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. 1914 Excerpt: ...goal. This fact all the great teachers of the world appreciated. It gave distinctiveness to their life and work. For Buddha life is the suppression of the self. Plato does not think so at all: for him it consists in the vision of eternal ideas. The exercise of the reason is for Aristotle the highest ecstasy possible to ...
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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. 1914 Excerpt: ...goal. This fact all the great teachers of the world appreciated. It gave distinctiveness to their life and work. For Buddha life is the suppression of the self. Plato does not think so at all: for him it consists in the vision of eternal ideas. The exercise of the reason is for Aristotle the highest ecstasy possible to the soul. Epicurus sees pleasure as the thing to be desired. For Goethe, the "highest good" is devotion to the well-being of humanity, and its distinctive marks are sacrifice, charity, and heroism. Kant makes it to consist in good will. Jesus is no exception to this rule. He too sees clearly in his own eye what should be the end of human progress. "He declared," says Dr. Brumbaugh, "that the end of the education of the human soul is to fit it to live in harmony with the will of God." The end of Christian culture is Christian character. The aim of our educational processes, therefore, should be toward Christ. In the development of its religious nature every side of the child will be perfected and blessed. In realizing itself as a child of God it will secure creditable place, prominence, usefulness, and influence everywhere in the social order. The attainment of virile Christian character carries with it the promise and guarantee of beatitude everywhere. So strongly has Christ impressed thoughtful men and women with this fact that many believe if the child is properly nurtured and trained no risk need be taken as to the future of man. "Take care of the children," says Nolan R. Best, our distinguished American journalist, "and the world will take care of itself. The nation which looks most diligently to the welfare of childhood will cap the climax of history." Proper tutelage the first seven year...
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