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“To be good is noble but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and no
trouble” said a well known writer. This may account for the greet preponderance of
preaching over practice. We do not mean the preaching which we get from the pulpit,
but that which is given freely and without stint in buses, in the streets and even in
the homes of our land. Where is the parent who does not discover himself telling his
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child not to do just what he himself does regular? How many people are there who
are certain that they know just how to make a fortune, and who tell others so? and
they have never made anything save financial mistakes. The man who never swam a
stroke feels perfectly competent to tell another how to swim. The man who cannot
find his way even to a modest competence knows just how to save the nation from all
its economic ills.
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It is no trouble to preach, but it is considerable trouble to carry out what we
preach. This is so true that the honest preacher preaches to himself even more than
to his hearers in every season. Only the man who is striving to climb the loftiest
heights knows just how difficult is the way. And so the man who climbs as he
preaches will preach all the more earnestly, and the more effectively, because he is
trying to answer his own partyers and work out his own salvation. 
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The value of University for educational purposes lies not principally in its
examination, not even wholly in its teaching, however, admirable that teaching may
be. It lies, and must lie, in the collision of minds between student and student. We
learn at all times of life, but perhaps most when we are young much from our
contemporaries as from anybody else, and when we are young we learn from our
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contemporaries what no Professor, however eminent, can teach us. Therefore, it is
that while I admire that lives admirable beyond any power of mine to express my
admiration, of those solitary students who, under great difficulties, come up to
Edinburg or some other University and without intercourse with their fellows,
doggedly and perseveringly pursue their studies – very often under serious pressure
of home difficulties – their course however admirable, is not course which can give
them to the fullest those great advantages which are possessed by those whose lot is
more happily cast than theirs. I, therefore, associate myself entirely with what Lord
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Rosebery said as to athletics. I do not think that the athletic movement has been
overdone. I believe, on the contrary that the intercourse between students which it
has produced, organizations to which it has given birth, and the good fellowship
which it has given birth, and the good fellowship which it has secured, are of infinite
educational value.
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Our society is built with money for mortal: money is present in every joint of
circumstance. It might be named the social atmosphere, since in society it is by that
alone that man continue to lice and only through that they can reach or affect one
other. Money gives us food, shelter and privacy; it permits us to be clean in person,
opens for us the doors of the theatre, gains us books for study or pleasure, enables
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us to help the distresses of others and puts us above necessity so that we can choose
the best of life. If we have scruples, it gives us an opportunity to be honest; if we have
any bright designs here it is, what will smooth the way to their accomplishment.
Penury is the worst slavery and will soon lead to death. But money is only a means, it
pre-supposes man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps
pleases himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world but has
neither patience to read nor intelligence to see. The table may be loaded and the
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appetite wanting; the pursue may be loaded and the heart empty. He may have
gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him in a great
house and spacious and beautiful denes, he may live as blank a life as any ‘tattered
ditcher’. Without an appetite, without an aspiration, void of appreciation, bankrupt of
desire and hope, there in his great house let him sit and look at his finger. It is
perhaps more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a
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millionaire. Although neither is to be despised, it is always a better policy to learn an
interest than to make a thousand pounds, for the money will soon be spent or
perhaps you may feel no joy in spending it but interest remains imperishable and
ever new.
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In praise of the English village so much has been said, and with such
lavishness of sentiment, that further elastic essays on the recycled porches and the
levied cots are certainly not wanted. As for the aspect, one may say that the English
village has often been extremely lucky. It was not planned, but it came right.
Frequently one notices, especially in the case of a village which climbs a hill, that the
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lines of the walks and roofs ride beautifully with the lines of the land. A genius,
taking thought, could not have patterned it better, there is no greedy, vulgar,
perching on hill tops; the early villagers did not water; whereas the modern week-
ender, building a little country place, loves to possess a prospect. Accordingly, he
pitches on a summit and his prickly villa probably gashes the skyline. The villages,
not wanting ‘views’ created one; the new arrival, seeking a ‘view’, destroys it – at least
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for other people.
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By the end of Edward VII’s reign the motor car was plainly effecting the
conquest of the highway. The private car was now part of every rich man’s
establishment although as yet its price made it a prohibitive luxury for most of the
middle class. But for the adventure some youth there was the motorcycle, a fearsome
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contrivance, prolific of accidents and ear-splitting noises. Already the dignified to
disappear from the roads, and coachmen and grooms, unless mechanically minded,
were finding it more difficult to make a living.

The roads which had gone to sleep since the coming of the railway now awoke
to crowded activity. Cars and motor-cycles dashed along them at speeds which
rivalled those of the express trains and the lorry began to appear. Therefore, the road
system was compelled to adapt itself to a volume and speed of traffic for which it had
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never been intend. Its complete adaptation was impracticable; but the lead-surface
was easily transformed and during the early years of the century the dustiness and
greasiness of the highways were mitigated by tar spraying. To widen and strengthen
the roads and to eliminate blind corners and precipitous gradient s were tasks which
had scarcely been tackled before 1914. The situation was worst of all in towns, were
not only was any comprehensive scheme of street widening usually out of the
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question, but where the congestion and danger were all too frequently enhanced by
the short-sighted zeal of municipal authorities in laying down tramlines.

Yet it was not only the road system that was in need of readjustment the
nervous system of those who used and dwelt by the roads suffered. The noises
incidental to the conversion of roads, into speedways called for a corresponding
tightening up of the nerves; and the pedestrian, especially in the towns, who wished
to preserve life and limb was compelled to keep his attention continually on the
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stretch, to practice himself in estimates of the speed of fast approaching vehicles and
to scuttle or dodge for his life if he ventured off the pavement.
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