Caption: Convocation - 1942 Winter-Spring
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I Thoroi n< \ hl\ study tx nprehend the m ming of I mid ! 1. definable permanent traits 2. its orig ns r 3. i s formal institutions tnd institutions ? 4. its histor\ its impn ss upon the personal character of its citi ns nomic and s cial success* 1 failun ultimate urn md obj< is local, national. I interna! -nab Such study v\ uld require a long and elaborate scries oi tulle 1 n pursue onlj a few of these pathways a very short distance Tl pe ncnt traits : the democratic outlook on life are man) " and p ly to each of us s me one f those traits is especially d \fn lecture was announced 1 received a postcard, reading: IX r Prof. 1 IRNBAUM : 1 believe that democracy is man's noblest political expn > oi n his em] > justif) a faith in human nature. What do you believe? A STUDENT I heartily agree that that is one of the permanent characteristics oi Dem< cracy. The only thing that struck me as not quite democratic about that card was that it was anonymous.) Certainly " T r u s t your Fellowman" is a democratic motto. Another permanent democratic ideal is self-reliance. The true dem :rat prefers freedom, though threatened with privation and danger. I security and prosperity bestowed by benevolent despotism. American literature is insistent upon the value of an out-and-out individual MIL 1 [ear Emerson: \i tl single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide. th hn world will come around to him. Wh< would be a man must be a non-conformist. Hear Walt W h i t m a n : Wh« lo ; u sup] will itisfy the soul—except to walk free and own no sii] r? They < • hoed by Squire Perkins to-day, saying: No two fellows is alike, an' both of 'em is gl I oi it ! Faith in on fellowman self-reliance, and individualism are not the nly i tnent traits of h e m racy; but the\ are probably the m< t * * I * 6. 7. important. The tap-rool of Democracy is Christianity. A religion which d < ed the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. was uei or later bound lo result in democratic political and social rela tioi hi; . I 'In- Bibh aid I >aniel Webster,
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