Show before tle poly soph society the members of this society re an intellectual treat last evening in the form of a lecture delivered by bof brimhall on individual absolu tiam what is meant by thia term abao abeo Itis juet this that the individual is absolute who has that germ within himself that says there is in roe a stimulus which will send me on against all opposing currents but let it not ha judged that those essential laws chiule the child narrow this force rather does it imol it onward authority by the parents in the right direction halas this and hakea it atron eer imperialism is found in natures workings this is above authority but it is by tins the child learns if it burns its fingers imperious nature leaves her mark and sting authority is essential to life unquestioned y unquestioned obedience is the rule when why is too deep for explanation and it is this that ahafea the form of moral life morality is too end of education and right living of life in learning 13 sure when the pupil put confidence in the child the boy the youth is a child if this is not the rase t on advancement stops for where one gets 0 o that position when he say 1 I am above all others I 1 stoop to no one lie will CB sure as day find himself before ion upon a barren waste will reaca him pass him and forget him a 3 they m ve onward to la rayer the ego feels that it should tw more knows that it should learn more and baa a desire to learn more and it is this ego the absolute in man reaching out to god that puts divinity in prayer the three sources 0 growth should always be kept open for one keeps the other in ua work and besides is evil in and of and without these three full grown there can be no perfect man does absolutism in the individual rob one of the experience of the race no look at louie XIV of france and receive your answer Js it blind obedi boco to serve bod no has he s id if yon wish tho windows of baayen opened to vou asic me aud you gaall have your wish light begets light in the family tho child imbiber imbibes tha spirit of its father and mother the government of the household disciplines its mind besides its acts aud makes if progress pro grees toward the end its teachers haa in view the subject ottha ot tha government retains his individuality but when ne goes gourary to the rule ot action laid down then of he ceases to be a unit in the world in which he lives he must respect the centre around which he i evolves and not try to be a centre of himself for if this were allowed then we would be little bentres centres and everything would resolve itself into an inextricable jumble bat in yielding topias authority do we show blind obedience so only a rational obedience and it is this that helps to make the man and also lays the foundation of government noon a firmer base and is who help the advance ment of learning who bar out the alaa ash and their etty wave and by recognizing the fact that there is alwaes will above will place higher and higher the criterion of success they know that to be one consider oneself a child must place the child mind uner a au will and render unto it a 1 obedience for who becomes great but the ones that know there is something more to learn and who can leam unless he be a child the if the be little children suffer them to come unto me for theirs ie the kingdom of heaven |