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...Mallock showed that the rapid improvements in production which have taken place of late, have been due to the concentration of intellect, which has given rise to inventions of machinery. In the manufacture of machinery the same principle as that which governs any social system holds-it is not the individual skill of a workman which counts, for a good workman may be employed on a poor machine, but it is this skill, under the direction of a master mind. This shows that the essential feature of the production of wealth is not labor, as the socialists claim, but rather...
...more interests a man has, the more satisfaction he gets out of life. A keen, active intellect is obviously the most desirable thing a man can get from his years at College...
...mature man, who is actuated solely by a desire of self-improvement. To conclude, the free elective system assumes the evident fallacy that the student's aim is earnest and his judgment nature, and it fails to emphasize the development of character and the broadening of intellect...
...that keeps his heart and mind open to receive them. It is pitiful to see a man who deliberately scorns the beauties of art or nature. Infinitely more pitiful is it to see one who scorns religion, who refuses to believe anything religious that cannot be proved to his intellect as a problem in mathematics is proved. History and religion can show this man nothing more wonderful than what he can find in his own intellect. We cannot trust our intellect or our sentiment alone to give us the whole broad meaning of religion, but we must open our whole...
...fields of study, together with a better knowledge of one's own powers and adaptations--these attainments, said Bishop Vincent, and most of all, intellectual discipline with the aim of symmetrical development, should be the ideals of youth. For mere mental vigor, without a well-balanced conscience, intellect, and will, is of little value...