Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from University of Ottawa Review
It is necessary to be prepared for severe, uninterrupted, life long competition. It is necessary to do more than to learn one's language, French or English, or even both. It is necessary to go on steadily from elements to rhetoric, and thence to the key stone of all education, Philosophy, which is supposed to terminate a proper collegiate course, but which is but the beginning of a life of study, to end only with one's existence.
Facts sre said to be everything, but a knowledge of facts is of little value unless they may be compared with others. And how can comparisons be safely made. And how can facts be fitted into their proper places and have their proper value, without a knowledge of the rules whereby they may be located and their value estimated P The man who knows ten million facts, and has them stored away in a most retentive memory, to be thrown at us like isolated texts of Scripture, without their contexts and without their bearings, may yet be an uneducated man, while another, who may not know half a dozen facts, but who knows their value and bearing, may be an educated man.
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