^70  APPENDIX.
Nor  can  the  great  mass  of  American  scholars  —  of  those  who  every  year  go
forth  from  these  and  kindred  halls  of  learning — look  forward  to  any  such
devotion  to  letters  alone.  Here  and  there,  from  among  them  all,  one  and
another  may  come  forth,  to  be  thinkers  for  the  race,  —  to  live  above  the  age
and  for  ftitare  generations ;  bnt  the  great  mass  of  them  are  to  be  active  par-
takers in  the  bustle  of  their  own  society  and  in  the  activities  of  their  own
time.  And  it  is  to  them  that  my  remarks  are  designed  to  be  addressed.  I
desire  to  impress  npon  them  the  lesson,  that  it  is  their  duty  to  make  them-
selves the  captains  and  the  guides,  the  leaders  and  inspirers,  the  teachers  and
the  helpers,  of  those  among  whom  their  lot  may  be  cast,  and  whose  advance-
ment they  are  bonnd  to  seek.  And  whatsoever  they  find  to  do  in  this  wide
and  fertile  field  let  them  do  it  with  their  might.  Let  them  bring  to  whatever
needfbl  work  lies  nearest  their  hands  all  the  clearness  of  vision,  the  fkimess
of  temper,  the  soundness  of  judgment,  the  insight  and  the  foresight,  the
strength  and  the  skill,  which  their  studies  are  designed  to  create  and  develop.
