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The first may be compared to capacious barns where knowledge is stored like hay to become musty because it is never used. In our popular public school and collegiate system, there is too much stuffing of knowledge, and too little attention given to developing the practical sense of the student. There are special senses which give physical and moral energy, ambition and industry.
“What crime have I committed now, Melicent, against your code?” he asked, not fully aroused from his reverie. “You’ve committed nothing; your sin is one of omission. I absolutely believe you go through the world with your eyes, to all practical purposes, closed. Don’t you notice anything; any change?”
The existence of absolute certainty is denied, and the demand for it, in a world which contains only the practical sort, merely plays into the hands of scepticism. The uncertainty of all our verificatory processes, however, is not the creation of the pragmatist, nor is he a god to abolish it.
They are generally left to themselves, whether they will serve God, or worship Devils whether they become christians, or remain heathens as long as they live: as if either their souls were not worth the saving, or as if we were under no obligation of giving them any instruction: which is the true reason why so many of them who are grown up, and lived many years among us, are as entirely ignorant of the principles of religion, as if they had never come into a christian country: at least, as to any good or practical purposes.
The practical argument against Rome is stated by him in a shape which comes home to the consciences of all, whatever their theological training and leanings, who have been brought up in English ways and ideas of religion. But why should he not? He is desirous of union the reunion of the whole of Christendom.
It was only next morning, when the world showed its practical side, that she realized how seldom in real life romances can be worked out to a happy ending or, at all events, the kind of happy ending the people concerned are striving after. "I'll do my best, though," she reiterated, "for Petro's sake and for mine."
I was, of course, equally delighted to afford so young a man so much instruction, and thought what a thing it is to be young. However, here was an opportunity not to be lost of showing him how to put to the practical test of experience two at least, if not all three, of the little aphorisms, and I said so.
You keep him in check, Clennam, with your common sense, and you stick to the Works, Dan, with your 'Uncommon sense? suggested Daniel, with his quiet smile. 'You may call it so, if you like and each of you will be a right hand to the other. Here's my own right hand upon it, as a practical man, to both of you. The purchase was completed within a month.
When you are on a runaway horse, I prefer to say a racehorse, Richie, you must ride him. You dare not throw up the reins. Only last night Wedderburn, appealing to Loftus, a practical sailor, was approved when he offered I forget the subject-matter the illustration of a ship on a lee-shore; you are lost if you do not spread every inch of canvas to the gale.
He recognizes elements of virtue and courage and honor that are waiting to be called out, sets himself to elicit them and bases his conclusions on those very real facts. He is just as practical as the other, but with this difference he expects more and gets it.
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