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Terchrr Says No Causa Is Valid Without
Warming Virtues of Compassion and Love
An Alabama horn educator and Greek sc.near. Miss Susan
Parker Cobbs reveals here her pcr-mual creed. This is
one of a series of statements prepar» si lor broadcast by tiimking,
useful people in all walks ol life. 1 he program is pres nied by
Edward it. Marrow over KITII at 8: >3 and 10:30 Alomuiy thru
Frida \ .
By SUSAN PARKER COBBS
Dean of Women
Swarihmore College
It has not boon t n-y for me to
meet this assignment. In the
first plate. 1 am not a vi r\ nr
tiealate person, and then one
has so many beliefs, changing
and fragmented and transitory
beliefs — besides the ones most
central in our lives. I have true
hard to pull out and put into
words m. most central b lief".
1 h me that what I say won't
sou..d t .t’n.er too simple or too
pious.
I know that it is my clot a and
fixed conviction that man lias
within him the force of good and
the power to translate that force
into life. For me, this incans a
pattern of life that makes p r
sonal relat
tarde A pattern that makes nr..1'
beautiful ami attracl;\a tire pi r
1 virtiu s: eouragi . luunilily.
selfishness and iove. 1 used to
smilt at my nn thcr b cause the
tears cami so ri a iilj, Lo h r (yes
when she heard or read of son a
incident that eath-d out tln-se
virtues 1 ■'!.'»• Pt • .hie any mor
because I fnui I havi becomt
more and m >r< >. esponsive in the
same inen it vs ay to the
same kin : of smry.
And so I beli< .. t. ;d I both
can and must vs. rk to achieve
of Socrate. k co coming back to
me: "th- unexamined life is not
worth iving," By examination
we can dis.-over \\hat is our
good, am.l we can realize its
achievement. I know that such
self-cxamii itioi - nc ver been
easy-—Plato maintained that it
was the soul's eternal search. It
seems to me peculiarly difficult
now. In a period of such rapid
material expansion and such
widespread conflicts, black and
white have become grey and will
not easily separate.
There is a belief which fol
lows from this. If 1 have* the
po.rnli il of the good life within
mu' and the compulsion to ex
press it, then it is a power and
compulsion common to all men.
What I must have for myself to
conduct my search, all men must
have: freedom of choice, faith
in the newer and the beneiicient
qualities of trut 1. What fright
ens me nws; today is the denial
co' iiic.se rights, because this can
only come from th denial oi
what seems to me the essential
nature of man. For if my con
\ iction ho ids, ma . is more im
portant than any .lung lie has
created and our great task is to
bring back again into a sub
ordinate position the monstrous
supei'str-icvures of our society.
I hope this way of reducing
our proolems to toe human equa
t >n is not simpiv an o\asion of
: h m. 1 don't ov ;e re .' is. f or
,r.; ,-t of us it is tiie only urea
:s Inch we can work: tile i:u
: . an o w ilh ourseiv es, u it ii
til • people we toueh and through
the two by vicar <u> under
stao,dim. with mankind. 1 be
lit ve tois is the safest starting
point. I watch youn ; peoph
tile. ■ days wrestling with our
mighty probh ms. They are much
mere conc-rued with them and
involved in t.u-m than my gen
c ration of students 'ever was.
Tin y ere deeply aware of the
words 'eqn hity and ‘juAdvd In
their great cies.r to rent v. mug
th y are t rone to forget that
causes arc' people', that no'' it g
matters more than people. They
need to add to their crus;. 1 's
the warmer ami more effecting
virtu s oi compassion and 1<>ve.
And in re again come til os - per
sonal virtue s that bring tears to
the eyes.
One further word. I believe
that the power of good, within
us is real and conn s there from
a source outside and beyond
ourselves. Otherwise, I could not
put my trust so firmly m it.
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