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after man among us, of excellence and capacity and character, closes the
door behind him for the last time with very poor appreciation of the
affection in which he is held by great companies of those who have lived
and labored with him. What a satisfaction to a man crossing what Pro-
fessor Burgess calls the frontier of the eighties, to be told to his face by a
representative company of scholars and university men such as this, of
their affection for his person, of their appreciation for his service, of their
esteem for his scholarship.
The practical man always seems to me like the miner. He goes down
cach morning into his pit with such illumination as comes from the little
lamp which is fixed on the peak of his cap, and he goes about his daily
work with intelligence, with success, with industry, but without the remotest
appreciation of what it is all about. He has no notion of how coal came
to be where it is, or what is going to happen to the daily life and occupa-
tion of man when there is no more coal and some substitute for it has to
be found. He has no suspicion of the intricacies of trade and commerce
and finance that are built upon and grow out of the daily work of his
hands and the hands of those placed like himself. He plays his part in
isolated unconsciousness of the meaning of it all. It is the poet and the
philosopher who understand what it is all about. It is the poet with his
occasional lightning flash of genius who illumines our task ; it is the
ohilosopher who, by grasp upon it, by vision, by insight and power of
interpretation, tells us what it all means. - -
This friend of ours is a philosopher, one of the not too many philosophic
heads among our scholars who in this day of high specialization are, many
of them, working with great industry and capacity on tasks, the meaning
and interpretation of which they know not. Professor Clark has been a
life-long philosopher, an interpreter. He has seen deep down into the root
of principle; he has developed principle; he has applied and interpreted
principle. He has made his place and his fame permanent, not by any
patient and industrious accumulation and reclassification of facts, but by
an insight which puts facts in their framework, in their proportion. He has
led those of us who can follow his illuminating pen to understand the
significance of economic life, of economic organization and of the economic
process. This is what gives him his distinction and makes him in a sense
the leader and founder of a school. -
All over this land there are glad and grateful men of distinction, power
and accomplishment, who are proud to call themselves men who have passed
through his lecture room in years gone by. He is a captain of the mind
who has recruited and trained and organized an army of believers in the
mind and what the mind is and can do.
It is my fortune, happy fortune, to be intimately associated with him as
friend and colleague for more than thirty years and to have seen him in
another relationship where he had opportunity to reveal his power to a
very wide audience. When the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace was organized by Mr. Carnegie seventeen years ago, a plan of
organization was devised which put the work to be done into three classes
or categories or divisions. One was to deal with intercourse and education.