St. Louis - The Fourth City, Volume 2 by Walter Barlow Stevens

Author:Walter Barlow Stevens [Stevens, Walter Barlow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, Midwest (IA; IL; IN; KS; MI; MN; MO; ND; NE; OH; SD; WI), General
ISBN: 9783849659318
Google: fwUIEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2020-11-10T00:42:53+00:00

It seems to me also to augur, or at least to merit success for the institution inaugurated, that, while it is in especial sympathy with the masses, and aims to bless labor with culture, and unite in happy combination the speculative and scientific with the great practical issues of popular education, it is also placed on a broad and liberal basis on which men of different ecclesiastical or political schools can labor together. Such joint action for a noble object is, through its unitive influence, a public benefit as well as an augury of success.

But though the institution is by its character pledged to be unpartisan and unsectarian, God forbid it should ever be unpatriotic or unchristian. And I am happy to believe there is a common ground on which, though with different partisan and ecclesiastic names and symbols, we can stand together in the great work of national education, without compromising or discarding those great and vital truths and principles, religious and political, which must constitute the ultimate warp and woof of all valuable culture and character. The tendency among us unquestionably has been too much toward division and subdivision in educational enterprises; until society is resolved into fragments so minute that hardly any one is strong enough to establish for itself a respectable system of institutions.

I am far from affirming that institutions distinctively ecclesiastic have not place and position, and are not doing a great and good work in American society. But while experiments are being made all around us, of institutions of that description, I am gratified to see in our young city an effort of such promise to establish a university on a catholic and general basis, on which fellow-citizens whose walk in life may be in other respects somewhat different, can unite. I believe such an institution has at this epoch in our history, a great, a good, a necessary work to do Should this enterprise succeed as it promises, we may regard it as in some measure inaugurative of a new educational era among us.

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