done. And so who can know what ideas have been untried, what thoughts are now original, what experiments have already been made in life, what has already been proved worthless, in society, Cheap Christian Louboutin overnment, and legislation, what has proved good and wise in the practical movements of former generations, except him who has diligently studied the past in its great events and great thoughts; in its history and its literature. What unspeakable folly, what consummate madness, nay, what impious tampering with the dearest interests of a state, to dash right onward in an untried path of experiment, without once opening the records of the past to see whether there be no word of wisdom there, to aid us on our way, to save us from devious courses, which have proved fatal to others, — to indicate the surest and shortest road to success and happiness!There may be charts in that great volume of the past which accu* rately mark the rocks and shoals where individuals Tory Burch Outlet r states have made shipwreck. Would it not be well to open it? Encourage the scholar to look into it, and to teach that which it teaches. Believe me the time will not be lost and mis-spent.If one is a writer and speaker, and a leader of public opinion, would it not be well for him especially to enlarge the scope of his practicalisra so far as to know whether he be uttering really new truths, or truths which have been already well taught; and whether he may not gain
something by making that truth, or idea, which ho supposes to be his own, and original with him, the suggestive text of something truly original; the starting point for a more advanced exploration of thought MBT Shoes Clearance nd knowledge? I have heard a popular lecture, delivered by one for whom nature had done more than education, a lecture well enough expressed, and correct enough in sentiment, and undoubtedly written in the fancy that the author had struck upon a new vein of reasoning; and yet the lecturer, who in his dread of the trammels of the past, and in his scarcely disguised contempt for the literature of the past, had evidently seen and read but little of the thought of the past, scarcely put forth a single idea in that whole production, which is not already completely, beautifully, and immortally embodied in the ethical poems of the Roman Tory Burch Shoes orace.Yes, let us shut up our Miltons, our Spencers, our Dantes, Virgils, and Homers, and induce our neighbors also to leave them shut, and then we shall easily persuade both them and ourselves that we are the originators of all thought. But, as I said before, we have too much, far too much, to achieve in the future, to lose the vantage-ground secured by the past. The true practicalist will give no heed to the empty empiricism which calls upon us to ignore the past. Rather let us keep it alive in our
something by making that truth, or idea, which ho supposes to be his own, and original with him, the suggestive text of something truly original; the starting point for a more advanced exploration of thought MBT Shoes Clearance nd knowledge? I have heard a popular lecture, delivered by one for whom nature had done more than education, a lecture well enough expressed, and correct enough in sentiment, and undoubtedly written in the fancy that the author had struck upon a new vein of reasoning; and yet the lecturer, who in his dread of the trammels of the past, and in his scarcely disguised contempt for the literature of the past, had evidently seen and read but little of the thought of the past, scarcely put forth a single idea in that whole production, which is not already completely, beautifully, and immortally embodied in the ethical poems of the Roman Tory Burch Shoes orace.Yes, let us shut up our Miltons, our Spencers, our Dantes, Virgils, and Homers, and induce our neighbors also to leave them shut, and then we shall easily persuade both them and ourselves that we are the originators of all thought. But, as I said before, we have too much, far too much, to achieve in the future, to lose the vantage-ground secured by the past. The true practicalist will give no heed to the empty empiricism which calls upon us to ignore the past. Rather let us keep it alive in our
