Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1935 / by Nicholas Murray Butler.

  • Nicholas Murray Butler
Date:
1935]
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Credit: Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1935 / by Nicholas Murray Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Andrew Carnegie Centenary1 This is no formal or conventional gathering. We are not here simply because one hundred years have passed. We are here drawn by the force and the power of an affectionate appreciation and understanding of a great personality and a great servant of his fellow-men. In this modern world we are busily engaged in producing new types of human beings for accomplishment and for service. We have known century after century the philoso¬ pher, the poet, the dramatist, the architect, the sculptor, the painter, the discoverer, the statesman. We are now producing, and we are drawn here because our time has produced, the lover of his kind, the man who will give expression to his ideals and his hopes in terms of human service. There is much discussion in every part of the world just now as to our economic principles, our social relationships and our political organization. There are sharp and wide dif¬ ferences of opinion and many things are said in many lan¬ guages, some wise, some foolish, very, very foolish. But among it all, those of us in the Western world particularly who, under the influence of the impulse given us by ancient Greece and ancient Rome, have been moving for more than 2000 years on a reasonably definite path toward the develop¬ ment of character and intelligence and their expression in terms of service—those of us who are in that fortunate posi¬ tion find ourselves under sharp and constant criticism and attack. But, after all, human experience counts for something, counts for much we like to believe, and out of it and from it we learn those new ways of developing intelligence and 1 Delivered at a commemoratory meeting in the New York Academy of Medicine, November 26, 1935, President Butler presiding.
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