Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Kenelm Chillingly is distinguished from other men by his love of independence, not an independence of order and proper restraint, but an independence of cant and conventionality; by his love for learning and contempt for pedantry; by his charity for all men, and by his desire for a thorough cultivation of both mind and body. And these are the leading characteristics of culture. He is none the less a type of culture because he sneers at the word. Culture, regarded as a means, becomes the developer of all that is good in a man. Culture, considered as an end, runs...
...that comparatively few books are taken by each student in the course of a year. It is not the number of books that can be read which makes a sure addition to knowledge, but the careful study of those we master, and this involves much labor and time. A thorough acquaintance with a few good books is of more advantage to the student than the smattering gained by the hasty perusal of a great number, one following another in such rapid succession that the mind is unable to digest any of them, but just as Cambridge water poured through...
...cramp the mind and fit it for only one channel; though it were better to be a man of one book and know that well, than to wander through the various authors, gleaning here a little and there a little, but neglecting the great value of a thorough study of their works. A judicious selection of some of the really valuable works of standard authors will afford variety enough for all practical purposes; for it would be better to be strong on a few well-chosen works than superficial on a great many and ill-arranged ones. From...
...would be strange enough, were there no other considerations, to suppose that, in so short a time, and only at this late day, men have become possessed with the desire for thorough intellectual training. For a man to be learned and accomplished is nothing new in theory or in practice; but the separation of learning and intellectual training from religion, - using the word in its broadest sense, - or rather the elevation of the one above the other, is something as new as it is startling...
...Capital and Labor, about which ignorant men talk at random, and politicians make buncombe speeches; but nobody knows facts enough to give a valuable opinion. It is the facts which General Oliver's bureau is trying to obtain, and if we may trust what he has already collected, a thorough reformation is needed in the condition of the laboring classes. The oppression of the poorer class by Capital is none the less real because of such a nature that it is more felt than seen. To those who wish to investigate these subjects we commend the above-mentioned report...