  of  existence  still  remain,  and  will  always  remain 
the  same.  Life,  as  we  have  said,  is  infinitely  more  than  organic  ex- 
istence. The  life  of  all  who  are  living  today  to  enter  into  its  fullest 
appreciation  is  not  only  the  life  of  the  body,  but  it  is  the  life  of  the 
soul  of  man  with  its  aspirations,  its  longings  for  results,  its  sacri- 
fices and  its  achievements,  and  the  men  and  women  who  go  out  into 
this  new  world  from  the  professional  schools  to  take  their  place  in 
it  should  be  equipped  not  only  with  a  knowledge  of  the  profession 
which  they  may  have  chosen  for  their  own,  but  equipped  also,  as  I 
think,  with  a  knowledge  of  the  value  of  the  things  of  life  to  them- 
selves as  individuals,  as  I  have  tried  to  state  it,  and  to  the  society  in 
which  they  are  to  live  and  to  act  as  its  responsible  members,  and  it 
should  not  be  forgotten  that  these  fundamental  things  that  I  have 
called  to  mind  are  the  real  conditions  of  a  rational  existence. 
An  individualism  that  thinks  only  of  self  and  a  determination 
that  has  only  self  for  its  object  is,  however,  but  half  of  the  duty  of 
man.  A  thought  of  self  is  necessary  for  self-preservation  as  a 
fundamental  fact  of  existence,  but  the  mind  that  stops  there  has  only 
realized  a  part  of  the  supreme  significance  of  life,  which  not  merely 
takes  account  of  the  individual  to  himself,  but  also  in  a  broad  and 
enlightened  spirit  makes  him  to  himself  a  constituent .  and  militant 
part  of  his  environment  and  of  his  place  in  human  society.  In  the 
background  of  it  all  is  still,  of  course,  the  professional  calling  of  the 
