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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER: A LECTURE. I Stand before you this evening to adduce some considerations connected with the right formation or malformation of the Human Character. It is not improbable that some of the views which to my mind are those of evident truth may to some among you wear the semblance of novelty ? of extravagance ? or, more strictly, of what the discreet and proper world has doomed to perdition under the vague but blighting designation of Ultraism. I say it may be so, because I am aware that each observing soul forms a world of its own, or at least establishes its own stand-point from which to look abroad on the universe; while the infinitely larger number who have forfeited by non-use their right of independent thought?who, never venturing a glance at Nature and Truth through their own, but always through others' eyes?whereby that which was Truth to the actual dis- cerner becomes but its faint and imperfect shadow to them ? will instinctively revolt at any view of the moral universe which professes to discover and hold up to the light that which they have never perceived, and thereby implies a rebuke to their blindness. I desire, therefore, to premise that, essentially, whatever of the philosophy I shall endeavor to set before you this evening shall seem original and peculiar is not mine by any right of discovery or authorship, but only by that cordial acceptance which the inquiring mind gives to all truth. I have shunned rather than sought novelty, so far as is consistent with the lesson I would inculcate; and if I shall be so fortunate as to present to any of you new ideas or illustrations ? above all, if any of my views shall appear to any of you forcible or striking?you will do but justice in giving credit for its suggestion to those who have l...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217221603
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 138
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217221602
  • Publisher Date: 13 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 259 gr


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