Music Is Intended And Designed

On The One Hand, Society Needs A Common Faith And Vigorous Institutions With The Power To Coerce; And On The Other, The Individual As A Human Soul Or As The Bearer Of A New And Possibly Saving Heresy, Must Be Free. It Is Difficult Enough To Reconcile These Two Needs, But The Problem Holds Another Hazard: The Need Of Action Under The Pressure Of Time.

Schools Are Not Intended To Moralize A Wicked World, But To Impart Knowledge And Develop Intelligence, With Only Two Social Aims In Mind: Prepare To Take On One's Share In The World's Work, And Perhaps In Addition, Lend A Hand In Improving Society, After Schooling Is Done.

We Are Accustomed To The Artist Scoundrel Or Specialist In Vice, And Unaccustomed To The Creator In Whom Passion And Reason And Moral Integrity Hold In Balance. But Greatness Of Intellect And Feeling, Or Soul And Conduct - Magnanimity, In Short - Does Occur; It Is Not A Myth For Boy Scouts, And Its Reality Is Important, If Only To Give Us The True Range Of The Term "human," Which We So Regularly Define By Its Lower Reaches.

A Man Who Has Both Feet Planted Firmly In The Air Can Be Safely Called A Liberal As Opposed To The Conservative, Who Has Both Feet Firmly Planted In His Mouth.

It Seems A Long Time Since The Morning Mail Could Be Called Correspondence.