Education and the Higher Life
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John Lancaster Spalding. Education and the Higher Life
Education and the Higher Life
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
IDEALS
CHAPTER II
EXERCISE OF MIND
CHAPTER III
THE LOVE OF EXCELLENCE
CHAPTER IV
CULTURE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE
CHAPTER V
SELF-CULTURE
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
RIGHT HUMAN LIFE
CHAPTER VIII
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
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John Lancaster Spalding
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Do not our young men lack noble ambition? Are they not satisfied with low aims? To be a legislator; to be a governor; to be talked about; to live in a marble house—seems to them a thing to be desired. Unhappy youths from whom the power and goodness of life are hidden, who, standing in the presence of the unseen, infinite world of truth and beauty, can only dream some aldermanic nightmare. They thrust themselves into the noisy crowd, and are thrown into contact with disenchanting experience at a time of life when the mind and heart should draw nourishment and wisdom from communion with God and with great thoughts. Amid the universal clatter of tongues, and in the overflowing ceaseless stream of newspaper gossip, the soul is bewildered and stifled. In a blatant land, the young should learn to be silent. The noblest minds are fashioned in secrecy, through long travail like—
"Wines that, Heaven knows where,
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