Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings ..., Volumen64

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American Institute of Instruction, 1894
List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891.

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Página 57 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 72 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 21 - Truth is the summit of being : justice is the application of it to affairs. All individual natures stand in a scale, according to the purity of this element in them. The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel. This natural force is no more to Tie withstood, than any other natural force.
Página 49 - Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us.
Página 124 - ... it is not possible for a Christian man to walk across so much as a rood of the natural earth, with mind unagitated and rightly poised, without receiving strength and hope from some stone, flower, leaf, or sound, nor without a sense of a dew falling upon him out of the sky...
Página 72 - I have always been strongly in favor of secular education, in the sense of education without theology; but I must confess I have been no less seriously perplexed to know by what practical measures the religious feeling, which is the essential basis of conduct, was to be kept up, in the present utterly chaotic state of opinion on these matters, without the use of the Bible.
Página vii - For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
Página 157 - I believe to be essential constituents of education in the highest sense : we must learn to see straight and clear ; to compare and infer ; to make an accurate record ; to remember ; to express Our thought with precision ; and to hold fast lofty ideals.
Página 135 - ... doing! — For indeed, whatever be the outward form of the thing (bits of paper, as we say, and black ink), is it not verily, at bottom the highest act of man's faculty that produces a Book? It is the Thought of man; the true thaumaturgic virtue; by which man works all things whatsoever. All that he does, and brings to pass, is the vesture of a Thought.
Página 20 - The largest part of their power was latent. This is that which we call Character, — a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means.

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