The Call of Education Biological Integrity (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Call of Education Biological Integrity The printing press was invented in 1445. At that time I presume that everyone thought that it was going to he a wonderful thing for the world. And perhaps it has been. I do not know. Undoubtedly the sole criterion must be the basic character of the message - the amount of pertinent and essential truth that the printed word is daily sifting into the mind of man, and permanently into the thought impress of civilization. But judged on this basis I often wonder - because after nearly five centuries I see vastly more of error and ignorance and superficiality projected by the printing press than I do of truth. As a result of those centuries, a cast of mental darkness and mental inertia, like some mysterious mesmeric spell, seems everywhere to endure in the human mind as no granite has ever endured in any quarry. Indeed at times it would almost seem as if the chief function of the printing press has been to give voice to things that are worthless and destructive - and to perpetuate things that are not so. Nor is our own immediate day exempt from this charge in any way - for there has perhaps never been a time in history when there were more writers and speakers, and fewer profound thinkers than at this very hour. In fact the utter mediocrity of present-day thought and leadership is one of the most impeaching realities with which any age was ever marked. Well, it is in the midst of such conditions and such an age that I give this book to the world. I do so with the profoundest conviction that there is nothing of such monumental importance on this earth today as for every civilization to get into its head the correct notion as to what education should consist of - and for every individual to get into his head a like notion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.