serve in lieu of exercise and ozone, and
Princeton winks her woozy eye in innocency.

Freedom can not be bestowed--it must be achieved. Education can not be
given--it must be earned. Lincoln did not free the slaves--he only freed
himself. The Negroes did not know they were slaves, and so they had no
idea of what freedom meant. Until a man wants to be free, each kind of
freedom is only another form of slavery. Booker Washington is showing
the colored man how to secure a genuine freedom through useful
activity. To get freedom you must shoulder responsibility.

If college education were made compulsory by the State, and one-half of
the curriculum consisted of actual, useful manual labor, most of our
social ills would be solved, and we would be well out on the highway
towards the Ideal City.

Without animation, man is naught--nothing is accomplished, nothing done.
People who inspire other people have animation plus.

And animation plus is ecstasy. In ecstasy the spirit rushes out, runs
over and saturates all. Oratory is an ecstasy that inundates the hearer
and makes him ride upon the crest of another's ideas.

Art is born of ecstasy--art is ecstasy in the concrete. Beautiful music
is ecstasy expressed in sound, regulated into rhythm, cadence and form.
"Statuary is frozen music," said Heine.

A man who is not moved into ecstasy by ecstasy is hopeless. A people
that has not the surging, uplifting, onward power that ecstasy gives, is
decadent--dead.

The Negro is easily moved to ecstasy. Very little musical training makes
him a power in song. At Tuskegee the congregational singing is a feature
that, once heard, is never to be forgotten. Fifteen hundred people
lifting up their hearts in an outburst of emotion--song! Fifteen hundred
people of one mind, doing anything in unison--do you know what it means?
Ecstasy is essentially a matter of sex. In art and religion sex can not
be left out of the equation. The simple fact that in forty years the
Negro race in America has increased from four million to ten million
tells of their ecstasy as a people. "Only happy beings reproduce
themselves," says Darwin. Depress your animal and it ceases to breed; so
there are a whole round of animals that do not reproduce in captivity.
But in slavery or freedom the Negro sings, and reproduces--he is not
doomed nor depressed--his soul arises superior to circumstance.

Without animation, education is impossible. And the problem of the
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