. A manual of the principles and practice of road-making: comprising the location, consruction, and improvement of roads (common, macadam, paved, plank, etc.) and rail-roads . azoo Oazette. Important and comprehensive as is the title of this work, we assure our readers it;b no misnomer. A wide gap in the bulwark of this age and this country is greatlylessened by this excellent book. In the first place, the v-iews of the author on educa-tion, irrespective of time and place, are of the highest order, contrasting strongly withthe groveling, time-seeking views so plausible and so popular at the pr
. A manual of the principles and practice of road-making: comprising the location, consruction, and improvement of roads (common, macadam, paved, plank, etc.) and rail-roads . azoo Oazette. Important and comprehensive as is the title of this work, we assure our readers it;b no misnomer. A wide gap in the bulwark of this age and this country is greatlylessened by this excellent book. In the first place, the v-iews of the author on educa-tion, irrespective of time and place, are of the highest order, contrasting strongly withthe groveling, time-seeking views so plausible and so popular at the present d;\ leading purpose of the author is, as he says in the preface, ■ to turn the thoughts olthose engaged in the direction of youth to the fact, that it is the entire soul, in all itsfaculties, which needs education. The views of the author are eminently philosophical, and he does not pretend toenter into the details of teaching; but his is a practical philosophy, having to do withliving, abiding truths, and does not sneer at utility, though it demands a utility thaJtakeB hold of the spiritual part of man, and reaches into bis immortality.— ■3 1 =1 \ lU O o men
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