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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... EDUCATION FOR MANHOOD The well known and well worn maxim of the poet, Lowell: "New occasions teach new duties, Time makes ancient good uncouth," expressed, with practical shrewdness, a transient phase, rather than the permanent form of truth. Good in the positive, or even in the comparative, degree may, indeed, be limited by circumstances, time and place; but superlative good is of the nature and essence of things eternal. A shallow philosophy emphasizes the evanescent phase of things rather than their permanent and enduring quality. To the superficial observer the world would seem to be one continuous panorama of evanescent issues. Practical wisdom would seem to be the only effective wisdom. Opportuneness seems to be the controlling virtue. The man who is wise in his day and generation must catch the manners living as they rise, or they will forever elude his grasp. The wisdom of one age becomes the folly of the next. The schoolboy of to-day laughs at the erudition of the ancient sage. The theories which passed as marvels of knowledge a generation ago are now regarded as curious survivals of the intellectual dark ages. Celebrated works on science, philosophy and social polity which once held the world under the dominion of their dogma are now relegated to the moth and dust of oblivion. The path of progress is strewn with the derelict of discarded and discredited theories. The science of yesterday, to-day, is science but falsely socalled. "We call our fathers fools, so wise we grow, Our wiser sons, no doubt, will call us so." But a deeper philosophy gives a more comprehensive and far reaching vision. Essential truth transcends the mutation of time and the vicissitude of condition, and perdures from everlasting to everlasting. The waves...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230319956
- ISBN 13 9781230319957
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages42
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