Education And School
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And so historians take their mirrors and catch the glitter, and never heed the corruption it gilds. But even this knowledge, which obviously belongs to the more advanced student only, is an invalu- able gain, though, at first sight, we should scarcely think it so, to the Christian ; enabling him to form a truer estimate of mankind and the progress of the human race. Without it he would be at the mercy of every confident assertion about the advance of man towards perfection, and, seeing that man... is advancing now, would easily be led to believe that he was doing so then by his own powers. Historians take their views too often from a few of the best heathen writings, and those, too, written by men who practised very little of what they wrote, and then tacitly compare these writings with the facts of the worst common life 92 EDUCATION [Chap.
of their own day. The scholar, at all events, has his facts too. And wherever history, as it too often does, contrasts the best writings of the best men of the past, with the actual state of the bad in present times, he can at least contrast writings with writings, and men with men.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And so historians take their mirrors and catch the glitter, and never heed the corruption it gilds. But even this knowledge, which obviously belongs to the more advanced student only, is an invalu- able gain, though, at first sight, we should scarcely think it so, to the Christian ; enabling him to form a truer estimate of mankind and the progress of the human race. Without it he would be at the mercy of every confident assertion about the advance of man towards perfection, and, seeing that man... is advancing now, would easily be led to believe that he was doing so then by his own powers. Historians take their views too often from a few of the best heathen writings, and those, too, written by men who practised very little of what they wrote, and then tacitly compare these writings with the facts of the worst common life 92 EDUCATION [Chap.
of their own day. The scholar, at all events, has his facts too. And wherever history, as it too often does, contrasts the best writings of the best men of the past, with the actual state of the bad in present times, he can at least contrast writings with writings, and men with men.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Edward Thring to read onlineMoreLess
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