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acquired m div.dusl ego. It aI>,. fam i|„.<9
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has a profound influence upon the the best of „
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Oregon School Libraries, Lecture
BY J . A. EDGERTON.
acts of his life, f it is ,he Socia' '
’ ,ndlvlduRl|y. if not
and E ntertainm ents.
Altruistic, H uman E g o 1
’’ i * l’roduct <>f the virtues which
^ I heke is nothing will live so long as
• W
our ancestors have bequeathed to A Speech by p ^ f . T . B. W akem an , of the L I.
eral U n iv e rs ity , S ilv e rto n . Oregon, durln
As the years go rolling on.
w
’
• us- d«*P>'e our tendency to create
It comes irresistibly, like the light
Get
a“ »
° n “ SChO° ' L ,b r- r ‘es. How t
" e are speaking of that species new habits for ourselves to wrest
Get and How to Use th e m .” a t th e Orego
r i i ^ nVnie Pearly gates of dawn,
S tate Teacher s Association, held at th
1 11 ^bright6 W° rld WitH k8 pre8ence of cerebral sensibility which mover ourselves from the bonds’of hered-
apltol at Salem , Decmbr 28, 1899.
both man and anim als to seek th. ity, and to build up in ourselves
While the hosts of evil in wild affright,
de ......'
And minions of wrong, like shapes of company of their v congeners,
ndependent
good
v o genw e, to
IO ae-
- r i m n i i o originality?
rig in a lity f T The
h e good
J’rof. John B. Horner presented a ver
night,
rive satisfaction from Iheir m u tu a l. inst'ncts which we may have do
a .le paj>er on this subject, and Pro*
Have fled away and are gone.
relations, to love others, and to de- ” e obtain them from the spirit of G. A. Gregory ami J. M. M artindal
Ihere is nothing on earth that is half so [ X n ‘°m be f ' T i
° th erS - U i s i - he Ceht' ,r y ' frOm ,h e cold
I followed m discussion, and then Prof
strong
altruism, of. winch the first stage is j'" g » f >he day, which analyses the " akeman took part as follows;—
As the cause th at is built on Truth.
It may seem to die at the hands of wrong
indnese and the last devotion: | motives and the effects of all acts M r . P resident and F ellow T each ­
But time goes on and the years are lung;’
It will come again, like the poet’s song,
e most powerful physiological and mathematically calculates its
ers of O regon ;
io live in immortal youth.
Impulse next to egoism, although it | interests?
No, we receive them
Can any good thing come out of
IS only an indirect form of egoism. . fro'n our predecessors. We are | Nazareth,” which may be inter­
o love and to be loved, next to honest, proper, and loving because preted in Western dialect: Can any
eating, drinking, and acting, is the our fathers and grandfathers were good thing come out of New York?
re need of children. It remains
Otherwise, how could the nat- From the many accounts of politi­
intense to the age of puberty, and i ur»li»l and the Freethinker exDlain cal and other corruption, the ex­
j ? 2 J " Ur 10 the day "hen the in- the flagrant contradiction which tremes of wealth and monopoly,
dividual enters into the arena of exists between his conduct and his
shaded by extremes of dependence
serious life. I n the old man who reasoning?
He sees only brute and misery, you might be tempted
has no longer any of the cares of reality, he establishes the sad truth,
to say, nothing good, nothing we
Mow Social Science S ettles the existence, it resumes its rights and
deduces the consequences of it, and ought to listen to, can come from
War of the Three Egos.
sp ead s over his grandchildren. yet he is unable to free himself there. Net we cannot but remem­
In the adult, in the moments of irom the most generous aspirations ber that the important and lately
BY DR. PAUL TOPINARD.
respite which the struggle leaves »f his altruism. He places friend­ introduced plan of “Public School
h im , it is his repose, refuge, and ship in the front rank and practices Saving Banks, ’ admirably present­
.
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o*'» «Hu
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-- '- * * *• *1 rv «11
N every individual, as we have recompense. How sad life would i M ’hy? Because the spirit of
ed to ur this morning by Prof. R.
bp nithnn«
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endeavored to show, conduct be
without friendships!
In the v:____
his ancestors is perpetuated in him, D. Resseler, came from Long la-
is the outcome of three fac­ bosom of his family the wife satis­ because he is their continuation. land City, New York. Nor can we
tors. The first is the ego which is fies the needs of the heart rather Yves Guyot, who professes egoism !
that the contest which woi
inherent in the animal and exists than those of the senses. The hus­ as the sole principle of individual for our country and us the Publi.
in man as in all animals—with band, who is less faithful in the conduct in society, writes as fol- Sch°°l system was largely, if no
this difference, that man having second regard, is loyal as to the lows: “ When I see a child beaten, chieflY> fougbt out in New York
more intelligence, this ego assumes first. Man undoubtedly domestic­ and hear it cry, when I see a w o - lw^len William H. Seward, after
in him a high authority. It is the ated the dog by altruism, and every man weeping, when la m the wit-1 wards Lincoln’s great Secretary o
guide and guardian of the individ­ day we see him creating bonds of ness of suffering, I am divided m to jS,tate’ wa® governor, and Horae
ual, it has no object but the needs attachm ent to himself in the most two persons. Another ego feels I (’reeley,the principal editor in tha
of the individual and their satis­ different kind of animals by simply these pains. . . . All my fibers , State* Thence followed the plai
faction, it is devoted entirely to asking for reciprocity. Altruism is are set in vibration; the old blood ■ furn,'8b«ng free school books tf
these objects; it is egoism incar­ the first source of sociability, as we of the soldier, the corsair, the h u n t-! lll° 8Cbolars, to be kept by them
nate. I his is the anim al ego which have already demonstrated, and it er, which runs in my veins, seethes and their families upon leaving the
we have portrayed in such somber is its consecration under its mul- within me. .
My instincts | i 8chooJ’ * as «eips
heIP8 io family educa
educa­
—
unuer us niui- ' 111' “ 1
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colors. The second
factor
is
the
.
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tIple forms of kindness, indulgence, imPeI
nie to act.” He speaks tion"
tion. Then
1 hen next
next followed
followed in
in fur
fur-
product of habits of feeling, think- tolerance, self-deuial, sympathy,
It is no longer the egoist ther aid of educatio« the establish
mg, and acting as they are formed chanty, generosity, devotion. This who >8 talking, but the altruist by ment of a 8rna11« ««eful and inter
m ancestors and bequeathed to the 18 the reason why, in spite of all heredity.
* esting school library in each dis
individual in the shape of predis- ,he objections which may be raised
The establishing, or re-establish tr'Ct Pardon the8e allusions
position, which when confronted to assisting the unfortunate, no ing, of the customs which“ re S
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the beginnings of things, because ;
th conditions similar to those VOICe 18 ever raised against it, and adapted to social hanniness and wish to make some suggestions upoi
winch have engendered them, are «»at there is no difference o, opin- their progressive c o n s o E o n £ the motion before us, which is t<
. i priately developed and have ° n except as to the means. It is heredity; the ego w ith m o
limit school libraries in this stat<
ighty influence on the acts of the only physiological force which acting automatically in t h . d * " ^ ’ to Dictionaries, books of Reference
", weighty
the individual.
individ..., This „ the
ance8. can check in the organism itself the tion which X e t y d e ^ H t o b ' T T
the
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Classics, and such magazines and
tral ego. The third is the product impulses of egoism and the many best; the individual shaped by man papers as will conduce to the mor­
of the habits of the individual him- secondary forms which egoism as- as he shapes a plant or an animal al« and welfare of the scholars.
acquired during infancy and SUme8-
¡conformably ,o the needs of society, This is the substance of the resolu­
the course of his life, depending on
jusdee as the regulator, and love as tion. Of course it will be merely
is maternal and primary educa­
tion
j .
’."i
“ ith these two elements, aitru- *»e ’deal
such, in fine, is our advisory to the school authorities
_.1 «1.
ting on
bt^has associC?m,r
T
Wh0“ i8maS the » - ’-habits and social 8yi,e“ -
that be, but coming from this body
pies which h a v /h UP° n , 8 e3tam' | instincts as the means, the desired
Herbert Spencer, who concludes it may have a weight that will
the meihods of T
Wil'
S‘t8ined- What 1
" ” e d° re«ardi"* «»’ necessity of make it a law; and that is doubt­
lug to W hich h t'ng a>
nd ? " ‘k' for’ What 1 wkh to see s e,,eralized developing altruism and certain less why it is moved by Prof. Mar­
»¡»seif u " n i e h/ S abah°dr : d in 80<:ie‘y - wi‘» ^ y one jo in in g ' hereditary habits, is wrong “ h " tindale.
»a« formed a t ,'hea?nWh,Ch ’
ob,ain il>i a '’« n0‘ Precisely what expressions of despair at the dose
The first question is, does it go
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far enough? It excludes any speci­
T h is „ , b ,
„ „ „ b In o p , bliJ
men and representative works of
the vast mass of living literature
There is nothing can live but what is
good,
Nor trium ph but what is just.
r he sword in a brother’s gore imbued
b h a ll eat and corrode with ru st;
in l ii r 8pi\ ,It .of love an<1 brotherhood
\vn-i tv6 td II.8 beauty is understood;
" hile the empires founded on force and
blood
Shall crumble away in dust
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