The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . in all the nakedness and solitude of meta-physical abstraction. It is passion which is themoving, vitalizing power, and a minimum of brainswill often achieve more, when fired by a strong will,than a vastly larger portion with no energy to set itin motion. Practical men cut the knots which theycannot untie, and, overleaping all logical prelimina-ries, come at once to the conclusion. Men of genius,on the other hand, are tempted to waste time in med-itati
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . in all the nakedness and solitude of meta-physical abstraction. It is passion which is themoving, vitalizing power, and a minimum of brainswill often achieve more, when fired by a strong will,than a vastly larger portion with no energy to set itin motion. Practical men cut the knots which theycannot untie, and, overleaping all logical prelimina-ries, come at once to the conclusion. Men of genius,on the other hand, are tempted to waste time in med-itating and comparing, when they should act instan-taneously, and with power. They are apt, too, togive unbridled license to their imaginations, and,desiring harmonious impossibilities, foresee difficultiesso clearly that action is foregone. In short, theytheorize too much. Genius, to be useful, must notonly have wings to fly, but legs whereon to stand. EDUCATION. 165 EDUCA TION. A little learning is a dangerous thing,Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;These shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,But drinking largely, sobers us AMUEL SMILES says: The educationreceived at school and college is but a be-ginning, and is mainly valuable in so far asit trains us to the habit of continuous ap-<*!§ plication, after a definite plan and ideas into ones head will do thehead no good, no more than putting things into abag, unless it react upon them, make them its own,and turn them to account. It is not enough, saidJohn Locke, to cram ourselves with a great load ofcollections; unless we chew them over again, theywill not give us strength or nourishment. Thatwhich is put into us by others is always far less oursthan that which we acquire by our own diligent andpersevering effort. Knowledge obtained by laborbecomes a possession—a property entirely our greater vividness and permanency of impression issecured, and facts thus acquired become registered inthe
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