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Page 182 - But the very reverse is time ; for general knowledge renders all particular knowledge more clear and precise. The ignorant man may be said to have charged his hundred hooks of knowledge — to use a rude simile — with single objects ; while the informed man makes each support a long chain, to which thousands of kindred and useful things are attached. The laws of Philosophy may be compared to keys which give admission to the most delightful gardens that fancy can picture ; or to a magic power which...
Page 27 - Just so it is in the mind; would you have a man reason well, you must use him to it betimes, exercise his mind in observing the connection of ideas and following them in train. Nothing does this better than mathematics, which therefore I think should be taught all those who have the time and opportunity, not so much to make them mathematicians as to make them reasonable creatures...
Page 27 - I said above, that the faculties of our souls are improved and made useful to us, just after the same manner as our bodies are. Would you have a man write or paint, dance or fence well, or perform any other manual operation dexterously and with ease?
Page 173 - Physics), as that of the miner, glassmaker, dyer, brewer, &c. ; and some on Physiology (which includes much of Physics and Chemistry), as that of the scientific gardener or botanist, agriculturist, zoologist, &c. The business of teachers of all kinds, and of governors, advocates, linguists, &c., &c., respects chiefly the science of mind. The art of medicine requires in its professor a comprehensive knowledge of all the departments.
Page 128 - The doves have flown to the sheltering eaves, And the nests are dark with the drooping leaves; Twilight gathers, and day is done — How hast thou spent it — restless one ? Playing?
Page 174 - Nature may be considered as a continuous and closely connected system of history, which to be clearly understood must be studied according to the natural order of its parts, just as any common history must be read in the natural order of its paragraphs. But so little has this been known, or at least acted upon, in general, that perhaps no other human plans formed with one object have been so dissimilar and inconsistent as the common plans of education. " The notions on education prevalent in the...
Page 176 - Organic Life, or Physiology ; 4th, Mind ; and, 5th, Measures or Mathematics. From such works, with less trouble than it now costs to obtain familiarity with one new language, a man might obtain a general acquaintance with science.
Page 23 - ... is reiterated, and it is again banished to the nursery. Thus is it punished for being happy, — for employing its powers, — for making its own best efforts for expanding its little mind ; and precisely at the moment when all its faculties are in the best possible...
Page 38 - Yes, dear, now do — because of the orange, you know.' Will it be believed that this chattering had the desired effect upon the boy ? Worked upon by greediness and vanity. he lisped the Lord's Prayer in a sulky, muttering manner, was called a good boy, and went to bed, but without the orange. When he asked for it, ' to-morrow
Page 72 - ... characters and conduct, how much better should we feel ourselves obliged to be, what a different race should we become ! Thousands of actions which are now performed because we think no one sees them or will find out the motives that induced them, would be replaced by such as would bear the daylight. A sound writer observes : " There is nothing that we ought to reject with more unalterable firmness than an action that, by its consequences, reduces us to the necessity of duplicity and concealment....