Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — America Has Faith In Education [ARTICLE]

America Has Faith In Education

By EMILE BOUTROUX,

French Academician

Nowhere else in the world is more faith placed in THE- POWERS OF INSTRUCTION AND MORAL EDUCATION, TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY, THE WISDOM AND THE MORAL QUALITIES OF MAN, THAN IN AMERICA. I was greatly touched by the attention paid me by American students and by their confiding amiability, and it was not difficult for me to believe their masters when I was told of the spirit of duty and morality which prevailed among them. The prayers with which the universities ,are onened each morning are not merely a vain formality. RELIGION IN AMERICA IS ABOVE ALL A QUESTION OF MENTAL SERIOUSNESS which may be expressed in the well known verses of Emierson: A’.'' ■ When duty whispers low, Thou must • . The youth replies, I can.