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Title: Education and the Higher Life

Author: J. L. Spalding

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EDUCATION AND THE HIGHER LIFE

BY BISHOP SPALDING.

EDUCATION AND THE HIGHER LIFE. 12mo. $1.00.

THINGS OF THE MIND. 12mo. $1.00.

MEANS AND ENDS OF EDUCATION. 12mo. $1.00.

THOUGHTS AND THEORIES OF LIFE AND EDUCATION. 12mo. $1.00.

OPPORTUNITY AND OTHER ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES. 12mo. $1.00.

SONGS: CHIEFLY FROM THE GERMAN. 16mo, gilt top. $1.25.

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

CHICAGO.

EDUCATION
AND
THE HIGHER LIFE

BY

J. L. Spalding

Bishop of Peoria

The business of education is not, as I think, to perfect the learner
in any of the sciences, but to give his mind that freedom and
disposition, and those habits, which may enable him to attain every
part of knowledge himself.--LOCKE

SIXTH EDITION

CHICAGO

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

1900

_Copyright_,

BY A. C. MCCLURG AND CO.,

A. D. 1890.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. IDEALS 7

II. EXERCISE OF MIND 30

III. THE LOVE OF EXCELLENCE 51

IV. CULTURE AND THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE 73

V. SELF-CULTURE 92

VI. GROWTH AND DUTY 117

VII. RIGHT HUMAN LIFE 144

VIII. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION 172

EDUCATION
AND
THE HIGHER LIFE.

CHAPTER I.

IDEALS.

A noble aim,
Faithfully kept, is as a noble deed.

WORDSWORTH.

To few men does life bring a brighter day than that which places the
crown upon their scholastic labors, and bids them go forth from the
halls of the Alma Mater to the great world's battlefield.