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... ignorance and incompetence of its advocates and professors ? Oh that it were possible to say something that would effectually stir Christian young men belonging to evangelical Churches , and especially to stir the young 8 CULTURE AND ...
... ignorance and incompetence of its advocates and professors ? Oh that it were possible to say something that would effectually stir Christian young men belonging to evangelical Churches , and especially to stir the young 8 CULTURE AND ...
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... ignorance ; but for some the struggle is very great as compared with others . The rich have means and opportunities which the poor do not possess . It is easier for men who in early life attended some good grammar school , or some ...
... ignorance ; but for some the struggle is very great as compared with others . The rich have means and opportunities which the poor do not possess . It is easier for men who in early life attended some good grammar school , or some ...
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... Ignorance , ' for proof and illustration . Properly to train and cultivate the mind implies a good degree of self - control , self - restraint , and self - repression ; which , to say the very least , is a step in the right direction ...
... Ignorance , ' for proof and illustration . Properly to train and cultivate the mind implies a good degree of self - control , self - restraint , and self - repression ; which , to say the very least , is a step in the right direction ...
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... ignorance in intellectual dwarfishness . But now men are more awake to the fact that everything which tends to promote the mental , moral , and social well - being of man is really deserving of their serious and earnest attention . All ...
... ignorance in intellectual dwarfishness . But now men are more awake to the fact that everything which tends to promote the mental , moral , and social well - being of man is really deserving of their serious and earnest attention . All ...
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... ignorance for the most part begets . Surely it cannot be doubted that general knowledge , as we have already ... ignorance , dull , stupid , unreflecting ignorance , is one of the worst enemies of individuals and communities . What has ...
... ignorance for the most part begets . Surely it cannot be doubted that general knowledge , as we have already ... ignorance , dull , stupid , unreflecting ignorance , is one of the worst enemies of individuals and communities . What has ...
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Page 31 - In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways ; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws.
Page 134 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God...
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Page 32 - For that indirect self-preservation which we call gaining a livelihood, the knowledge of greatest value is— Science. For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in— Science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present, without which the citizen cannot rightly regulate his conduct, the indispensable key is— Science. Alike for the most perfect production and highest enjoyment of art in all its forms, the needful preparation is still— Science....
Page 53 - We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
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Page 25 - ... a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world...
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