Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 90

of scientific triumph that does possible the civilization of our day.

In America, development of material has especially appeared to
receives an elevated value and place. We am become family with
the position served against us as Europe to be a nation of
materialists.

The to transform of a continent from a wild region to an earth of
houses and industry extremely organized in the brief space of three
centuries;  the marvelous one and I develop rapid of the enormous material
our earth's resources;  the to hasten here of anxious recruits from
other earths, passionately looking for and needing improvement of material,
you/he/she is magnified in this country the feverish acquisition of material
wealth and it accented the hard one calculating spirit of business,;  and
you/he/she is seemed to put undue value on the value of the success of material
and the things of which you/he/she is done.

John Burroughs from his/her calm advantage they sharpen of observation it says--"The
the civilization of present arms us with earth's strengths, air and water,
while it is weakening our taking on the sources of the personal power.

"It gives us the great intellectual wealth but it deadens ours more excellent
spiritual faculty, our clear conception of the tallest values of
life. Where any vision there is not, any intuitive perception of the great one
the fundamental truths of the spiritual and inside life, the best and the
taller it has to perish."

Before trying to discover the ethical and unknown motives and strengths
that animate and it raises our national life, I/you/he/she allow us to consider the
very true effect of the apparent predominance of the materialistic one
on our students of university.

Our young people they have not only shown to the pressure of the
materialistic atmosphere that beats and it strikes around all of us,
but they has to also satisfy the same strength from a different and
very direct contact in their classes to the university, and in the
university.

Few of they realize the difficult rectification of mental and spiritual
perspective that the young people of Christian training have to face as they enters