Addresses: Delivered at the Inauguration of Chamberlain, LL. D., To the Presidency of Iowa State Agricultural College, November 9, 1886 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Addresses: Delivered at the Inauguration of Chamberlain, LL. D., To the Presidency of Iowa State Agricultural College, November 9, 1886

What might not our schools of learning have done for the race, had they twenty centuries ago begun the kind of work, studied the class of subjects, and used the modes and means of research and training now found in our best technological schools. For twenty centuries the schools, one might almost say, redug the mines, replowed the fields, and threshed again the straw of Grecian learning. They imitated the Greeks, instead of emulating their originality. They garnered precious seed, and, fearing to plant it lest it should be lost to the world, they wrapped it as in the winding-sheet of an Egyptian mummy and kept it safe for centuries. Like Lot's wife, they looked back, and like her they seemed turned into pillars of salt, salt to preserve the learning of the past.

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