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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 77 ON ECONOMY. P. My first conversation with you assumed that you had some knowledge. It would otherwise have been vain to expect you to understand me. My last supposed that you had yet to learn some of the uses of the knowledge in your possession, and of the further knowledge which you are seeking. We have made one step in advance. If you have learned nothing from me, you have enabled me to learn that yon and I are of one mind, so far, that for men to live at all on this earth, they must work; to live decently and comfortably, they must work diligently, intelligently, and skilfully. Intelligent work is impossible without knowledge; knowledge is not to be had without the desire, accompanied by application, to get it. The desire and application are thoughts and habits to be formed and fostered in childhood, first by the affectionate care of others, and afterwards by that self-discipline of which we have discoursed together. The pursuit of knowledge thus commenced, ripens into one of the most intense of our pleasures, while it is providing immunity against future suffering. How different from those other pleasures which are purchased by the sacrifice of future respectability, comfort, and peace of mind Considering knowledge merely as an auxiliary for securing a supply of the necessaries and comforts of life, it would be a great mistake to conclude that it is nothing more than a means of material well-being; although people will sometimes talk of knowledge in this way. It is a means of moral and religious improvement: for if the knowledge in our possession be not preserved, our stores cannot bemaintained; and if it be not more generally diffused, they cannot be increased, urgent as the need for increase may be. In one case, misery and temptation would be greater. In the othe...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217528184 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021752818X |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $27.27 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 268 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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