Show STUDENT LIFE 152 knows that he cannot "drink deep” And zvhy should he not taste the waters of knowledge whenever and wherever the opportunity affords even if not permitted by reason of circumstances to drink his full at the fountain since all knowledge is fruitful and profitable? The ultimate end to be attained through the acquirement of knowledge is wisdom for without wisdom a man is like a ship at sea without a rudder uncontrolled and uncontrollable and "wasting his life in and unavailing effort He is indeed educated who has combined wisdom with knowledge since knowledge only makes it possible to be wise and wisdom properly directs and applies knowledge Some have supposed that a learned man must necessarily be a very wise man But that is not true Knowledge is accompanied by folly perhaps more frequently than by wisdom He who has acquired a knowledge of natural laws sufficient to enable him to know and understand the obligations and duties of life and thereupon conform his life to those laws has achieved wisdom There are limits to the compass of the human mind as well as to the period of the mortal existence of man and it is impossible that the sum of all knowledge and wisdom can be attained by any one person Specialization is necessary and thereby also the general store of learning in the wror!d is increased by the aggregate result of the labors of different observers perusing their several lines of study The value of the work of a human life is to be measured by the single standard of success By this I mean success in its true sense as interpreted in the light of the real objects and purposes of existence Unless it can be said of a man or woman who has lived and died that in some way and in some degree the world mis-direct- ed has been benefited by his or her life such a person has not made a success in life but a failure And this proposition may be taken as true: all earnest and honest effort put forth for the accomplishment of some good and proper purpose which in the doing necessarilv and inherently a and discipline tends to strengthening of character and a broadening of the understanding whereby one becomes better qualified to perform the duties of citizenship and to sustain the responsibilities imposed by natural laws may be accepted as tending to crown one's life with success and such effort made habitually and with definite purpose must necessarily produce results w’hich in time wrill be seen and felt by men All such endeavor falls into the mass of human effort and in addition to the direct benefits conferred upon the individual adds to the world’s potential forces along the line of its direction The student who has devoted his life to the solution of some great problem in science or the discovery of an unknown law of nature whose effects are seen but not understood may fail to solve the problem or to make the discovery because of limitations of capacity or environment but his work will not be lost As he has availed himself of the labors of those who have preceded him on the same line of investigation so will those who follow find themselves by reason of his w’ork so much nearer to the goal and the student himself by reason of his work and purpose will have lived a better and stronger life Everywhere in nature the truth lies hidden It has never changed but has only been obscured The great law which regulates and controls the existence and motions of all the bodies of the solar and sideral systems was the same thousands of years ago when men believed that the world self-contr- ol |