Pickering College - Voyageur Yearbook (Newmarket, Ontario Canada)

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lt' you min ohtuin fr-om your 0llllC'Zlll0ll 21 freefloin from ?lI'1'0Qilll1'GZ if youx n .- ltllltfllltbll 1-:in instil in you thc yirtuc- ol' humility, tht-n you will ho zihlv to tziko si just pi-lilo in yoursolf and your sr-hool. lfow ol' us, inflvotl, sm- hlm-ssewl with humility. We am- :ill prone to 2ll'l'0!l'lIll't .incl to tht- winitios. YQ-t tlu-y ami in-ost rlzunziging' to us. For virtuo without hunulitv lu-1-ounos soll'-riglitt-ousiwss. sinugnvss, prig'g'islui0ss. l.va11'ning' without hunnlity hoc-oinos tloglluntism, poflzmtry, llll0l6l'2llll'G. Passion without humility lvoi-ouws :ull munnvr ot' liiispozilmlmlt- things. ltlvcn low- without humility dv- ,,'oiu-rzitm-s to soll'-iiululgoiu-1-. self-pity. Svlf-El2'2'l'Zlll4llSOIlNlI1l at tho vxpensc oi tlu- out- wo low. ll l vulllll ask that Pit'lil'l'lllg' zxnfl its static lIll2'lll tlo just ont- thing' for you l woulel zisk for El high thing. I woulfl aisk that tlivy-iiiipert'ec't as thcy are u 1 ' - tlmonisolvi-s-smight still serv- to holfl 21 inirroi' up to you in whit-h you could su you: oxxn mnitims thu thu llllflll tuuh you thu xiitue of l 'l't ind ' i 2 g ' j ' - - iunu 1 y. 1 in that muy lwstow upon you your rightful llPl'll2lQ'li' - the vnrth. 'rcfvrzly-ugh! ffrom ll !'1lfllN'l urlrlrczwx 1111 If. W. JfIl'li'S0lI.j 0 9? if XlltltI'l'-WA'l'l 'll 'l'lu- vliurvli livs in tht- slizulows, tlvvp. .Xnfl :ull gootl uuin sm' lust zislt-op: YY llu- moon is lull, tht- night is 1-lvair, 'l'ho g'i'nws am- still, tho ill-:ul :wo na-air. Aufl tlu-n. ns spirits sm-In to lly. 'l'lu- ilziwn illuuiinzitvs tho sky, .Xml hriugs to onrtli uuotlior morn. Wlu-ro oltl folk tlio. :intl hnlws nrt- horn. 411111 l'ul1'rsnn

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Is there not a clue to the meaning in what has just been said? Could the converse of the beatitude not be stated thus: Unblessed are the arrogant for in their arrogance they miss most of what the world has to offer. The meek now, then, is the man without arrogance, without vanity,- not the rabbit-but, in short, the man possessed of humility. Blessed are those men who are possessed of the virtue of humility, for it enables them to know the joys -of living, to appreciate the manifold good things of this earth. The men possessed of humility-by humility what is meant ?-not, of course, the abject, fawning, cringing, hypocritical umbleness of Uriah Heep which was assumed to hide his evil. No, by humility, I mean the rarest of virtues, that virtue so out of favour in our time when only those pers-onalities as garish as a brass band receive favourable notice. I mean that virtue given in full measure only to the very great of this earth-a lack of arrogance,-a lack of all the vanities, both the large and the small. Humility is the opener of doors. It unlocks the world to men. Most of us go through our lives armed in arrogance, and protected by the padding of our vanities against every appeal to our senses. Arrogance closes the windows on experience, substitutes what is not for what is, ignores the tapping of envir-onment, and pulls in the complicated radar of the soul. Or I may put it in another way. Humility is a recognition that you form one-tenth part of a company of ten men. Call it by any name you will-this freedom from arrogance, this freedom from vanity-it is nonetheless an essential quality in the man wh-o would know the world it really is, in the man who would know his fellow men in the man who would inherit the earth. 7 It is a necessary ingredient of those who would be educated, for awareness is nine-tenths humility. VVhat is education for if not to develop wisdom? And what is wisdom but the ultimate humility-the recognition that we do not know? Knowledge is proud that she has learned so much-wisdom is humble that she knows no more. And how d-o we know humility when we see it-or the man who possesses it? Look for the man who does not scoff or jeer, who brings to each question an open mind, to every work of his fellow men a sympathetic effort to understand, and who hates only the poseur, the hypocrite. Look for the man who is at home in any company, who does not embarrass the rich by flaunting his poverty, nor antagonize the poor by a depreciation of wealth, who does not outrage the educated by boasting his ignorance, nor affront the uneducated with contempt, who does not insult good company with bad manners, nor try to overawe the humble with elegance. Twenty-seven

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