ENGLISH EDUCATION BEING AN ATTEMPT TO PLACE THE TEACHING AND STUDY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ON A TRUER AND BROADER BASIS THAN IS AT PRESENT RECOGNISED. AN ESSAY BY ANGUS MACPHERSON,. FORMERLY HEAD-MASTER OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IN THE .66 GLASGOW COLLEGIATE ACADEMY," "A system in which religion and science, like twin beauteous sisters, moving LORD PANMURE. SECOND EDITION. GLASGOW: DAVID ROBERTSON. EDINBURGH: OLIVER & BOYD. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO. MDCCCLIV. ΤΟ MY BROTHER, THROUGH WHOSE COUNTENANCE AND SUPPORT I HAVE BEEN ENABLED REDUCE TO PRACTICE THE PRINCIPLES THEREIN EXHIBITED, THE FOLLOWING ESSAY IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. ESSAY. IF MAN consists of a material body, and an immaterial soul, the former connecting him with the creatures of the material world, the latter linking him to those of the spiritual, it follows, that while his material being is impelled by physical necessities, his soul as naturally soars heavenward, in obedience to laws as necessary. This theory of the natural necessity of spiritual aspiration is deeply qualified, we all know, by the free-will of man being perverted to unnatural issues. "What man has made of man," is recorded in the annals of the past. What man still makes of man, is stamped upon the consciousness of the present. This being admitted, we have here, then, we may almost say, a being of two natures, one the given condition and basis of the other, placed in a sphere consisting of material and spiritual reactive agents, for the developing of its inborn capacities into efficient powers. Doubtless this being has been created for some high and noble purpose, for it possesses energies adequate thereto, and has been placed in a situation eminently fitted to develope and strengthen these. Moreover it has been gifted beyond any other creature with reason and religion. |