Therefore physical, emotional, intellectual culture is
good only if utilized by a good person. A strong and sup-
ple body is a splendid instrument, but it may be used for
bad ends as well as good. Emotional sensitiveness is so
much capacity for life; but it may be made a means of
decadent self-indulgence as well as a doorway to the appre-
ciation of humanity. Intellectual and executive skill is
power that may be used either helpfully or harmfully.
Indeed, one of the crying evils in our own land is the extent
to which men of great intellectual and executive abiUty
are willing to use their power for purely selfish ends, some-
times even in direct violation of the public welfare. Thus
the greater the power and training, the more harmful to
the social whole will be their use when directed toward
bad ends. Plato pointed out long ago that the worst men

* "Aa the highest i>urpo8e of man, and consequently of education
we universally recognize morality. He who should deny this would
not really know what morality is; at least, he would have no right
to take part in this discussion." — Herbabt, Tht A B C of Sense
Perception, translated by Eckoff, p. 93.
