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Show HADLEY POINTS OUT THE DUTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL Warns Against the Dangerous Spirit of Isolation and j Evils of Money Worship. NEW YORK, March 13. In an address ad-dress here before a large audience in the Broadway Tabernacle, Dr. Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale, pointed out the dangers of "money worship" and a laxity In public conscience. "It Is only within the last fifty years," he said, "that we have really begun to feel the consequences of the appeal to private Judgment as a stand- . ard of right and of the toleration of Individual In-dividual liberty In thought as well as in action. "Freedom Is a good thing, toleration Is a good thing; but when freedom and toleration are carried so far that a man withdraws within himself with the worn-out excuse, "Am I my brother's keeper?' his own efforts at personal salvation, sal-vation, however well meant, are brought to naught. "Amid the daily contact of men, habits hab-its of thought, standards of value, subtle sub-tle influences In the estimate of right und wrong pass from man to man quietly and unconsciously. By this subtle contact a sort of public conscience con-science is created. The difficulty of keeping our standards of business and of politics pure today Is. I think, greater great-er than it has been In any previous generation. The task of convincing people in a democracy that liberty brings duties us well as rights is harder hard-er than the corresponding task under an aristocracy. "Our industrial machinery and our political machinery are both excellent In their way, but no industrial or political po-litical machinery, however good, can take the place of public spirit and self-devotion. self-devotion. "Here Is the great vital need for the church: Not to make the American people law abiding and intelligent: that it Is already: not even to make It kindly kind-ly and courteous and Industrious; these virtues we have, if not in ideal measure, meas-ure, at any rate sufficiently for the practical purpose of life; but to fight with all its heart and with all Its soul that dangerous spirit of selfish Isolation which encourages a man to take whatever what-ever the law allows and most approves the man who has taken most. "There must be a sense that power Is a trust and not a privilege, that life Is to be valued not for what It enables us to get out of people, but for what it en-iibles en-iibles us to give to people in the way of service." |