University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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THE GREAT GOAL s » s i RUTH, beauty and goodness, once clearly seen of men, are not T;|l provincial nor even continental. They are planetary. There is no III mere Nevadan chemical fact, nor a Timbuctoo law of falhng ' - 1; bodies, nor a Himalayan moonlight, nor a Chinese conscience. Science is universal, wholly heedless of political boundary lines. The queen of the night probably urged Adam toward romance as effectively as she does latter day beaux and her gentle beams inspire alike Ghandi and Galsworthy. The victories of character are as instant in Labrador as in China. The greatest of the great privileges of collegians is that, deahng with the things of art and science, they are companioning with universals. Once truly acclimated to the upper air of these universals (and such acclimating should be a goal of the college years) they are due to be globe spirits, shedders of the shackles of tradition, of Chauvinism, of prejudice, members of the brother- hood of man, votaries of justice, of peace on earth and of good will to men. In these dark hours of world sorrow and shame the one great comfort is the universal sanction of truth, beauty and goodness. The ultimate challengers of war, poverty, pestilence, bestiality and other enemies of the race are sciences, arts, moral convictions and religious aspirations and inspirations. Steadily each

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of these challengers evolves, in the understanding of humans, towards the universal. There comes a day when a great and controlling host of world-visioned men and women, mustering on every continent and on every isle, will see eye to eye in the light of common truth. This host, because of its widened common knowledge, common moral sanctions, common reverence of life and common faith will abandon hate and fear and will rise to love and reverence. There shall be a new earth. States, nations, peoples there will still be, but their com- petitions will be in the fields of knowledge and beauty, their rivalries in the realms of service. This is no dream. Rather it is but a corollary of the proposi- tion that sciences, arts, conduct codes and spiritual yearnings are all steadily approaching the universal stage. The Chinese have a proverb: Patience and perseverance make mulberry leaves into satin. Race patience and perseverance in the ways of science, art and spiritual truth will surely, some day, transform this quarrelling, backsliding earth into an Eden of peace and progress. Collegians, take heart! You have nothing to lose but your own mortal hates, prejudices, ignorances and fears. You have an Eden to help to win for a race and forever, —WALTER E. CLARK.