Excerpt from On the Right Use of Books: A Lecture You say that no department of literature con tains so much mischievous rubbish. It is very true, and the only remedy is such a training of the popu lar taste as would make such rubbish intolerable; and I know Of no more hopeless feature in'the rather hopeless-looking subject of popular education, than its failure to train the imagination, the greatest of all educational forces. IS it owing to the remains in us, here in New England, of that old Puritanism which hated every ...
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Excerpt from On the Right Use of Books: A Lecture You say that no department of literature con tains so much mischievous rubbish. It is very true, and the only remedy is such a training of the popu lar taste as would make such rubbish intolerable; and I know Of no more hopeless feature in'the rather hopeless-looking subject of popular education, than its failure to train the imagination, the greatest of all educational forces. IS it owing to the remains in us, here in New England, of that old Puritanism which hated every thing beautiful because it could only associate it with that license and lawlessness against which it was the grim and unlovely protest Let us hold the virtues of our Puritan Fathers in all honor, for they were the salvation of the nation but let us discriminate. These same Puritan Fa thers of ours were stone-blind to much that consti tutes the very essence of all true education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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