Excerpt from The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Vol. 6: June 1910 Our age has lost, or is losing, its faith in principles and standards. We of course admit the indefeasible right of the majority to deter mine the prevailing fashion, either in biology or bonnets. Dollars and votes furnish a practical rule for the measurement of practical success. In physical things, we accept' on faith the standards pre scribed by the exact sciences. But for the spiritual values that elude these tests we have no fixed measures that we trust, and we are skeptical of their existence. Our temper is that which the his torians of philosophy ascribe to the generation of sophists whom Plato satirized. There is no standard but subjective opinion, and the plausible eloquence of the speaker who can carry his audience with him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.