Excerpt from A Better Era: A Baccalaureate Address Delivered at the University of Cincinnati on June 6, 1915 Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night; if ye will inquire, inquire ye. Though our own land is as peaceful as this serene morning, it is impossible for us to withhold our sympathies from the nations on the other side of the ocean who are in such deep distress. Whether we' will or not, every human instinct, every intellectual interest, ...
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Excerpt from A Better Era: A Baccalaureate Address Delivered at the University of Cincinnati on June 6, 1915 Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night; if ye will inquire, inquire ye. Though our own land is as peaceful as this serene morning, it is impossible for us to withhold our sympathies from the nations on the other side of the ocean who are in such deep distress. Whether we' will or not, every human instinct, every intellectual interest, fastens our thoughts upon the conditions there. It is useless, therefore, for us to try to think of other things, while our minds are so absorbed in the issue of these events. We may be neutral, but we cannot be indifferent. During the early months of the war, we were too awe struck to grasp the situation. Now, however, its terrible lessons are being driven home to us. Our deepest concern as students is that we make our own these fresh lessons of history and, especially, that we try to lay hold of new hope for human life. Even before the war is over, it is our duty to cut fresh channels in which the new tides of spiritual life may flow, that out of this collapse of civilization we had builded, out of this failure of all agencies which we had chosen, we may be led into a new and better era. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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