CHAPTER XI

SOME UNCONSIDERED ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL TRAINING

We are law-abiding in matters physical and moral—Not so in matters intellectual—Three ultimate facts, not open to question—Limitations of reason—Reason brings logical proof of any idea we entertain—Another fallacy—intellect man’s peculiar sphere, knowledge his proper discovery—Great eras come from time to time—Nothing so practical as great ideas—The formation of intellectual habits—We trust blindly to disciplinary subjects—Some intellectual habits—Meditation—The sustenance of living ideas—Children’s literature—Independent intellectual development of children—Self-selection and self-appropriation—Inherited parsimony in lesson-books—Plato’s educational aim, 113

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