Education Not Righteousness
By Editor
Education Not Righteousness.—There was never a falser conception than that educated men must be honest and just men. This idea is voiced in a recent utterance on the Dreyfus question. Says the writer:— “No civilized country could produce a conspiracy of men educated, cultured, and responsible, like the French military chiefs, to stoop to the baseness and infamy of plotting to ruin an insignificant, petty officer.” And more of the same import. But “civilization,” so called, has nothing to do with righteousness. The crimes against justice wrought by “civilized” governments cry to high heaven for vengeance. Education and culture, as the world goes, may be possessed by the wickedest knaves on earth. The devil is both educated and cultured when occasion demands. There is one thing better than knowledge, and that is love of God and man.