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. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter viii. the professor at berlin. It would be hard to say-whether it was as professor or author that the second half of Sitter's life comes out the more distinct and rich in effort and accomplishment. The world knew him in both of these walks; and few ventured to declare, when he lived, which set ...
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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. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter viii. the professor at berlin. It would be hard to say-whether it was as professor or author that the second half of Sitter's life comes out the more distinct and rich in effort and accomplishment. The world knew him in both of these walks; and few ventured to declare, when he lived, which set of duties he fulfilled the more admirably. Now that he is gone, and his books alone remain, the question is harder to solve than ever; and yet one who has known him, and heard him, would be most likely to say that as a teacher he was the greatest. His academical lectures, even in their present cold form, read by us without the inspiring comment offered by his voice and face and gesture, are more effective works than his more ponderous volumes, to which he gave his greatest efforts and his untiring patience. These are not appreciated either in his own country or in foreign lands, though better, of course, in Germany than elsewhere. Yet few are the students, even among professed geographers, who resort daily and hourly to the' Erdkunde.' It is spoken of as an imperishable work, an honour to the age, a stupendous monument that cannot be outgrown; yet few have the patience to draw from it its immense wealth. And I think no one can look at the whole course of Eitter's life, and not regret that so much of it was given to the composition of that colossal work on Asia, whose bulk would be equal to a hundred such volumes as this. Not that any one would underrate the excellences of that great work, parts of which--that relating to the Holy Land, for example--have a unique value; and yet it is as professor--as a great, matured, whole-souled man dealing with the young--that he is on the whole the most able to win admiration. During nearly the whole of...
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