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Excerpt from The Preparation of the Child for Science
Thomas wedgwood. He was assisted in his scientific researches by Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin), a then famous physician. His life-long dream was to promote happiness on earth, not by the multiplication ofmechanical iappllancesifor comfort and pleasure, but by the evolution of a Race gifted with powers of intellectual enjoyment, larger than those of man as he now exists. He made a Special study of the faculty which he called Genius and the conditions of its orderly devel opment. By Genius he evidently meant, chie?y, the power of seeing truth at first hand. The ms. Of his work was entrusted to a friend who is said to have lost it. The rough notes for the book in Wedgwood''s handwriting, with a fair copy of one or two of the chapters, were found in 1883. Among the papers was a scrap on which was written, in a Shaking hand, the sentence How exhilarating is the thought that if, by the labour of my whole life, I can add one idea to the stock of those concerning education, my life has been well spent.''
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Thomas wedgwood. He was assisted in his scientific researches by Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin), a then famous physician. His life-long dream was to promote happiness on earth, not by the multiplication ofmechanical iappllancesifor comfort and pleasure, but by the evolution of a Race gifted with powers of intellectual enjoyment, larger than those of man as he now exists. He made a Special study of the faculty which he called Genius and the conditions of its orderly devel opment. By Genius he evidently meant, chie?y, the power of seeing truth at first hand. The ms. Of his work was entrusted to a friend who is said to have lost it. The rough notes for the book in Wedgwood''s handwriting, with a fair copy of one or two of the chapters, were found in 1883. Among the papers was a scrap on which was written, in a Shaking hand, the sentence How exhilarating is the thought that if, by the labour of my whole life, I can add one idea to the stock of those concerning education, my life has been well spent.''
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Mary Everest Boole
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ISBN - 9781334998577
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 160
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Mary Everest Boole
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Page Count - 162
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