Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Engineering Hall (1894) (and Inauguration of President Draper) [PAGE 39]

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i .i\ i RSI'i N <>i- ILLINOIS. DlFFEREN l EDUCA NONAL FOR< I D I

The age is intensely Industrial, commercial md j tical An education which docs not glor) In this fa< t and pi motit is a weak and poor education. The people will not, and they ought not, accept a system of education which lives only in the past, which dreams and s\ culal if and involve

and mystifies. They will have a system of edu Ltion which can stem the deep and swelling current of our m< rn life, and which applies to matters in which tin are inter jted. But an education which is wholly intent upon mon y is also a very one-sided education, and the people will not, as th ought not, accept that either. There are some educational operations and lnflu< ices which act directly and quickly upon life and vocation. The\ are apparent upon the surface of things and produce money quickly. There are others which are more obscur which act indirectly and with less energy. Yet they may produce results which, in the long run, count more heavily in the affairs of life. In time they may even produce more mone\ and are more than likely to produce that which i mnot be valued in money. They cultivate the taste, they train th judgment, they germinate thought, they control the passions and stimulate the ambitions. W e cannot do without any of

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There are sciences which act quickly and sharply upon the activities of life. But the whole of God's truth i not to be revealed in a day, and therefore there are scien< s which are more occult and reach conclusions more slowly Tl are sciences of sciences, which ascertain facts that rill 1 be available in coming years, or, possibly, o n | \ to some seekei for the truth in another generation; yet the end which (hex do gain in the slow process of time may be a hi-h.Mi J

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it may have more weight m unfolding the trutl Almighty and working out the harmonious evolutioi masses than others which seem more; apparent to us.

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