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"If man is not created for happiness, what is he created for?" began the Reverend Professor Lawrence Pearsall Jacks in his lecture yesterday afternoon on "The Challenge of Labor," a sequel to his previous lecture on "Twenty-three centuries ago Aristotle asked himself this same question," he declared, "and decided that man was made for action."
Dr. Jack's lecture yesterday was the second of a series of four Southworth Lectures for which he came to this country. The lecture was originally scheduled for Andover Chapel, but was so overcrowded that the audience was forced to migrate to the New Lecture Hall at the last minute. To avoid a similar occurrence Dr. Jacks will give his lecture on "The Challenge of Evil' and Humanity" at 2.30 o'clock today in Emerson D instead of Andover Chapel as was previously announced. At 8 o'clock this evening he will give his last lecture, The Challenge of Death" in the New Lecture Hall.
Finds Man Made for Fighting
"Man the first creature and is made for action, for achieving the highest excellence in a thousand tasks, and for resisting and delivering hard blows," continued Dr. Jacks. "Turning to the state we find that it is but another creature coming out of the first for the pursuit of excellence, in essence an educational enterprise. All this was included in Aristotle's philosophy.
"The action of the modern world is what we call labor. The challenge of labor means not labor of any particular class but of the community laboring as a single unit. Culture and labor should be united as in ancient times when there was no difference between artists and artisans. I plead for an education within and part of the labor of the world," he concluded, "not wholly separated from it. I also plead that divorce may be done away with and that all labor for advancement."
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