Excerpt from A Memorial of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Universty of Michigan: Held in Commencement Week; June 23 to June 27, 1912 On this Lord's Day and in this presence, speaking to you who are so soon to leave your Alma Mater for God - given tasks out in the world, I venture to challenge your attention to the reverse side of the picture and to point and emphasize convictions on what I shall call The Optimism of Unrest. In the last analysis the problems confronting us are spiritual in their issues, though we have to deal largely with ma terial facts and conditions to determine these issues, as always, the material, or temporal, being merely the shell or covering under which lies the spiritual, the eternal truth. 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.