The Education of the Heart

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Excerpt from The Education of the Heart: An Address Delivered Before the Phrenakosmian Society of Pennsylvania College, February 22, 1843Our first business will be to explain, and to ex bibit our subject in its various aspects.You are here for the purpose of obtaining an ed ucation. But the mere acquisition of knowledge, so far from constituting education, is, however im portant, but a small section of the whole process. Besides the accumulation of intellectual wealth, one of the greatest results attained by the syste matic and spirited pursuit of liberal studies, is, the discipline which the mind receives, the power which it acquires, not only of employing at will, and for definite purposes, the mass of treasure which it has collected in the vast mine of human knowledge, but of prosecuting, with increasing success, its search for greater store This part of education, then, in vests the successful student, according to the time worn adage, with an extent of power, to which it is impossible to assign, within a certain sphere, any fixed limits.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.