Excerpt from The Literary Miscellany: Or Selections and Extracts, Classical and Scientific, With Originals, in Prose and Verse According to the order of nature, all men being equal, their common vocation is the profession of humanity; and whoever is well educated to discharge the duties of a man, cannot be badly prepared tc'hll up any of those offices which have a relation to him. It matters little whether my pupil be designed for the army, the bar, or the pulpit. Nature has destined us to the offices of numan life, ...
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Excerpt from The Literary Miscellany: Or Selections and Extracts, Classical and Scientific, With Originals, in Prose and Verse According to the order of nature, all men being equal, their common vocation is the profession of humanity; and whoever is well educated to discharge the duties of a man, cannot be badly prepared tc'hll up any of those offices which have a relation to him. It matters little whether my pupil be designed for the army, the bar, or the pulpit. Nature has destined us to the offices of numan life, antecedent to the des tination of our parents concerning the part we ale tp act in society. To live, is the profession I would teach him. Let him first be a man; he will afterwards, when it is necessary, become any thing which a man ought to be. Fortune may remove him from one rank to another, but he will never be out of his place. Our principal study is that of human life; the good and evil of which he who is best able to support, 15, 111 my opinion, the best educated; and hence it fol lows that true education consists less ih precept than action. We begin to instruct ourselves as we begin to live; our education commencing with our being. We should consider our pupil as man in the abstract as exposed to all the various accidents of human life. Considering the instability ofhuman affairs, can any method of education be more absurd than that of bringing up a child as if he were never to set his foot out of his nursery, or as to be perpetually sur rounded bv attendants? In general, little 111010 is thought of m the education of a child than to pron. 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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