The Dartmouth 1868 Vol 2

Author : Dartmouth College
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243413461
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Exercises of Class Day at Dartmouth College, July 21, 1868 (Classic Reprint) written by Dartmouth College and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Exercises of Class Day at Dartmouth College, July 21, 1868 Carlyle, and demonstrate the beauty, or holiness, or dignity of labor, and advocate the building of barns and factories in preference to armories, navy-yards and gun-boats; but to speak of it as a mean and as an indispensable mean to success. Were there need of examples, I should hardly know where to begin to cite or where to end; learned and great men from Newton and Descartes to Sir William Hamilton have, with as much shrewdness as. Modesty, attributed their discoveries more to application and attention than to any prerogative of genius. And there are few more dangerous and destructive words in the dictionary than this word genius; it is picked out by every 'tyro, turned over, weighed, and often bound down to fit the cramped and probably cracked condition of his own cranium. There is' more genius dug out of the earth in the shape of kerosene oil, than was ever born into the world to flaunt for a time a dazzling flame and then go out, leaving a question able, fame, a bad example and one more to the list of human monstrosities. One good lamp, properly used, would be the most prolific producer of geniuses yet devised a half hour at a difficult root is worth more than all the Spanish chateaus ever erected. But to leave our genius dreamily gazing into future honor, fame and position, which like the ignis fatuus rise to vanish, let us follow our worthy knight of the lamp. He fares sumptuously every day with the finest spirits of ancient and modern times he is not content to feed his immortal mind on the dry husks of every-day and common place twaddle when we are at play he is at work, and bye and-bye when he can afford to play we cannot afford to Show our heads, for very shame. 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.