The Scholar's Larger Life (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Scholar's Larger LifeWhen the sisters of Mendelssohn asked him, in Berlin, to recount to them some of his experiences in the Hebrides he seated himself at the piano, saying as he began to play, And this is what I saw. A year later, under the sunny skies of Italy this theme grew into the magnificent Overture to the Caves of Finga but the passion of it possessed him from the day he visited the basaltic caverns of the western isles of Scotland. What men first want is a new interest and when that is given it may voice itself in deeds or in Songs Without Words. There is a difference in ¿avor between two books when, on the one hand a man has something he feels he must say and on the other hand for the sake of being an author he wants to say something. All high edu cation, my young friends, must be self moved. Let us have a good appetite before we take nourishment. Once create a thirst for knowledge and it will find its own satisfaction. An awakening here is the dawn of culture. 'murder will out, exclaims the proverb, but this is no pecularity of murder. Education will out or one 's lack of it. A classical enthusiasm will out and so will what I shall call The Spontaneous Element in Education.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.