Reading the history of the primitive ages, we cannot but notice the fact, that the characteristic which elevated a man above his fellows was simply physical strength combined with physical courage. The man of strongest muscle was known as a hero. Hercules with his club was the type of the period.
Advancing a step in the history of our race and we find some attention being turned toward the intellect. The man of sagacity, forethought, prudence, who made his ideas practical, stood as the man most revered. Then, with the progress of civilization, followed a higher development. Inventors, writers, orators, statesmen, men great in any sphere of intellectual activity, became our foremost men. We are now in the midst of such a period. No nation in the world has yet risen above this plane of thought. But what now is needed? It is this. It is character. Up to the present time there has been the worship of the intellect simply, for the power and the success it brought with it.
The time is rapidly approaching however when the highest honor is to be bestowed upon those who possess the moral and spiritual attributes which lift man into his true kinship with his Maker. The intellect alone then will not be held as of transcendent importance, but will be made subordinate to an exalted grandeur of character which recognizes intellectual qualities as only instruments, or promoting man's good.
