This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... are first Peers and Members of Parliament, next Professors, Lecturers, and Masters, and finally mere Sirs, Commanders, Fellows, and Commoners more or less distinguished) emphasized the notion of a natural aristocracy, in the best sense of that word. It says: "Nor can we for a moment admit that the boys and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... are first Peers and Members of Parliament, next Professors, Lecturers, and Masters, and finally mere Sirs, Commanders, Fellows, and Commoners more or less distinguished) emphasized the notion of a natural aristocracy, in the best sense of that word. It says: "Nor can we for a moment admit that the boys and young men of higher aspirations, who would be ready to follow knowledge in a high and worthy spirit, should be sacrificed by an ignobly-concerned system to the inferior-minded--if there are such--who can only be tempted to follow her because she means a sum of money, the public triumph of a successful class, or the gaining of a place. For those who can only be induced to work for such motives, let their friends provide in some special fashion such rewards and stimulants as they may find necessary, but for the higher type of boys and young men," etc. Apparently, then, the Principle of the Survival of the Fittest is about to be repudiated; careers are no longer to be open to talent merely; education does not consist in the simple cramming of heterogeneous or ill-assorted knowledges; a favorable presumption is again to be created by generations of culture; the theory of heredity is to be elevated into some prominence; and temperament, character, natural fitness are to be consulted in the selection of a man for public or otherwise honorable employment, as well as the permission of a certain array of facts, somewhat arbitrarily chosen from the whole field of human knowledge. Apres nous le deluge. 4. Moreover, money prizes are no longer to be had in honor. This seems to be an outcry against materialism, and an endorsement of the theory that human beings have souls, perhaps immortal souls. Yet we are not mistaken. The Protest says: "It is most...
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