Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . hat knew Lincolnwhen he was a lad and a youth and a young man—but all thewhile there was springing up in him as if he were connectedwith the very soil itself, the sap of a nation, the vision of a 314 THE SOCIAL CENTER great people, a sympathy so ingrained and intimate with thecommon run of men that he was like the People impersonated,sublimated, touched with genius. And it is to such sourcesthat he must always look. No man can calculate the courses of genius, no man canforetell the leadership of nations. And so we must see to it
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . hat knew Lincolnwhen he was a lad and a youth and a young man—but all thewhile there was springing up in him as if he were connectedwith the very soil itself, the sap of a nation, the vision of a 314 THE SOCIAL CENTER great people, a sympathy so ingrained and intimate with thecommon run of men that he was like the People impersonated,sublimated, touched with genius. And it is to such sourcesthat he must always look. No man can calculate the courses of genius, no man canforetell the leadership of nations. And so we must see to itthat the bottom is left open, we must see to it that the soil ofthe common feeling of the common consciousness is alwaysfertile and unclogged, for there can be no fruit unless the rootstouch the rich sources of life. And it seems to me that the schoolhouses dotted here, there,and everywhere, over the great expanse of this nation, willsome day prove to be the roots of that great tree of libertywhich shall spread for the sustenance and protection of
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