Thoughts On Habit And Discipline
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A capacity for such selection, and such resolution, is indeed partly of a moral character ; for it never fails to be connected with a disposition to decide and to persevere. But it is also partly intellectual, requiring first, a clear sight of the point before us; and secondly, that noble faculty of concen- trating the mental powers, without which no man 184 GOOD HABITS lias ever occuj)ied a truly elevated place in the lational world. This faculty of the intellect, as \\e\\ as the moral qualiti...es just now alluded to, have been remarkably disjilayed in their several and distinct pursuits, by a Galileo, a Newton, a Milton, a Person, a Howard, and a Clarkson.
When the late Sir James Mackintosh was visiting the school for the deaf and dumb, at Paris, then under the care of the Abbe Sicard, he is said to have addressed this question, in writing, to one of the pupils — "Doth God reason?" The pupil for a short time appeared to be distressed and confused, but presently wrote on his slate the following answer; "To reason is to hesitate, to doubt, to inquire — it IS the highest attribute of a limited intelligence.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A capacity for such selection, and such resolution, is indeed partly of a moral character ; for it never fails to be connected with a disposition to decide and to persevere. But it is also partly intellectual, requiring first, a clear sight of the point before us; and secondly, that noble faculty of concen- trating the mental powers, without which no man 184 GOOD HABITS lias ever occuj)ied a truly elevated place in the lational world. This faculty of the intellect, as \\e\\ as the moral qualiti...es just now alluded to, have been remarkably disjilayed in their several and distinct pursuits, by a Galileo, a Newton, a Milton, a Person, a Howard, and a Clarkson.
When the late Sir James Mackintosh was visiting the school for the deaf and dumb, at Paris, then under the care of the Abbe Sicard, he is said to have addressed this question, in writing, to one of the pupils — "Doth God reason?" The pupil for a short time appeared to be distressed and confused, but presently wrote on his slate the following answer; "To reason is to hesitate, to doubt, to inquire — it IS the highest attribute of a limited intelligence.
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