The Silver Whistle, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Silver Whistle, Vol. 1: A Novel There is one view of the phonograph which I have not as yet seen in print, and that is that is it has been made as a quiet satire on the modern higher educated child. It is, as we know, a mere machine for storing up, bottling with care and reproducing words. The resemblance docs not altogether cease with modern childhood. A breath of the satire rustles the leaves of the creepers which cling round the walls of our universities. As, in the middle ages, men who stayed up at Oxford after they had attained the degree of bachelor of arts attended the ordinary lectures of a regent master and plodded steadily, stolidly on with that eternal old phonograph, Aristotle, so, now-a-days, they let loose their words and suffocate their ideas in a perpetual round of history and philosophy, psychology and metaphysics, and if their minds retain one original chord of music, then comes the great and final Thug - logic. The best tutor at Oxford generally asks his pupils who go up to him in a state of fuss about the honour school of Literoe Humaniores: "Do you want really to learn any philosophy, or do you want simply to know enough of it not to spoil your class in history?" In other words: "Do you wish to be a real phonograph or a sham one?" 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.