"The oldest and best-endowed university in the world," Dr. Parkhurst
tells us, "is Life itself. Problems tumble easily apart in the field
that refuse to give up their secret in the study, or even in the
closet. Reality is what educates us, and reality never comes so close
to us, with all its powers of discipline, as when we encounter it in
action. In books we find Truth in black and white; but in the rush of
events we see Truth at work. It is only when Truth is busy and we are
ourselves mixed up in its activities that we learn to know of how much
we are capable, or even the power by which these capabilities can be
made over into effect."
Mr. Wilbur F. Jackman has well said: "Children always start with
imitation, and very few people ever get beyond it. The true moral act,
however, is one performed in accordance with a known law that is just
as natural as the law which determines which way a stone shall fall.
The individual becomes moral in the highest sense when he chooses to
obey this law by acting in accordance with it." Conventionality is not
morality, and may co-exist with vice as well as with virtue. Obedience
has little permanence unless it be intelligent obedience.
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