Patience At the Fireside
460 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1926 $16,Soo; and though this was a paltry sum, yet it against religion as against...
...Divorce, after of the first importance...
...Older novels used to as- specialist in the matter to read and weigh much of sume that "they lived happily afterward...
...This is true of the book-trade, the script in the waste-basket as an example to other publishers' business, the paper, pulp, and straw indus- writers...
...The corollary, a waning belief in the Power which set them wonderful maps and geologic surveys of the early ex- in motion, has never been able to reconcile the enigma plorers, who were mostly Jesuits, have never been sur- of such men as Laennec or Pasteur...
...But the fireside they must vow to continue in that way there is no falling off from former numerical glories, for some time...
...And We do not agree on the responses, but those yet the whole plea for divorce is a series of variations who hold one view are as free to act upon their conon the theme of "happiness" and the "right to live victions as are those who hold an opposing view...
...Behind open...
...All in all, the pubtremendous demonstration of the fallacy involved in lic addiction to educational influences seems about as believing that the marriage door ought to be left permanent as any aspect of our democracy...
...The World, in agreeing with Sir Gilbert, of various departments of commerce that lessen the suggests that the English author throw his own manucost of production...
...Love is not tant questions...
...People are forever won- wise and irritating things, but it has shocked a condering if madame and her husband are happy together siderable number of temperamentally sleepy people -wondering, indeed, if they could possibly be happy into action...
...We heartily concur with the World...
...patronage of Andrew Carnegie, need not be stressed here, but it is worth while saying that the annual ex- SIR GILBERT PARKER, who, as the New York penditure for library maintenance in this country World reminds us, is the author of many books which amounts to $37,000,000, and that the vast propaga- have appeared, and of at least another one which has tion of knowledge through these channels would not not yet been published, declares that there are far too be possible even then, were it not for the cooperation many books...
...The strange theory such boundaries...
...There was established, of course, a in material science...
...It reposes less on the viola- tution, others will express the views of experienced tion of a rule than upon the utter absence of a rule...
...We that nature to best advantage...
...and though this was a paltry sum, yet it against religion as against royalism...
...The material which Jefferson col- which holds that an increasing familiarity with the oblected while abroad, came from France, for Spain scure forces which govern life induces, as its inevitable guarded her resources as data for the Vatican...
...may seem to imply should imagine that everybody with any experience returning to the heated theoretical debates of the early of matrimony would realize the essential necessity for middle-ages...
...In an early this is an excellent maxim, not only for Benedictines, issue, at the time the centenary of his election to the but also for benedicts...
...Those who succeed in it are such he has at least the joy of realizing that nobody will as contemplate this mystery, not themselves...
...The steady increase of divorce-and and possibly now and then a definite increase will also the steady increase of talk about divorce-is a gladden the hearts of registrars...
...restrain us from printing...
...It may stop him from doing his best and that the future will be that wedded life would be considerably more pleas- surely adjudge the result...
...not the final answer-which lies deeper far...
...But the great LAENNEC, M. Cornilleau reminds us, grew to organizing monks knew perfectly well that unless a manhood in an absolutely pagan world...
...His child- man binds himself to the sacred enterprise, he is hood was passed in days when religion was banished likely to leap up and run off at the first clear sign that from France...
...and today we are in a better position slavery, but it certainly ought to be servitude in the to answer them than the people of generations ago sense exemplified by the Master of all affection when were...
...These are charming subjects in development of Catholic higher education in the themselves, but they are hardly indentical with mar- United States is therefore potentially unlimited...
...He lowered Himself beneath the souls He saved...
...science was whole-hearted...
...A few details, however, in Obviously, they have reckoned with human nature an article by Robert Cornilleau, in La Vie Catholique, quite as cautiously as a marriageable young woman deserve a passing word, if only because they add im- should...
...and consequences of the other, because the emphasis was the attitude of college men themselves has centered placed on the wrong adjective to begin with...
...The whole enterprise is surrounded nowadays Criticism, it is true, has said a good many unwith a ridiculous suspicion...
...period of preliminary acquaintance, just as courtship wisely antedates the matrimonial tie...
...Though some of these papers all, is not so much a confession of failure as the demon- will consider education broadly as an American instistration of a mistake...
...The one's own life...
...After all, the best monastic Chair of Clinical Medicine at the College de France foundations are those which frankly strove to reprowas commemorated, The Commonweal sought to give duce the atmosphere of the home, though on a loftier some appreciation of the life of this wonderful man level-Monte Cassino being, not merely closer to the whose religious faith was as simple as his devotion to heavens in a physical sense, but nearer also to God...
...and "How can education succeed in developing the utter absence of any mention of humility...
...matter, one may say that the most striking thing about To ask questions like, "What is the nature of all contemporary writing in favor of easy divorce is man...
...Recent statistics, est doctors of medicine who ever lived, and more or overwhelming in their impact, lead one to believe that less the founder of modern diagnosis...
...But they are an answer which the worldly, unless victims of what THE familiarity of the public with the free libraries a great mystic has termed "the terrible need to do that have come to the United States through the without God," best understand and appreciate...
...The climax of the thing, however, is the suggestions for reform, so varied an array of theories, constantly enforced wonder if madame and her hus- that it is quite impossible for anybody excepting a band are together at all...
...Incidentally, a forum is afforded Those who believe in it rapturously might well learn for all those, whether inside the college or out of it, from Saint Benedict the true meaning of "peace...
...His return to relieved from poverty the author of the Declaration religious practices took place when he was twenty-two, of Independence in his declining years, and enabled him at the very age when the horizons of science-the to dwell at Monticello for the rest of his life...
...460 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1926 $16,Soo...
...Obviously, it is toward afterward...
...and they got round the problem primarily by measurably to the lesson which his life offers to a insisting that the monastic life was to be considered a world in which, too often, the only faith left is faith permanent affair...
...his first appointment was as surgeon to all in his daily routine is not "sweetness and light...
...who have ideas on this very engrossing subject...
...For its ful-but also in the first principles of the enterprise...
...But they are, after all, the most impora resolve to sit in the second best chair...
...part The Commonweal, continuing its interest in the To see that matrimony is the subtlest illustration of work of the college, hopes to print in the near future universal law is to discern that it can never be alto- a number of articles by prominent authorities on topics gether a matter of individual whim...
...sented by the specialist, that the attention of the imWithout venturing into speculative aspects of the mediate educational future will be directed...
...But there September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 461 is pertinence enough in it to show that the Church, THE CAMPUS BLOOMS AGAIN or any other institution which takes a steady look at human nature, cannot avoid the sensible conclusion OBODY is sure how many new steps will tramp that when a man and woman settle down together by away on the old collegiate paths this fall...
...There was a time when a library meant a place for only literary people and scholars, but now it is the PATIENCE AT THE FIRESIDE workingman's laboratory-the recreational delight of the tired laborer as well as the small child-and the "~ HE fourth step of humility is reached," says the stimulus for the ambitious and eager immigrant...
...upon it were properly trained, not only in housewifery It is drawing his attention, just as the major difficuland courteousness-though both are eminently help- ties of education are of concern to everyone...
...religious teachers...
...life...
...an army whose campaign was waged quite as much One must not carry the parallel too far...
...The one are the logical however, have been rather generally agreed upon...
...The round a few major problems which their experience conclusion should have been, "they lived together tells them are important...
...Chemistry, for ously opposed as a journal of our affiliations needs instance, has lightened the industry, making wood- must be to birth control, we are strongly in favor of pulp rank with rags and straw in the manufacture of book control on the part of all authors save a very paper...
...Strenutries, and the leather manufacturies...
...Their lives are passed by any modern engineering...
...Perhaps no where else in modern life is the the facade, too, there is a genuine interest in improveerror of that romanticism which believed mankind ment-in making the "system" more serviceable, could keep on playing soft music without ever strik- more alert, more closely identified with intellectual reing a wrong note so abundantly illustrated as in family sponsibilities...
...In fact, all the world aids in the propagation few-the names of whom both prudence and modesty of knowledge through the medium of the printed page...
...Here is an institution which is also a sacra- religious teacher may rightly be alarmed at certain ment because it is the clearest reflection of the deepest forms of essential doctrine expounded elsewhere, but universal mystery...
...For marriage is a form, while happiness these, and not toward the complexity of practice preis only a quality...
...But for him, as for everyant, even for religious people, if those who engage body, the problem of method is vast and perplexing...
...Certain principles, ones assert that they do not...
...the newer what is being said and written...
...At the present time, there are so many together...
...From vision of "the knowable"-turn so many unstable this most valuable nucleus grew the Congressional souls to disbelief and spiritual vertigo, and from that Library-which originally was intended primarily for day until his untimely death, his life passed in a rhythm the benefit of Congress, but has since far outgrown of prayer, study, and charity...
...rule of Saint Benedict, "when anyone, . . . patiently and with a quiet mind, bears all that is inOFFICIAL and Catholic France has just been ob- flicted on him, things contrary to nature, and even at serving the hundredth anniversary of the death of times unjust, and in suffering all these he neither Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, one of the great- wearies nor gives over the work...
...A riage...
Vol. 4 • September 1926 • No. 20
