Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852. Excerpt: ... may leave men bad or even make them worse, the proper use of the faculties, in enlarged science, followed out to its true results, always tends to sobriety of mind, and thoughts of God and immortality. If the reader has yielded patient attention to what has been urged thus far, he has probably met with little which he feels disposed to deny. But he has perhaps been saying to himself: " All this is very good, and very pleasant: so is a fine mansion, so is an independent fortune. But what is all this to me 1 It may do for people of leisure and wealth. But I am a poor young man, with my fortune yet to make, driven before the press of business from morning till night. How can / attempt study, or enter academy or college? The whole scheme is chimerical." Such is perhaps the feeling of many an ingenuous young man: and to this feeling nine out of ten give way. Now it is altogether founded on misapprehension, either as to the kind and measure of mental training that is proposed, or as to the possibility of such training, in connexion with daily employment in the arts or merchandise. It is therefore of the utmost importance, after having shown the desirableness of knowledge, to show that it is attainable. In recommending mental improvement to Young Men, it is not pretended that they can all be equally improved. There are differences in capacity and in circumstances. Neither is it to be expected that many among them should become authors, discoverers, or professors; men like WarBurton, who was a barber's boy; Alexander Murray, who was a shepherd; Henry Wild, the 'Arabic tailor of Oxford; or Don Alberto Lista Y Aragon, equally celebrated as poet and mathematician, who was a silkweaver. One in a million would be a fair proportion for such prodigies. But there is a re...
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