Education And Literature in Virginia. An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, 18 June, 1850
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language, as the discipline of the mental pow- ers to an aptitude of thinking, and to the perception of the most delicate shade of moral excellence. So, too, in the 27 study of mathematics, we should apply ourselves not merely to angles and cubes, but to the attainment of a mode of thought which will make us able to apply severity of rea- soning to the most exalted of all human researches — the pursuit of actual truth. And the same rule may be applied with equal advantage to mental philosophy, ...and to the aspiring researches of the astronomer, that the design in directing the telescope and seeking out the hidden motives of human action, is not so much to achieve a great discove- ry or to show " how noble a piece of work is man," as to arrive at juster conceptions, through such agencies, of the attributes of that high IntelHgence, whose handiwork is shown in the firmament and whose glories are declared in the heavens. There is yet another view of collegiate education that I feel myself impelled to take, and here, gentlemen, you will pardon me, if I assume the Mentor, for I shall speak to a certain extent from tlie records of a sad experience.
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