A Changed World

Now, in a country where 7 percent of the world's people have become the great power for freedom, truth, human progress and human service, and where less than 30 percent of the people till the soil, the rule of the king, the rule of the church and the rule of the army are being overthrown. These powers have been set back, or set forward, to their true function. The king may keep his sceptre and call his people subjects, but the king is really their subject and no longer reflects his own opinions, or enforces his personal mandates. The army is no longer maintained for attack or aggression. The church has been put back to its proper function of teaching and leading in the things of the spirit. But the book man, the offspring of the church, remains, to keep narrow the definition of education, and arrogate to himself some special function or wizardry in respect to human thought and human progress. The so-called educators, the professors and the college presidents, reflect this aspect. The closing remarks of President Hopkins in his address "Should Colleges Be Educational Institutions" reflects it.