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Professor George L. Anderson, chairman of the His- tory department, is the contributor for the first in the second series of articles written by K. U. alumna. Professor Anderson received both his A.B. and his Master ' s Degree from Kansas, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Since that time, he has been a member of the Colorado College faculty from 1934-1945, at which time he returned to his Alma Mater to teach history. He is especially ac- credited in his field with having written various articles and reviews which have appeared in history journals throughout the country. Professor Anderson is a member of various historical societies, presi- dent of the Kansas State History Teachers, a member of the Board of Education of the United Lutheran Church, and current program chairman for the next Mississippi Valley Historical Society which will meet in April.
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Page 9 THE BALM OF HISTORY by Mr. Dooley, the Bob Hope of fifty years ago, once remarked that he did not believe what he read in the history books because it sounded too much like a post-mortem exam- ination. It tells you, said Mr. Dooley, what a country died of, but I want to know what a country lives of. If Mr. Dooley were alive today he would see the same morbid preoccupation with post- mortems and obituaries, the same egocentric absorption in the pathology of our national life and culture, the same myopic emphasis on shortcomings and failures accompanied in some instances by the negative exaltation of human selfishness on the part of those who urge the specious solution of self-forgiveness. Admittedly, there is enough of shadow and darkness to justify a pessimistic view. We have witnessed self-designated liberals prac- ticing a kind of intellectual quackery that is reminiscent of the medical quackery of a cen- tury and more ago. Indeed, the almost com- plete emphasis upon cathartics (the practice of physick) and blood-letting so universal in medical practice when this country became an independent nation is matched by the ni- hilistic practices of the pseudo-liberal who would drain our culture of its life-giving nourishment and force us to live on the dry, shriveled husks of materialistic achievement and collectivist practice. The economic determinist, first cousin of the Marxian Socialist, who asserts contrary to both Scripture and centuries of experience that man can live by bread alone, the geo- graphic determinist who asserts that all fron- tiers are closed and that government must step in to open the door of opportunity, the presentist, who with sublime arrogance as- sures us that the generation of which we are a part possesses more intelligence than the whole vast heritage of experience, knowledge, and ideals bequeathed to us by countless gen- erations who have walked th is way before us; the relativist, openly contemptuous of princi- ple, conviction, and commitment, glorifying experimentalism in human affairs, and reserv- ing his highest praise for the opportunist who sails the seas of value judgments without pilot, compass, or anchor and cloaks his uncertainty and inadequacy with the assertion that he is a practical person approaching practical prob- lems of human behavior on a case basis, and finally, the collectivist, who, spurning the fact of individual worth and creativity, insists that we must commit ourselves to the omniscient and omnipresent government which alone can save us by taking the place of nature and na- ture ' s God; these are the pseudo-liberals who are emptying us of our life-giving ideals, purg- ing us of our convictions, leeching us of our spiritual strength, producing empty men wait- ing to be filled with the new soothing syrup of the masses which in its American version may be described in paraphrased Scripture Every good and perfect gift cometh not from the Father in Heaven, but from the Great White Father in Washington. These are the people who are preparing the way for the totalitarian state or for its scarcely less offensive version, the welfare state. These are the prophets of a new medieval period, a new feudal age with its emphasis upon status and station, its cal- lous disregard for individual rights of proper- ty and opportunity, its acceptance of war and preparation for war as the normal state of affairs, and its use of confusion and uncer- tainty as techniques of power. These are the progenitors of our cut-flower culture with all of its gaudiness, giddiness, gadgets, and glamour, a culture which in its worst forms has neither roots in the past nor insights into the future, a brittle culture of machines and mechanics with no room for the Creator nor for His greatest creation, the supremely im- portant individual soul, a materialistic civili- zation which carries within its Pandora ' s box of achievements a force powerful enough to consume the material base of civilization itself without having developed any trustworthy control of that force. Such is the condition of our culture to which the collectivist, present- ist, and relativist have brought us, or are rapidly bringing us. Such is the mess in which those educational philosophers who have drunk deeply of collectivist-presentist-relativ- ist thinki ng and who supplement their empha- (Continued on page 80,i
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