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Excerpt from Address to the Graduating Class, MCMXI of the Unitrinian School of Personal Harmonizing Founded by Mary Perry King, at Moonshine, Twilight Park, in the Catskills
Cannot easily express the satisfaction I have in being asked to address the first class formally graduating from this School of Personal Harmonizing. Its establish ment and Prosperity are matters of far greater mo ment to me than the successful issue of any merely private aims and ambitions. Whatever anyone may hope to achieve in the world of art andletters, however disinterested and devoted, must be after all only a partial and individual success, the con tribution of a single mind, of a single pair of hands, to the great cause of human happiness. Labor as we may in the limitless domain of art, we are only humble workmen still, restricted to the narrow confines of our individual power, capable of add, ing all too little to the world's splendid overow,novels, our operas, our poems, our paintings, our statues destined to be forgotten. But here in the establishing of a school for the education of per sonality, our feet are on the foundations of the world, partial aims are merged in those which are universal, and we become corworkers with the Lord of Life. We are no longer merely students acquiring knowledge for our own gratification. No longer merely artists proud in the perishable achievements of our skill, but seers and prophets of a new day, taking part in the creation of that better world which is to be.
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