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Note to Rule 12. p.6.
The time quantity of space time that might be spared – as in the choice of diet – cloathing afforded –
on Sundays would suffice for no inconsiderable course reckoning from infancy to the age of emancipation
of useful study intellectual achievements in which the profit-seeking employment – every thing in a word
understanding has a share. In studies axiom that lies open to choice. As to a new religion, or a new
system of law or a plan for the abolition of all religion, or
of the of all law nothing of this sort. Works will be
In studies the (as in chatting and worse
expected I hope – at least in the way of parenthesis, in
a system of management. and the other
thing) utility not fashion should be the guide to both
In the education of the affluent, usage – aboriginal usage – is still the guide, though
it is beginning to lose somewhat of its influence. What
has been all along taught learnt continues to be taught learnt: – not
to gain the advantage of possessing it – but to avoid the
shame of not possessing it. It is for this cause that Words are preferred to things:
and are among words, dead languages to living ones. Poetry, i: that is
misrepresentation in metre – Oratory i: that is misrepresentation
for the purpose of inflammation – Nonsense and quibbles
upon words, under the name of philosophy – History,
the history of times to which our own are happily
as unlike as possible – ⊞ ⊞ Pictures of manners of which it is an advantage to be ignorant – all this be driven by into the
into the tender mind through the medium of a dead language –
Poetry, which is of use to nobody any farther than as
it gives pleasure – – Philosophy and exhibitions
of manners worse than useless – Oratory and History.
Of use to him but those who were intended for politicians
all this, extracted by hard labour from languages which nobody speaks – driven into the tender mind through the medium of a dead language –
Such such are the acquirements, of which in the education what
is termed a liberal education, is indispensably; and almost
exclusively, composed. This is what must be learnt
at any rate – and a dozen or a score of the best years
of life are not thought too much to sacrifice to it. What is of real
use⊞ ⊞ the of an acquaintance with the realities that are surround us is regarded as a sort of surplusage, a sprinkling of which may or
may not be thrown in or not, as it may and for
which a few months – or weeks – or days – are as much
as can be spared. – Reasons for this do not exist: causes
are not difficult to find. At the dawn revival resurrection of literature – this was
I say of literature – for birth, not resurrection, was wanting to
some
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