Excerpt from Cross Purposes, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel A matter-of-fact, heavy, sensible education, without anything to enliven the imagination, will make Jack a very dull boy. He learns in the wise little nursery-books to know for certain that a sheep, when killed, becomes mutton, and the wool makes fian nel or, in more mature years, that there are three angles to a triangle; but his mind runs on from youth to age like a railway between embankments, rather than like a flowery path across the meadow. About the Publisher ...
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Excerpt from Cross Purposes, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel A matter-of-fact, heavy, sensible education, without anything to enliven the imagination, will make Jack a very dull boy. He learns in the wise little nursery-books to know for certain that a sheep, when killed, becomes mutton, and the wool makes fian nel or, in more mature years, that there are three angles to a triangle; but his mind runs on from youth to age like a railway between embankments, rather than like a flowery path across the meadow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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