rows actual results. We
are not contending for an education that looks practical. We are
contending merely for education that will be true and beautiful and
natural. It will be practical the way the forces of nature are
practical--whether any one notices it or not.

The following announcement can already be seen on the bulletin boards of
universities around the world(--if looked for twice).

THEY ARE COMING! O Shades of Learning, THE LOVERS OF JOY, IMPERIOUS WITH
JOY, UNCONQUERABLE!

Their Sails are Flocking the East.

The High Seas are Theirs.

They shall command you, overwhelm you. Book-lubbers, paper-plodders,
shall be as though they were not. The youth of the earth shall be
renewed in the morning, the suns and the stars shall be unlocked, and
the evening shall go forth with joy. The mountains shall be freed from
the pick and the shovel and the book, and lift themselves to heaven.
Flowers shall again outblossom botanies, and gymnasts of music shall be
laid low, and Birds Through An Opera Glass shall sing. Joy shall come to
knowledge, and the strength of Joy upon it. THEY ARE COMING, O Ye Shades
of Learning, a thousand thousand strong. Their sails flock the Sea. The
smoke and the throb of their engines is the promise of the east. The
days of thirteen-thousand-ton, three-horse-power education are numbered.

X

A Note

It is one of the danger signs of the times that the men who have most
closely observed our modern life, in its social, industrial, artistic,
educational, and religious aspects seem to be gradually coming to the
point where they all but take it for granted in considering all social,
industrial, and educational and political questions, that the conditions
of modern times are such, and are going to be such that imagination and
personality might as well be dropped as practical forces--forces that
must be reckoned with in the movement of human life. Nearly all the
old-time outlooks of the Soul, as they stand in history, have been taken
for factory sites, bought up by syndicates, moral and otherwise, and are
being used for chimneys. Nothing but smoke and steel and wooden Things
come out of them. Poets and brokers are both telling us on every hand
that imagination is impossible and personality incredible in modern
life.

Imagination and personality are the spirit and the dust out of which all
great nations and all great religions are made.

The attempt has been made in the foregoing pages to point