Self-culture and Self-reliance, Under God the Means of Self-elevation |
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... necessary for man's highest cultivation . While it should be remem- bered to the honour of the aristocracy , that many of them toil hard in parliament , and furnish valuable contributions to science and literature , and indeed this ...
... necessary for man's highest cultivation . While it should be remem- bered to the honour of the aristocracy , that many of them toil hard in parliament , and furnish valuable contributions to science and literature , and indeed this ...
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... necessary to getting on in life . There is no doubt that boldness , the impudence and self - importance that perpetually tries to elbow others out of the way , is helpful to some people in material prosperity . But they never gain a ...
... necessary to getting on in life . There is no doubt that boldness , the impudence and self - importance that perpetually tries to elbow others out of the way , is helpful to some people in material prosperity . But they never gain a ...
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... necessary to completeness in culture . Mr. Matthew Arnold , in that singular book of his , Culture and Anarchy , gives us his ideal of true culture , and he may perhaps be taken as the representative of the theory of literary culture ...
... necessary to completeness in culture . Mr. Matthew Arnold , in that singular book of his , Culture and Anarchy , gives us his ideal of true culture , and he may perhaps be taken as the representative of the theory of literary culture ...
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... necessary to know the best in order to reach and realise the highest perfection of human nature . Again he says , if a man gets a fresh and free play of the best thoughts upon his stock notions and habits , he has got culture . ' Yes ...
... necessary to know the best in order to reach and realise the highest perfection of human nature . Again he says , if a man gets a fresh and free play of the best thoughts upon his stock notions and habits , he has got culture . ' Yes ...
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... before the severe temptations of life . It is only necessary to think of the men we have known , and to read the biographies of literary men , to see that Mr. Arnold's theory of culture utterly fails in THEORIES OF CULTURE . 25.
... before the severe temptations of life . It is only necessary to think of the men we have known , and to read the biographies of literary men , to see that Mr. Arnold's theory of culture utterly fails in THEORIES OF CULTURE . 25.
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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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