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Las diagrammes suivants illustrant la mtthoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 MKROCOPV RHOIUTION TUT CHAIT lANSI and ISO TEST CHABT No 2] 1.0 I.I im iil 111.6 /APPLIED IIVVC3E In, ADDRESS AT MOONSHINE BY BLISS CARMAN ietet- ADDRESS AT MOONSHINE ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS MCMXI'OFTHE UNTTRINIAN SCHOOL OF PERSONAL HARMONIZING FOUNDED BY MARY PERRY KING AT MOONSHINE. TWILIGHT PARK IN THE CATSKILLS By BLISS CARMAN NEW YORK Privately Printed 191 1 fOPYKlGHT 191 1 BY BLISS CARMAN THE TABARD CRESS ADDRESS AT MOONSHINE 3 CANNOT EASILY express I the satisfaction I have in J being asked to address the first class formally graduating from this School of Personal Harmonizing. Its establish- ment and prosperity are matters of far greater mo- ment to me than the successful issue of any merely private aims and ambitions. Whatever anyone may hope to achieve in the world of art andletters, however disinterested and devoted, must be after all only a partial and individual success, the con- tribution of a single mind, of a single pair of hands, to the great cause of human happiness. Labor as we may in the limitless domain of art, we are only humble workmen still, restricted to the narrow confines of our individual power, capable of add- ing all too little to the world s splendid overflov ing treasury,— our vogue destined to pass, o. novels, our operas, our poems, our paintings, our statues destined to be forgotten. But here in the establishing of a school for the education of per- sonality, our feet are on the foundations of the world, partial aims are merged in those which are universal, and we become co-workers with the Lord of Life. We are no longer merely students acquiring knowledgefor our own gratification, no longer merely artists proud in the perishable achievements of our skill, but seers and prophets of a new day, taking part in the creation of that better world which is to be. Do you think my words toohigh-flown?Then, pray, to what greater tasks do you think we mor- tals can give ourselves than to the transcendent art and science and rehgion of human culture? May we not truly call education the most divine of all the arts, at once the most primitive and fundamental, the most ancient, modem and far- reaching. To create new forms of loveliness, as the artist does, for the enheartening and beauti- fying of daily life, is indeed a calling worthy of our best endeavors; and happy are they who pursue it in any directioa But to create and illumine new spirits, to set new and larger boundaries for the outlook of the mind, to recreate and develop jaded bodies,— to fashion, in short, new personalities, —here surely is a labor really angelic, never to be accomplished without an unselfishness, an in- sight, and a devotion, that may truly be recognized as divine, I speak thus loftily of the profession of teach- ing because I believe it to be so vital in our time. We live in a day of great spiritual awakening, when the soul of man, having so largely mastered the resources of material existence, is turning everywhere to secure the finer requisites of its being,— peace, security, joy. Our political and re- ligious institutions are all on trial, summoned to the bar of incorruptible goodness, in the sup- me court of the soul, to answer for their deeds,- n..t whether these have been good, but whether they have been the best. But all oiu: economic and so- ciologic problems come back at last to the man and the woman, to the single individual person. No machinery of government, no ingenuity of law, can procure for us the justice and innocence and gladness which our spirits with their incredible foresight so imperiously demand. There can be no making people free, nor honest, nor happy, in the mass. Only through education can we reach the goal; there is no other adequate pi nacea for mis- ery; no other assurance of adequate happiness. Only by making boys and girls, men and women, more kindly, more sincere and brave, more cour- teous, honest, and industrious, can we m^ke this generous and impartial earth more hospitable for human habitation, and life itself as glorious and ftilly significant as we instinctively believe it des- tined to become. Our days are stirring with the de- voted deeds of men and women in every activity tending toward human amelioration and reform. In no direction can fine effort be more helpful, in no field can it bear more sure and imperishable fruit, than in the garden ground of education. De- mocracy,socialism,single tax, the referendum, and a score of other devices for better government have their adherents and advocates. /Vnd we should all do well to form unbiased judgments on these subjects, and heartily espouse whatever so- cial or political reform seems to us best. For widely as they differ in the means they propose to apply to flagrant ills, they are alike in the beneficence of their aims, and in their effort to secure justice from the imjust and and to impose honesty upon the knave. But education is more '-adical; it would im- plant justice in every heart, and establish ideals of decency and fair pLiy in every growing life. I may very well, therefore, offer yru my con- gratulations that you are to be engaged in a pro- fession which is at once so dependent upon radi- ant ideals and of such immense practical impor- tance. Education, as I have said, is not only one of the finest, but one of the greatest of the arts; it is indeed the mother art, the alma mater of genius, the preceptress of intelligence, the patient and un- wearied foster parent of life. We are children ot a cosmic matriarchy, sprung from the conscious seed of time, formed in the teeming womb of •pace, quickened by the mystcrioiM energy,— the •pint which makes all things one. Our belief in adivine paternity ha» the sanction of immemorial tradition, but our feeling toward the maternity of nature is deeper and more in' stinctive still. Man is thrice bom of woman; he is bom a li^^ing spirit when he is firnt laid in his holy mother's arms; he is born a questing intelli- gence, when at her comfortable knees he firet be- gins to lisp his mother tongue; and he is bom at last to full physical manhood as the accepted lover of his worshipped maid. By the will of woman he is brought forth from eternal mystery; by the wis- domofwomanhc is given under8tanding;through the mating charm of woman he is made partaker in the destiny of his race. It is wrong to speak of children as little animals, as we often do,— un- thinking and uncaring; they are more spirit than anything else, and their growth can only be en- trusted safely to the spiritual foresight which mothers the race. From Solomon to Spencer men have written and discoursed on the science of education; and myriads of brave strong men and women have given devoted Uves for its fruitful maintenance, and for enlarging and perfecting its scope. For education to be adequate must be high and broad as well as deep; it must be lighted by inspiration, enriched by all the learning of ex- perience, and fructified with all the lore of in- herited skill. The lore of the creative arts and constructive sciences must be imparted by men, since it is in these domains that men have been supreme. But while the work of a man can only be learned from a man, to the deeper ranges of being, the sources of spirit, the springs of power, it is seldom permitted to man's rude reason to penetrate. These profound deep of life, it would s«cm, must be forever in the maternal care of women. Man, the restless discoverer, inventor, innovator, compeller, is himself with all his am- bitions sprung from a nature still profounder than his own, which broods upon the eternal things, and to whose calm soul all man's vaunted knowledge and bowted deed* are but u du«t upon the wind if they have not the laving in- spiriting tjuality of love. We may know, but sSe underetands; we may achieve and overcome, but »he alone can te-.ch ut to rejoice. The reina of night and day are in her hand*, and the will loose the bands of Orion in her own good time. This is the mystery of life, the impassable enigma. You see I do not speak to you according to fash- ion nor tradition, but out of a fearless conviction, as if I were trying to write for you a poem worthy of the occasion, worthy of your Moonshine School, worthy of its founder. And -■'ctry. we know, is sceptical of argument and 'wHl not rely upon logic alone. As a wise little sister once warm- ly exclaimed, "There are greater things than truth." I have forgotten what called forth the re- mark. I suppose she had been hearing some over- glorification of the modem scientific spirit— some vaunting of our mannish idol. And this daring Emersonian phrase was the woman's instinctive claim for the transcendent wisdom of the soul M dust ingin' */, but rcome, ereina lewill 1 time. nigma. ofiaah' iction, 'orthy ithine y. we It rely vann- than here- over- ■some [ahng ictivc soul and iu beneficent uues of truth. Tne unc^uencha^ ble spirit, bent on happiness, on freedom,on ideals, which could utter that thought and in an instant strike down the demi'god of intellectual pride, demolishing our pretensions in a breath, is itself manifestation of a greater thing than mere truth. The ^thful devotion which day by day and year after year, through toil, discouragement and dis' may,brings its undefeated dreams to pass in works of helpfulness and beauty, is a. greater thing than mere truth. Yet see how, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive r In these admissions we only pass to a wider view, a larger understanding of the quality and significance of truth. For the unitrinian, truth is hardly truth unless it has soul and body, unless it partakes of spirituality on the one hand and re- ality on the other. There are pre uer things than the conception of truth divorced from good and beauty; there is nothing greater than the truth that is allied to its spiritual origin and its physi- cal fulfillment; for that utmost larger truth is nothinglessthantheumversalthought,theLogtM. which must necessarily include not only infinite knowledge, but imperishable beauty and inex- haustible goodness in its triune peri-ection,-just asour partial knowledge is allied to sensation and emotion,-aU fleeting and imperf-ect, yet forever inseparable. Truth is the second person of a sa- cred tnnity; wherever voluntary good awakes &> sensiblelovelinessisfound,there is truth between them,-and there only. How monstrous and bhnd would all the arts and activities of men be- come, withoutthebeneficentimpulsesofthe soul and the clear guidance of knowledge and reason' How sterile were the researches of science, with no attachment to the purposes and needs of Ufe' How blighted and vain those rehgious exalta- tions which shut themselves away from the light of science, denying the ministrations of beauty and the sanctity of nature! All these are broken and felse ideals of art, of science, of religion. But rehgion and science and art can never be reaUy separable in their aims; they are the methods in which a triune World'self chooses to realize its benign ideab; throiigh them we share in accom- plishing divine purposes; through them our dark- ling lives are illumined, and in their practice we ourselves are refreshed upon the doubtful way. In your art, in your profession, it is with life and nothing less that you have to deal; it is life that you are called upon to foster and to mould. You are not mere teachers of theory, you are not mere trainers in technical accomplishments. You are, and you are to be, practitioners in the great art of human culture. Life is the precious me- dium committed to your hands, which you are to impress with your ideals, and form for its destinies by your influence for better or worse. And this process of transforming ideals into act- uaUties, of bringing aspiration to its finest flower and fruition, is one of the greater things,— an inspiration of the Over-truth in whose light alone can hfe be worthily lived. I need hardly remind you that only those who have sought truth dili- gently with a devoted heart and an eager mind; >s who have made it their honored counseUor and their inalienable friend; who have been willing for its sake to front the beleaguering hordes of doubt, discouragement, poverty, and unsuccess; who have seen it threatened at every turn by malevolence, chicanery, selfishness andfear; who have learned what faith and persistence are needed before it can prevail, (yet how radiantly andsupremelyitdoesprevail),onlytheycanhave any just conception of what must be added to truth to make still greater things. As I think of the teacher's office and what constitutes a great teacher s fitness for tliat high vocation, the pre-eminent requisites seem to be,in- sight, courage, sincerity, knowledge, enthusiasm, all inanaboundingdegree,andaboveall an unfil- ing and unselfish devotion. Great insight, to per- ceive the student's needs; great courage and sin- cerity to arraign faults and convince of dangers at any risk; great knowledge to be able to sub- stitute better ideals and habits for worse, to set wrongs right, and to supply the needed welcome and nurture for growth; and a great, generous loving care for the plight of all necessitous beings in their baffling struggle toward perfection. For, as Herbert Spencer says,"Education is all that we do for ourselves and all that others do for us for the purpose of bringing us nearer the perfection of our nature." These exceptional helps,I know, you have found in the friend and leader with whom you have here been following this most Uberal education. Do not for a moment allowyourselves to fancy that because you are not a multitude, your school is small. For I tell you there is none greater— none greater in its destiny and in its service to the world. That inspired old man, Pestalowi, with the simple faith of his childlike heart, was no less great because all his dreams and plans came to naught in his own day. His lite seemed a series of fulures, and yet how splendid a success ! By reason of loving spirit alone, with neither formulated system nor theory, he became thefairy godfiither of modem education, the spiritual good genius and forerunner of those who were to sys- tematize and apply the spirit of his art. When Froebel gave up a livelihood in order to devote himself to his ideal-to put in practice the theory ofobjective education, and found only fiveyoung children, his sister's femily, ready to receive his care, one would have called that a smaU school; and yet how great it was-great enough to in- fluence all the teaching of the world ! So to-day, itisnotnumbersthatmakegreatness Majorities' may rule, but it is always the few who must save the world-the few to whom the seed of truth IS revealed; the few that are iUumined with a fervent and sublime feith,whom no hindrance can daunt, no falsity defeat; the few that are in- domitable and persistent to the goal. You must always believeinthe sorcery of your philosophy. Inplaceof noisy applause, haveyounotthemusic of gladness? In place ofcrowded darkness, have you not light? In place of decay, have you not growth ? In place of dreariness and uncertainty, have you not a charmed hfe ? i6 I take it as a glad omen that you convene in Moonshine, and in the mountains. It is in moon- shine that nature works her most magic trans- formations and lays her wonder-breeding spell upon the earth. It is in the mountains, lofty, se- rene, and remote, that freedom has been nourished and religions have been born. A stranger might see here only a company of intelligent students come together for the practice of new achieve- ments and to listen to the discourse of an ac- complished woman. But to me it is like Plato's academe, this atmosphere to which we have been admitted. I see that the Modern Spirit, which dissects all doctrines and holds fast only that which can prove itself true and desirable and comely, — which is forever questir^, forever ac- complishing, forever growing,— has here enim- ciated its latest revelation. Rousseau's plea for freedom, Pestalozzi's impassioned love of his fel- low beings, Froebel's sagacious comprehension of nature's laws, Delsarte's profound and clarifying discovery, here begin to find their complete fiil- >7 fil nt and utility. And the founder of your school, like her great predecessors in the science and art of education, has only come to this pre- cious victory for her ideals after years of unre- mitting effort and discouragement, such as only those who are possessed by a sublime ideal can sustain. I need not rehearse the laborious study, the research, the sifting of one philosophy aftei^ another, the questioning, the weighing, the pon- dering, the teachers sought and listened to, the booksread,thetheories tested in costlypractice,- all to begone through with boundless enthusiasm and severely critical thought, before your school could be established. Neither you nor I,Iamsure, can measure the lonely travail of spirit, the stress of body, and strain of mind, which must have been encountered on this difficult and glorious way. This teaching which seems so clear, so in- spiring, so helpftj, so conclusive, adequate and abounding, and which we are privileged to take so easily in such beautifiil surroundings, was not so easily come by. A great life has been given to i8 secure it,— yes, more than one,— and we were dull indeed not to feel an obligation to carry our share of it worthily, with the bearing of Chaucer's Ox- ford student, of whom he wrote, "And gladly would he learn and gladly teach." Indeed your teaching calls for a scrupulous adherence to the finest code of ethics. Unitri- nianism has truly its religious note, as well as its philosophic and artistic. It appeals to the moral or emotional side of human nature, quite as much as to the intellectual and physical, for its sanction. The spiritual life comes quite as much within its province, as the other two. It conceives all three to be of equal importance, and their co-equal cul- ture to be imperative for the education of the in- dividual. And it concedes and inculcates the pri- macy of the spirit in all things, in conduct, in growth, in art. It perceives that there can be no successful issue in the world of knowledge and speculation, nor in the world of art and affairs, without the radiant leadership of the soul; and that any philosophy, any civilization, which is bi 19 WKh .t« burden of spiritualty, its passion for truth, ,ts unashamed love of all lovely thines Z "not come to destroy old systems, butt^'fi ^em Itwouldnotsubvertreligion itsodyh -Jdon^ylendthemnelmJ^r^^^^ >^d because it is not arbitrary 7nd finite but owL r'''^pp'^^=''''^*°'^--^ °, ^n'personahty. It does not fbmish patterns >tody upholds standards; so that, whTett' -ndsofus the utmost culture, it perle^^le utmost variety of character. It does^noT^t to conform to any type,-neither in our creecT ourconv.c.ons.norourpursuits.Itonlyasbt to be our best selves, to realize our finest ideals, to make the utmost use of all our powers. We cannot be good unitrinians, unless we learn to be glad'hearted; for joyousness is the native air of the soul. We cannot be true unitrinians, unless we learn to cultivate an eager and appreciative intelligence; for knowledge is the very food of the mind. We cannot be comely unitrinians at all, unless we develop our bodies in the freedom and health and grace which they are so capable of enjoying and utilizing; for happy achievement is the end of life, as happy love is its beginning, and happy learning its means of growth. And this brings us more specifically to con- sider the tasks which are to be yours. Your par- ticular field of teaching is the training of the growing body into harmony with the growing mind and spirit. This is the medium through which you are to influence personality and mould character. You are to reach to the inmost reces- ses of moral being, where the emotions and the will reside— to arouse, to encourage, to strengthen ^r" *???. " '*• ^^"'ce. and by offering "beau^ thnig, to think about, to do. and«Jf ^ucefro™ it beneficent habit, of g„ciou,a,i' graceful activity; and by freeing the natunlave nues of expre«ion. motion and speech, you wiU «.mubte the nund to clarify and'Zei w^ ev.tl.^htand.eflecrionhfe.ay.Lengt ^\^ T"^ '"^^ of pewonality. you will -chiefly t^etb^greatrh^ear^i^j:^ poetry and dancing. Through the rhythmic speU of music, the most primitive, potent and univer- «lly appreciated of all the fine arts, you wiU lay a charm upon the willing spint and awaken the most pnmal and most puissant instincts of cap. bjty. Through therhythmicspellofpoetryyou wilbnng to the wilhng intelligence aU^Lt that ha, been thought and said in the world," (torepeatMatthew Arnolds happy phntse.)^. cause u. no other way can subliiLtTd truth be conveyed. The poetry of the world contains the wisdom of the world; it is only in forms of po- etry that wi»dom receives its mo«t perfect sute- ment, and becomes food not only for the brood- ing mind, but for the deeper »ub'Con»ciou» intu- ition as well. The full value of poetry does not lie in the charming magic of its cadences, nor in the unequivocal truth it embodies, nor even in its enraptured and orphic mode of speech, but in the fact that it blends all these characteristics together as the only language adequate to serve the threefold requirements of man's nature. All the subUme consolations of religion have come to us out of the ancient heart of the eternal in forms of poetry; and into forms of poetry must all the news of science and philosophy be trans- muted again to serve the fullest purposes of life. And since poetry is a spoken art and depends for its ultimate beauty on the musical tones of the voice, your harmonizing training will not over- look the importance of good speech in your ideal curriculum. Finally, through the rhythmic spell of the dance and interpretive motion, you will free and strengthen, you will co-ordinate and harmonize, you will beautify and make .ymmet- ncal the bodies and their conduct committed to your charge. In the ardor of your noble calling. «o imperwnal and universal in its aims, you will spread the lyrical cry, "No glory is too splendid To house this soul of mine. No tenement too lowly To serve it for a shrine." In all these arts which are to be propcrlyyours. you see, you will be dealing with the greater things. In the effort to forward the development of symmetrical human personalities, the first great requisiteisfreedom-freedomforthehumanbody, as weU as for the spirit and i {id, for die salva- tion of the whole being in sanity and joy. For this cause you must forever discard, abandon, discredit and utterly condemn aU artificial restric- tions which hinder personal freedom and mar personal perfection, whether they be creeds or corsets, shibboleths or shoes, collars or co --ven- tions. Mind and spirit and muscle grow by use- grow ill by ill use, and grow well by good lue— but not by disuie. Our creeds and our shoes must be our own, fitted to our own measure, suited to our own need, large enough to allow free play, strong enough to withstand the roughness of the journey, but not cramped after grotesque pre- scribed inhuman pattern, nor accepted at any ex- traneous bidding. Yet for my soul's good, I would rather say my prayers to a painted idol than wear a pinching shoe. Sanguinary wars have been waged, nations have been disrupted, men have perished at the stake, for a good called freedom of conscience. Your fight will be for freedom of the body— not only freedom to breathe and move, but freedom to obey the behests of its own sou! before all others. It is conceded well to have a sensitive conscience and a ready understanding. To possess all the faculties of an uninjured, cul- tivated and inspired physique, is a no less vital good, no less to be desired. Edward Carpenter, the modern English seer, says " I am the prophet of hitherto unuttered joy ! AU our feculties,all our instincts, are so much raw material to aid the life of the soul. The body is therootofthesoul. To over-emphasize the body IS to hide the soul; to despise the body as the ascetic, is as stupid and as disastrous as to despise the soul ; to despise the soul is to miss the heights and subtleties and sweetnesses of all the wonder- fill fiinctions of the body. The soul invading makes the body its temple. Beware, lest thou' make of it thy prison and thy grave, instead of thy winged abode and palace of joy." As ministers of that fine culture, remember Whitman's magnificent line, "You are the gates of the body,and you are the gates of the soul." You wiUoften be discouraged in yourtask; for with all the mystic wisdom of which humanity IS capable-the insight, the self sacrifice, the no- bility-there are still abysms of unreason from which at times it seems averse to stir. Yet do not argue overmuch. Sow the seed, and experi- ence wiU plow it in. Sunitwithfairexample.and tune will bring it to fhiitage. Do all you can and let God do the rest. He ha« ways unknown to .. tone ofbnnging the soul to reason. Andthc -reto art.successis,thatitpa^theguar1s vprejucJounchaUenged.and occupies thT^ ctadel of Che soul.before we are a4re How should we not persist, and be confident and glad, unterrorized by hfe? We have been made possessors of a great doctrine, disciples of a great school of though, wh,ch has itsLt^ begmmngs in this simple, yet beautifij house, in theinspmnglovehnessoftheseancienthiUsThe mjage:s prepared; the dooris open; the world IS below. Let us not be laggard of foot, nor weak of heart, but ofagoodcoun.ge.as befits bearers of an untarnished gospel; for the benign Power wh,ch br^gs such revelations to man in thi d^ese^on^ Will not faa us upon the road. oJ hreesdedlanternwillbesuifidentforusthrough the forest and the night, until at last appear! kindhng shaftsof dawn bathing thelonely pel in v,ctonous rose and blue and gold,-the Uht oftheAU.beautMtheAll.wise'th;^;Sfd »7 Doubt not the day is at hand. The stars in their rhythmic courses will be on your side; the wav- ing grasses of the fields will give you help; and the wheeling birdsof the air will companion you. You shall arise with the incense of morning to serve life every day anew, and with the going down of the sun you shall return to glad reflec- tion and repose,-the spirit to its joy, the mind to its dreams, the pulse to its peace,— the un- grudging being to the unhasting eternal. Moonshine, I September, 1911. Two hundred and fifty copies of this address ha ve been printed for the Author under the direc- tion of Frederic W. Goudy, at The Tabard Press, New York, October, 191 1.