Parental Wisdon

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Excerpt from Parental Wisdon: Or the Philosophy and Social Bearings of Education If books and systems be multiplied a thousand fold (whatever be their merits) they are to be estimated solely by their social result the amount of social good they effect, the quantum of social evil they remove, and this test of utility, is the true measure and criterion of their worth. By earlier writers, the main stress was laid on modes and systems of discipline, while those of later date, have taken up the question chiefly with reference to its efficacy, as a measure of national policy, and in either view, so much to the purpose has been advanced, that little can remain to be added that is at once novel and useful. The professed object of all has been, to make men wiser and better, and consequently happier, by refining and elevating the human character, and opening all the purer springs of rational enjoyment, - but, who will contend that this has been done, when those who have the best means of knowing, unhesitatingly assert the contrary The most intelligent portion of the public press - men, beneath whose eye the panoramic scene of life, with all that passes on the great social arena, are hourly passing - broadly affirm, that nothing has been done, comparatively little perhaps, (in a moral view, ) but it is fair to admit, that the quantum of present evil might and doubtless would have been much greater, had its co-operation been wholly suspended. 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.