Vinetum (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX THE SCHOLAR, S LIFE AND CHARACTER CHAPTER I THE AIM OF STUDIES How many considerations restrain a really learned man from being ashamed of learning from others. The four elements of which all learning consists, natural capacity, judgment, memory, application, but no development of these qualities is of such moment as to justify the learned man in boasting of them. Each man must study so as to be of benefit to others through his study. Especially must the student flee from that noxious evil, flattery, as well as human glory, as assuredly worthless and empty. Now that we have finished the consideration of the humanistic arts, let us state what the man thus cultured should do, how he should spend the rest of his life, whether separately by himself or with others, in the employment and practice of the knowledge he has acquired, and in its dissemination; how he should bear himself towards his colleagues who are similarly equipped with knowledge and training; how he should receive their opinions and judgments concerning himself; and how he should consign his contributions to literature, so as to transmit them to posterity. He will not necessarily follow the details one by one, in the order in which we have dealt with them. He will not think it wrong to glance back again at what has been discussed earlier, even when he has reached a later stage. He will mix his studies and consult again the first part when he The connexion has reacned the third, and the third when he is between studying, say, the sixth'. For all studies have a connexion with one another, and a certain affinity. One may be taken in hand because it is necessary for present usefulness; another because it is an alleviation from present labour. The student will be always...