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clutching at any novelty merely because it is a novelty. There are
people today who seem to think that the word "modern" is descriptive
of final values, whereas it only implies an historical judgment. "Modern"
means only that a thing belongs to our own day. It may be good,
but it is not necessarily good, for we are not wiser than our fathers.
The educated mind has another safeguard, for it knows something of the
past and it realises that many of the things which masquerade as novelties
are fallacies as old as the hills. There has never been a time,
I think, when so many ancient heresies have been resurrected and propounded
as new revelations. (Capercailzie stor ).

There is a second duty, which is more of a moral duty.
Dwellers on a frontier dare not be selfish or they will defeat their
purpose. They must be of the spending type, conscious of their obligations
to their community, conscious that their own interests can never
be fully realised except in the promotion of the communal interest,
that they are bound one to another in a disciplined service. Borderers
are always clannish in the best sense; they realise the importance of
the community as against the individual interest, for otherwise they
could not exist. Now that is the foundation of that fine character
which we call the gentleman. It is the boast at home of our
great schools that they produce gentlemen, or at least they try to.
The word has many unpleasant connotations, but properly interpreted it
is a great ideal, and it still remains one of the principal aims of
true education. I should go further and say it is the business of all
our schools to produce not only gentlemen but aristocrats. But I must
define an aristocrat in my own way. An aristocrate is a man who gives