THE

PENNSYLVANIA

SCHOOL JOURNAL.

VOLUME LII.

That which makes a good Constitution must keep it, viz.: men of wisdom and virtue:
qualities that, because they descend not with worldly inheritance, must be carefully
propagated by a virtuous education of youth.-WM. PENN.

N. C. SCHAEFFER, EDITOR.

LANCASTER, PA.
WICKERSHAM PRINTING CO.

1903.

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HE recent remarks of Mr. Carnegie in London about the pre-eminence of America in industry, and about the single particular in which England is superior, are curiously illustrative both of the strength and the defects of his intelligence. He said, apparently, that the United States had distanced the United Kingdom in every way but one. Our manufactures he estimated to be three times more valuable than hers, our exports are greater, our natural resources are enormously more vast, our territory will support an immensely greater population. He disparaged England's colonial possibilities. Australia seemed to him a mere rind around an empty interior. South Africa was not a white man's country, and Canada's only chance for a future lay in union with the Americans. "But as the land of the spirit," he said, "the land of Shakespeare and Milton, we all do homage to you. There your supremacy will always remain. When we come here we feel in this gentle, quiet atmosphere that it is this and not America that produced Shakespeare, our common king. Shakespeare has been more to me than my Bible. The birthplace of Shakespeare is to me the most sacred spot in the world, more sacred than the Holy Sepulchre itself. Shakespeare taught me more than all other books put together. I have dreamed of that birthplace all my life." If Mr. Carnegie sees in Shakespeare the world's greatest prophet, it is evident that he does not know religion. If Stratford is to him the most sacred spot on earth, it is evident that he has not learned all that Shakespeare knew, nor got out of Shakespeare's writings all that is in them. It is a curious limitation of an exceedingly acute and potent intelligence, yet not one that need excite surprise. In conversation about something or other a short time ago Mr. Carnegie let fall the information that for many years he had not found occasion to bring any of his personal needs to the attention of Providence. He is a great little man, mentally grown up, but spiritually still in pinafores. That accounts for a great deal that is noticeable in his relations with his fellows. As a disburser of millions he has had no equal in modern times. It has been computed that he has given away more than eighty-five million dollars, and he has given it wisely, too-to technical education $13,000,000, to general education and research $26,000,000, for miscellaneous objects divers other millions, besides his prodigious expenditure for libraries. And yet much as his gifts have been appreciated, much as he is respected, when it comes to drawing all men unto him" he doesn't do it. He is a great friend of peace, a great friend of learning, but he is regarded almost without emotion. After all, it is not learning, nor the library, that makes the world go round, but love. Shakespeare knew that. Mr. Carnegie, somehow, seems not to have observed it.-Harper's Weekly.

CONTENTS OF FIFTY-SECOND VOLUME.