Remarks on a Course of Education: Designed to Prepare the Youthful Mind for a Career of Honor, Patriotism and Philanthrophy1818 - Education - 10 pages |
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acquaintance acquire acquisition adapted application attention beneficial branch of human CAREER OF HONOR causes chiefly directed ciples clear and comprehensive combined effect commencing Compendious System conclusions conduct consequences constitution cultivation deeply impressed diffuse direct tendency discoveries of science disposition duly prepared elevate enabled energy engage excite exercise faculties feeling future GAYLORD MAY 28 genius Geometry guard HARVARD UNIVERSITY human knowledge human mind imagination important duties influence instruments intel intellectual powers inventions of art laws lect lineament Lordship's love of truth mankind mental ments moral nation Nature pass in review PATRIOTISM AND PHILANTHROPY perversion philanthropist PREPARE THE YOUTHFUL principles PRINTED IN U.S.A. probity and honor producing pupil purpose qualities or circumstances reasoning render require ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY scenes SCHOOL OF EDUCATION social society student sublime susceptible THOMAS MYERS tion U.S.A. GAYLORD ultimate object utility of knowledge varied combinations various virtue whole at once youthful mind
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Page 339 - ... his social deportment. In preparing the youthful mind, therefore, for its future career, it should ever be remembered, that if illumination be useful, virtue is essential ¡ and that the real value of knowledge springs from its alliance with purity of principle. When the understanding is cultivated at the expense of the heart, the consequences are always dangerous, and often fatal. An exclusive cultivation of the affections engenders a fanatical exaltation of feeling ; and a developement of the...
Page 348 - ... anxieties behind, and to feel the pains of sense absorbed in the pleasures of intellect. But, it has been well remarked by an anonymous writer, that, " in proportion to the power of any engine, is the necessity to guard it from perversion : and if works of imagination enable us to pass the flaming bounds of space and time...
Page 340 - ... giving to each its appropriate developement and direction, by instructing youth in all those branches of useful and ornamental knowledge which their stations in life require, and by assiduously and earnestly cultivating those principles which can alone fit the mind for entering on a career of honor, patriotism and philanthropy, when called to take its part in the active scenes of the present life, or lay the foundation of a well-grounded hope of felicity in the life to come.
Page 339 - ... a developement of the intellectual powers alone releases the passions from the curb of principle, and allows them to exercise their baneful sway without control. Hence amusement assumes that importance which is due to utility only -, a depraved wit snatches the palm which integrity alone deserves ; and genius, degraded by abuse, is crowned with those laurels to which probity and honor have an exclusive claim. Thus the endowments which ought to give scope to the noblest powers of the human mind,...
Page 348 - ... to acknowledge its prejudices ; its delusions are dissipated ; the veil is removed from the face of Nature, and more correct ideas relative to the constitution of the universe are obtained. Pursuing the subject to an investigation of the laws by which the move348 Mr.
Page 340 - Christianity, have too generally diffused throughout their most valuable compositions. For notwithstanding the attention of the student is, at this period, chiefly directed to the acquisition of words, and their almost infinitely varied combinations, those must prove the vehicles of ideas ; and it is of the utmost consequence that these 'ideas should...
Page 343 - ... luminous expounders of its constitution, both theoretical and practical ; and of the best writers on political economy, by which its internal resources and external circumstances may be turned to the greatest general advantage. In the study of these subjects three things deserve particular attention ; UK facts, their causes, and their consequences.
Page 344 - ... facts it contains. But, as facts are chiefly valuable, in any practical application, as the connecting links between their causes and effects, to trace events to the sources from which they flow, on the one hand, and follow them to the consequences to which they lead, on the other, should constitute...
Page 348 - Remarles on a [12 ments of the celestial bodies are regulated, and comparing these laws and their phenomena with each other, we are insensibly led to the grand principle of Universal Gravitation, by which not only atoms but worlds are combined into one harmoHious whole.
Page 347 - ... instruments and the powers of analysis to confirm or dispel these doubts. Furnished with the assistance of these, the mind is gradually led to acknowledge its prejudices ; its delusions are dissipated ; the veil is removed from the face of Nature, and more correct ideas relative to the constitution of the universe are obtained.