This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... musicians contribute largely to swell the ranks of the insane, those whose minds are engaged in more practical study, such as physicians, naturalists, chemists, &c., seldom become inmates of asylums." He fails, however, to draw the evident conclusion, --i.e., the necessity of minimising the time and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... musicians contribute largely to swell the ranks of the insane, those whose minds are engaged in more practical study, such as physicians, naturalists, chemists, &c., seldom become inmates of asylums." He fails, however, to draw the evident conclusion, --i.e., the necessity of minimising the time and effort devoted to the study of words and abstractions, and turning the intellect to the consideration of things. An education based upon Science is therefore no less necessary for national health than it is for training up discoverers and inventors, the class of society whose numbers and efficiency in any country determines its greatness. Had Dr. Churchill duly weighed this part of his subject he would scarcely have written the last sentence of his pamphlet, to wit: --" Then may we hope for the day when mathematics and classics shall stand a chance of competing successfully with athletics and cyclics as the pleasurable pursuit of youths who are determined to make their very best way in the world." Mathematics are of course necessary as a preparatory discipline for the astronomer, the physicist, and perhaps the chemist; but of classics we have had far too much, and it is in consequence of that error that we make comparatively so poor a figure in scientific research. We must cultivate conception and origination in place of expression, --things instead of words, --unless we would as a nation fall hopelessly into the background. Nineteenth Report of the Board of Visitors to the (Melbourne) Observatory, together with the Annual Report of the Government Astronomer. Melbourne: Ferres. From this Report we learn that the weather forecasts are now extended to the northern districts of the colony. The Board strongly advise the introduction of incandescent...
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