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Paperback, [EAN: 9781334944338], Forgotten Books, Forgotten Books, Book, [PU: Forgotten Books], Forgotten Books, Excerpt from The Christian Examiner and General Review, 1840, Vol. 27Tm: subject of this Essay is Reading. This is, to speak technically, the great. School of modern manhood. It is the continuation of that school, in which it is the privilege of our children to be brought up. Of our own country, in particular, we may say, speaking for the mass of the people, that it is the great reading country of the world. It is high time that we should enter into some serious consideration of the means by which this reading privilege may be turned to the best account. It occupies too much time to be left out of the moral account of life. Great indeed is the privilege; and when we think of nations where few of the mass of the p80 18 can read; when we think of the ages, when almost none 011) any class could find anythin on the pages of a book but hyeroglyphics, dark as those 0 the Egyptian obelisks; when we think of the many heavy hours that must pass in houses where a book never en ters; we cannot too highly prize our advantage. But that, which constitutes the signal advantage of modern times, is not an advantage only. It is an opportunity also; and an opper tunity for what? This question I shall attempt in some meas ure to answer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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., 12290, Christian Books & Bibles, 12059, Bibles, 265042, Bible Covers, 172810, Bible Study & Reference, 12149, Biographies, 12292, Catholicism, 5412659011, Children's & Teens, 16009761, Christian Denominations & Sects, 12333, Christian Living, 12360, Churches & Church Leadership, 172800, Education, 7259428011, History, 172806, Literature & Fiction, 12380, Ministry & Evangelism, 12404, Protestantism, 332930011, Romance, 12449, Theology, 12465, Worship & Devotion, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10114, Essays, 10108, Essays & Correspondence, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 22, Religion & Spirituality, 12762, Agnosticism, 12764, Atheism, 12279, Buddhism, 12290, Christian Books & Bibles, 12506, Hinduism, 12522, Islam, 12540, Judaism, 12489, Literature & Fiction, 12621, New Age & Spirituality, 12689, Occult & Paranormal, 12735, Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, 12761, Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts, 1873, Religious Art, 12779, Religious Studies, 12809, Worship & Devotion, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

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[EAN: 9781334944338], New book, [PU: Forgotten Books], Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. Excerpt from The Christian Examiner and General Review, 1840, Vol. 27 This distinction, I admit, is very general. But I think it will be found, without being very accurate, to answer the practical purpose which I have in view. Reading, doubtless, may com bine both instruction and amusement, and the reader may seek both. In history, biography, and ti avels, he may often find both. But every one must be aware, that there 13 a great deal of reading among us, merely for entertainment. Novels are commonly read with no other view or thought. On the other hand, I wish it to be considered, that there is a kind of readin which is of a far higher character. A man may take a booe with the express intent to think over it. His purpose is not passively to receive what the book communicates, but to think, to examine what the book says; to give his mind a task; to strengthen his powers. His mind is a crucible and what he takes into it, is to be melted, and moulded into a form that makes it his own; makes it his own, not by reception, but by re-formation not by simple transfusion, but by thorough trans mutation. And no mind is worth much, without something, more or less, of this habit. This is the essential characteristic of an original mind. It is not, as many seem to suppose, that its thoughts are absolutely new; that no such thoughts ever entered the human mind before; but that it re-forms, re-arranges old thoughts, and presents them in new aspects and applica tions. I dwell upon this point a moment, for in this new coun try, where we are apt to suppose that many things are new, which are old enough, it is needful that this matter be under stood. Sciolists, dreamers, fanciful and extravagant men, may have conceptions so strange, that it may seem to them and to others, that nobody ever thought the like before; and in some sense, it is very possible that nobody ever did; one may hope so, at least but the truly comprehensive and original mind knows that it is working with materials as old as the creation and that not its materials, but only its method of working, can be new, or peculiar to itself. All true progress is but the re production of the old, aye, and commonly of the well known and familiar, in new forms. 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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