The Graduate College of Princeton With Some Reflections on the Humanizing of Learning (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Graduate College of Princeton With Some Reflections on the Humanizing of Learning "To the Minnow every cranny and pebble, every quality, and accident, of its little native Creek may have become familiar: but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides?" Thomas Carlyle. The Graduate College of Princeton, so long deferred, so lately discussed in public and now at last put into operation, is in spirit and substance an institution for humanizing knowledge in the field of the higher liberal studies. The old story in Montaigne has point to-day. One fine morning, while riding pleasantly across the plain, he met a company of gentlemen and bowed, saying, "Messieurs, good morning," and the leader of the company curtly answered, "We are not Messieurs. My friend here is a grammarian, and I am a logician." It was no place for Montaigne - merely one of the Messieurs. So he rode away in search of more humane companionship. It is not a very long look from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and the pages of Oliver Goldsmith. The lambent wit of his essay on "The Present State of Polite Learning," fit sequel to the tale of Montaigne, plays like a flame, illuminating and scorching the particularist scholars of his time, "the men who contributed to obstruct the progress of wisdom by addicting their readers to one particular sect, or some favorite science. They generally carried on a petty traffic in some little creek; within that they busily plied about, and drove an insignificant ™ but never ventured out into the great ocean of knowledge." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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