Address Before the Alpha Delta Phi Society of Miami University (Classic Reprint): On the Study of the Classics - Couverture souple

Samuel Eells

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133166828X ISBN 13 : 9781331668282

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the ideas that shape education, liberty, and moral progress through a lifelong advocate’s voice.

This nonfiction portrait delves into the role of teachers and scholars in guiding a nation. It highlights how learning, character, and civil liberty intersect, and it argues for the lasting impact of education on future generations. In a series of addresses, the text examines the responsibilities of schools, colleges, and universities to cultivate virtue and intelligence. It blends historical reflection with personal recollections, showing how a legal and practical life can still nurture literary and philosophical interests. The work also discusses the power of the Bible and moral ideals as a remedy for society’s ills, while warning against mere codes of morals without inward transformation.

• Framing the educator as a key civic actor who safeguards liberty and knowledge.
• Exploring how learning institutions shape national character and future trust.
• Balancing historical critique with a call for virtue, wisdom, and philanthropy.
• Contemplating the limits of political power without moral culture.

Ideal for readers interested in historical perspectives on education, civic virtue, and the enduring role of teachers in shaping society.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Address Before the Alpha Delta Phi Society of Miami University: On the Study of the Classics

Gentlemen: -

You have called me to address your association on the interesting occasion of its first anniversary. I most gratefully acknowledge the honor of your confidence: I only regret that my ability to serve you is so much less than my desires, and that the duties of this occasion should have fallen upon one who can bring to their discharge little else than good intentions.

In casting about for a topic which might profitably occupy your attention for a few moments, I could not but reflect that the institution of which it is your good fortune to be members, is one erected on the most liberal foundation, and conducted by abilities every way equal to the task: - an institution for which the country has done much, and from which she expects much in return. Neither could I forget that here, in these halls, sacred to learning and education, there stood not long since, one, who advocated an innovation upon the liberal course of instruction adopted here, so far as to exclude from that course the necessity of Classical learning. We all remember with what ability, with what learning, with what candor, with what earnest and fervid eloquence, he poured out on his favorite subject the riches of a mind, every movement of which showed how largely it was indebted to the very studies which it could so ably and eloquently oppose. Most grateful would it be to my feelings, to pause here; and drop a humble tribute to the memory of the scholar, the orator, the philanthropist, the christian: the man whose public virtues were equaled only by his private worth; whom to know, was to venerate and to love.

Well may we apply the beautiful and pathetic lamentation of Horace over Virgil, to the lamented Grimke:

" - - - , cui Pudor, et Justiae soror,
Incorrupta Fides, nudaque Veritas,
Quando ullem invenient parem!
Multis ille bonis flebilis o...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133166828X
• ISBN 13: 9781331668282
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 261
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