Show t GEMS FROM NOTE BOOK BY nr A A. M M. r. r IF The coming next Sunday of Edward Edard Howard Griggs to Ogden den drove me the other day to an oM oll note book In In- which I recorded several years ears ago o gems of thought and wisdom as ns they toll fell from the tho lips Ups of or this great scholar who a. a the tho time was professor of ethics at Stanford university SURPRISE I GI GnEI I recall that I regarded re Pro Pro- Professor Professor fessor GrIggs at that time aa as a avery avery avery very wonderful man but that I had a feeling that I was S I not absorbing a great deal from his hi lectures It was a rather pleasant surprise therefore the other day y In going over the note book to find thoughts that I have been thinking and expressing for tor years and which therefore must have have- ha come directly from Irom the tho teachings of this great teacher Not ot only Is Professor Griggs a a. great student and teacher leacher but he heIs heIs heis Is one of the finest personalities with which I ever came In con con- tact I recommend that all Og Og- Ogden den people who can cart meet and hear Professor ProCessor Griggs I glue herewith just a few thoughts from the old note book J KIAT JI DAY 1 1 II J I IASIn I S. SIn In the middle ages Ideas cf of c I IliCe life liCe and living were very differ differ- different different ent to our own They The looked upon the body bod as a mortal enemy to the tho soul What hat the body re required re- re required required the soul despised If one expected to live happily In a Ju- Ju future u- u ture turc state he must not live lire now This was not the universal view however as Is evidenced uy by bythe the fact that Dante Danto stands out s sone one who took the opposite view Virtue consisted to a large ex ex- extent extent extent tent In the Puritan character In Innot Innot innot not doing wrong Their conscious conscIous- consciousness ness of sin was hard cruel cruel hard nar nar- row A man who does not do wrong stands for nothing One must be bo good for something Not Notto Notto ot otto to do o wrong Is but one condition of To bo be moral 5 means to de positively the highest and best belt life liCe possible In harmony harmon with God The called so-called Golden Rule Rulo Is 15 Isso isso so 80 because it Is not a rule at all aU It does not tell you exactly what iou rou can or cannot do RIGHT TO PUNISH U USHA A parent has no right to lo pun- pun punish punish ish a child because it Is his It Isn't Int his in the sense that It is 18 his property It is iiI his in that It Itis ItIs Itis is his opportunity his The only reason that he can punish it It is because he Is the Interpreter of the moral uni uni- universe universe verse erse to the child He has hail absolutely absolutely absolutely no other excuse All work In science depends upon Inconceivable able assumptions This thought was illustrated by b our assumption of the atom atom atom- JIeh ue we really cannot eon elvce AVe We can conceive of nothing which cannot be further divided j i I. I r- r It Is made up of parts All sciences grow difficult as we go jn while n-while while all are easy casy if f studied superficially ti 1 i r Education does not mean tho the fitting one for an anY particular In n n. world but t the In development de of personality j harmony with the tho universe Virtue means to live life stead stead- steadily steadIly ily fly and wholly I Life LICe is made up of two arcs arcs arcs- love and duty It may be that i nine of 10 things we wo do may ma b be bedone done because we love lo to but the th I tenth time we stop and think we ought to do I u D GEn Cf fl I The menace to a free govern govern- government government ment like our own is not In a at afew few anarchists anarchist etc atc t but in the horde r of unthinking re rebut people who are a but as all clay y in the tho hand of an unscrupulous dema- dema t gog go gog If If It was possible for a preil- preil dent such as Lincoln to make such a I deep Impression almost impression almost a l change of character of a whole hole nation of adults how adults how much re r. r re possible for Cor a 0 teacher to Impress a i small group of oC children Justice without the heart of love ove is 18 cruelty Love is the tho one ona great greot reat saving sa power Of the verse erse It Is the perpetual miracle of human existence Oriental religions Ions favored ored re- re retirement re retirement for spiritual and elevation elc but It was as Impractical impractical Ical from the fact that ones one's e evil imaginings are usually much worse than the real external evils A man of unusual strength of character such as Thomas A might live such lIuch a II life but it Is exceedingly dangerous to o most men mn Wisdom and char char- character character character acter are only healthfully healthful broad- broad broadly broady ly y and strongly developed by com com- comIng Ing ng in contact with men ant an women U i SC PUNISHMENT T The completeness of punish punish- punishment punishment punishment ment depends upon the complete complete- completeness com ness with which the childs child's attl- attl attitude tude ude is made to harmonize with he the punishment If 1 three fourths of the punishments were taken out of or the tho home and ond the school we e should 1 be Infinitely better off oct Mere fre moralizing has little ef- ef effect upon children and much less upon adults Habit the Habit the response to proper stimuli stimuli-Is is the material out of which morality Is constructed A large part of so-called so morality Is not morality at all Young people are arc often consId- consId consIdered considered ered moral when they have e had no real opportunity to show i whether they are aro moral EVIL EUI THOUGHTS Persons who habitually habItual I think I of evil vii who have morbid ten- ten tendencies 1 are constructing brain j paths which will eventually intI 1 Im- Im Impel i pet pel el them to partake of the ev eVil l of which they the have ha e thought Had we statistics we should be surprised at the number of in insane in- in insane sane people who arc are responsible for their own condition That children should not I b bd b treated d courteously Is a barbarous I Idea dea Courtesy is the perspective of 0 personal environment en and should I be Increased directly as the re relationship re- re becomes be omes closer and not re-I re ersa visa as Is now too often the case I |