The religion of science will demand that a working faith shall
have the universal note, rather than that which is local,
temperamental or transient. All nature’s truths are universal
truths. There are seven colors in the sunbeam--here, in Mars--in
all worlds. The whole is equal to the sum of the parts, for
Newton and Euclid and Moses. The laws of light and heat are the
same in all zones. Psychology that can be taught in Yale or
Harvard can be taught in Peking and Calcutta. A physiology with
the story of the circulation of the blood in a white man can be
studied in a college for brown men, and red men, and yellow men.
The multiplication table is not American--it is for all men.
The Ten Commandments are not Hebrew--they are for men who live
and work and die, without regard to color, education or race.
The master, therefore, whose music is to be a world music, must
teach that which is universal, simple and democratic.--N. D.
HILLIS.
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=Unkindness=--See LOVE’S CAREFULNESS.