Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . unities. And nothing else will produce liberty—you cannot have liberty where men do not want the same lib-erty, you cannot have it where they are not in sympathy withone another, you cannot have it where they do not understandone another, you cannot have it when they are not seekingcommon things by common means, you simply cannot have it;we must study the means by which these things are produced. In the first place, dont j^ou see that you produce communi-ties by creating common feeling? I know that a great em-phasis is put upon
Our little men and women; modern methods of character building; . unities. And nothing else will produce liberty—you cannot have liberty where men do not want the same lib-erty, you cannot have it where they are not in sympathy withone another, you cannot have it where they do not understandone another, you cannot have it when they are not seekingcommon things by common means, you simply cannot have it;we must study the means by which these things are produced. In the first place, dont j^ou see that you produce communi-ties by creating common feeling? I know that a great em-phasis is put upon the mind, in our day, and as a universityman I should perhaps not challenge the supremacy of the in-tellect, but I have never been convinced that mind was reallymonarch in our day, or in any day that I have yet read of, or,if it is monarch, it is one of the modern monarchs that rulesand reigns but does not govern. MEANS TO LIBERAL EDUCATION I once made this statement, that a university was intendedto make young people just as unlike their fathers as 0 o Co PQ 312 THE SOCIAL CENTER By which I do not mean anything disrespectful to their fathers,but merely this, by the time a man is old enough to have chil-dren in college, his point of view is apt to have become sospecialized that they would better be taken away from him andput in a place where their views of life will be regeneralizedand they will be disconnected from the family and connectedwith the world. That, I understand to be the function of edu-cation, of the liberal education. Now a kind of liberal education must underlie every whole-some political and social process, the kind of liberal educationwhich connects a mans feeling and his comprehension with thegeneral run of mankind, which disconnects him from the spe-cial interests and marries his thought to the common interestsof great communities and of great cities and of great statesand of great nations, and, if possible, with that brotherhoodof man that tran
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