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Excerpt from Preparations for Peace: An Address Delivered on the Occasion of the Ninety-Seventh Convocation of the University of Chicago, December 21, 1915, and Before the Industrial Club of Chicago on January 27, 1916 What might be called its purely academic interest is greater than any other interest of the student. It pervades the library and the laboratory, the classroom and the lecture hall, and the quiet cloisters of the university. What a compelling stimulus to intellectual activity it is; what a zest it adds to all our studies in physical, political, social, and economic science; to what fierce tests it is subjecting our theories of human progress and social evolution! There is nothing, indeed, so instructive, so absorbing, so essential for us - as individuals and as a nation - to understand as the mighty conflict that is now going on; its causes and its consequences, its horrors and its folly. It is important for all of us to appreciate the reality of its horror. But I am not qualified to picture this horror if I would, and this is not the place or the occasion. It is fitting, how ever, for us to consider its folly, and how we in the future may escape such folly. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 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.