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... possessed a hundred years ago . It appears to be an indication that we are reach- ing the crisis of the battle , or rather of the long series of battles , which have been fought over education in a campaign which began long before ...
... possessed a hundred years ago . It appears to be an indication that we are reach- ing the crisis of the battle , or rather of the long series of battles , which have been fought over education in a campaign which began long before ...
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... possessed it prided themselves on having attained the highest culture then within the reach of mankind . And justly . For , saving Dante on his solitary pinnacle , there was no figure in modern literature at the time of the Renascence ...
... possessed it prided themselves on having attained the highest culture then within the reach of mankind . And justly . For , saving Dante on his solitary pinnacle , there was no figure in modern literature at the time of the Renascence ...
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... possess no such sound foundation for a criticism of life as deserves the name of culture . And , indeed , if we were disposed to be cruel , we might urge that the Humanists have brought this reproach upon them- selves , not because they ...
... possess no such sound foundation for a criticism of life as deserves the name of culture . And , indeed , if we were disposed to be cruel , we might urge that the Humanists have brought this reproach upon them- selves , not because they ...
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... possesses in literary or artistic culture a never - failing source of pleasures , which are neither withered by age , nor staled by custom , nor embittered in the recollection by the pangs of self - reproach . If the Institution opened ...
... possesses in literary or artistic culture a never - failing source of pleasures , which are neither withered by age , nor staled by custom , nor embittered in the recollection by the pangs of self - reproach . If the Institution opened ...
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... possess these qualities , no amount of learning will fit him better for his posi- tion ; while the course of life and the habit of mind required for the attainment of such learning may , in various direct and indirect ways , act as ...
... possess these qualities , no amount of learning will fit him better for his posi- tion ; while the course of life and the habit of mind required for the attainment of such learning may , in various direct and indirect ways , act as ...
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Page 312 - History warns us, however, that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions ; and, as matters now stand, it is hardly rash to anticipate that, in another twenty years, the new generation, educated under the influences of the present day, will be in danger of accepting the main doctrines of the
Page 10 - I find myself wholly unable to admit that either nations or individuals will really advance, if their common outfit draws nothing from the stores of physical science. I should say that an army, without weapons of precision and with no particular base of operations, might more hopefully enter upon a campaign on the Rhine, than a man, devoid of a knowledge of what physical science has done in the last century, upon a criticism of life.
Page 74 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...
Page 42 - Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Page 9 - ... we have laid a sufficiently broad and deep foundation for that criticism of life, that knowledge of ourselves and the world, which constitutes culture.
Page 9 - The first, that a criticism of life is the essence of culture ; the second, that literature contains the materials which suffice for the construction of such a criticism. I think that we must all assent to the first proposition. For culture certainly means something quite different from learning or technical skill. It implies the possession of an ideal, and the habit of critically estimating the value of things by comparison with a theoretic standard.
Page 14 - The language of the monks and schoolmen seemed little better than gibberish to scholars fresh from Virgil and Cicero, and the study of Latin was placed upon a new foundation. Moreover, Latin itself ceased to afford the sole key to knowledge. The student who sought the highest thought of antiquity found only a second-hand reflection of it in Eoman literature, and turned his face to the full light of the Greeks.
Page 306 - Professor Huxley writes as follows : — " How far ' natural selection ' suffices for the production of species remains to be seen. Few can doubt that, if not the whole cause, it is a very important factor in that operation . . . On the evidence of...
Page 321 - On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude of connecting links, between the living and extinct inhabitants of the world, and at each successive period between the extinct and still older species, why is not every geological formation charged with such links?
Page 19 - If an Englishman cannot get literary culture out of his Bible, his Shakespeare, his Milton, neither, in my belief, will the profoundest study of Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, give it to him.