Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Even if the world is not yet what it ought to be, we must recognize that there is another reason for this besides a failure of the force. It is imperfection of the machinery. An article cannot be perfectly manufactured, no matter how great the force, without good machinery. Our machinery could not now be faultless; the science of economics is not yet thoroughly understood, nor is the art of right and just government perfectly clear. So with a boundless force we could not yet have the world perfect, but let us rest assured with so many evidences...
...good many articles have recently appeared in various papers about the college man in business, and extremists have gone so far as to assert that college unfits a man for a business career. This in general we cannot agree with. There are undoubtedly cases where the freedom of college life does unfit men for business; there is even such a thing as the "university fool" who is unfitted for everything. But he is not a typical college man. If he graduates a fool it is not the fault of the college but of the man himself...
...here at Harvard, for instance, lives his life like a rational being; if he learns something from books but more from men; if he disciplines himself to the proper degree and, on the other hand, gives himself sufficient amusement to cultivate the light, buoyant side of his nature, he cannot but come out with the ability to meet men well, to think and to talk clearly, in short, to 'fit in' to any set of conditions-the quality of adaptability...
...this the important thing in a business man? In business today everything goes with a rush and the man who cannot adapt himself, at a minute's notice to any combination of circumstances falls out of the race. If a man knows men, knows their motives and their actions; if he is a master of himself and of circumstances; if his mind leaps quickly and surely to conclusions, he is fitted for business. If a man does not get this adaptability from the college he alone is at fault. The man who is spoiled by his college course would probably...
...from your souls of the fires of passion and lust." Thus he brought his questioners down to the practical duties of life. When we see how good and lovable a man he was and how he tried to make men better, both in his time and afterwards, we cannot deny that he was a great teacher, and that some of God's truth was revealed through...