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When he varied his question, and asked, "What have you learnt from the
war?" the answer came, "We have learnt our need of education."
Some would prefer them to have said: "We have learnt our need of
Christianity." But is it not the same thing? In grasping the vast
potentialities of the human spirit, and that is what this hunger
for education means, have they not grasped an essential
characteristic of the Christian religion and placed themselves at
its very growing point?
Education is Light, and Light is from God.
Dr. Jacks believes that a movement has begun which, "if it develops
according to promise, will grow into the most impassioned enterprise so
far undertaken by man."
The struggle for _light_, with its wide fellowships and high
enthusiasms, will displace the struggle for _power_, with its mean
passions, its monstrous illusions, and its contemptible ideals.
The struggle for power will end, not, as some predict, in
universal revolution, which would merely set it going again in
another form, but by being submerged, lost sight of, snowed under,
by the greater interests that centre round the struggle for light.
I say these things will happen. But they will not happen unless men
are sufficiently resolved that they shall.
Let the reader remember that those who now flock to the schoolmaster are
less likely than men of the previous generation to fall into the pit of
materialism.
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