Address on Education: Before Franklin Literary Association, Brooklyn, L. I., November 24th, 1879 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Address on Education: Before Franklin Literary Association, Brooklyn, L. I., November 24th, 1879

There are many who have traveled in Eu rope 'who will tell you the length, breadth, and height of cathedrals and the number of statues which decorate them. They have learned their guide-books by heart, and have kept diaries of things they supposed they had' seen. Can a mind see a picture as it really is without an artist's eye? Are there no beauties hidden in architectural effects?

Bacon says Reading makes a full man. So does eating make a full stomach. Read ing no more than food makes for health unless there be good digestion. What a man reads, as well as what he eats, depends upon the powers of assimilation. If a/man's faculties be healthy and strong, he may read much without injury. What is wanted most is men tal vigor, power of concentration, a training which vitalizes all the faculties, and not a head crowded full like a waste-paper basket.

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