The American University And the American Man Second Commencement Address
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The disclosure of the real nature of human society is 10 The American University and the American Man. having a remarkable effect upon our ideas as to the true purpose of learning. During all the ages, from Socrates to the Concord School, "know thyself" has been the praise- worthy recipe of philosophy. Some people have ever fancied that they possessed such knowledge. But in reality man has hardly been on speaking terms with himself until recently an introduction took place in the laboratory of ...science. The result is marvelous. Man beholds himself in acutual process of evolution. His ideas and passions, his virtues and vices, are the product of environment, selection, and heredity. He perceives that social institutions are living beings as much as are plants and animals. They are the outward expression of his own thoughts, the resultant or residuum of his own conduct, growing with his growth and decaying with his decay. Furthermore, society itself is seen to be a vast organization, a complex animal, obeying the same law as do individuals or "self-conscious" cells which compose it.
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