The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence .of our nature, and to render an intelligent being yet more intelligent. The Cornhill Magazine - Seite 38herausgegeben von - 1867Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1867 - 972 Seiten
...now say no more. MT CULTURE. — Montesquieu soys : — " The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of our nature, and to render on intelligent being yet more intelligent." This is the true ground to assign for the genuine scientific... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 350 Seiten
...to blame when we blame curiosity. Montesquieu says : — " The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence .of...fruit of this passion ; and it is a worthy ground, even though we let the term curiosity stand to describe it. But there is of culture another view, in... | |
| 1915 - 846 Seiten
...imperative. — Chrittian Science Monitor. The Motive for Study The fresh motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of...render an intelligent being yet more intelligent. — Matthew Arnold. FRATERNITY DIRECTORY Honorary Eminent Supreme Arehon JUDOE ARTHUR J. TUTTLE, Michigan... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 420 Seiten
...mean to blame when we blame curiosity. Montesquieu says : " The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of...fruit of this passion ; and it is a worthy ground, even though we let the term curiosity stand to describe it. But there is of culture another view, in... | |
| Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 348 Seiten
...mean to blame when we blame curiosity. Montesquieu says : " The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of...fruit of this passion ; and it is a worthy ground, even though we let the term curiosity stand to describe it. But there is of culture another view, in... | |
| Sir William Symington M'Cormick - 1889 - 196 Seiten
...not surrender our first position. Montesquieu has said: " The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of...render an intelligent being yet more intelligent." Now, what I wish especially to point out to-day is the possibility of this primary motive, true culture,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1891 - 438 Seiten
...mean to blame when we blame curiosity. Montesquieu says : " The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of...fruit of this passion ; and it is a worthy ground, even though we let the term curiosity stand to describe it. But there is of culture another view, in... | |
| 1891 - 492 Seiten
...Culture and Anarchy." He quotes Montesquieu, who says : " The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of...intelligent being yet more intelligent." " This," says Arnold, " is the true ground to assign for the genuine scientific passion, however manifested,... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1891 - 560 Seiten
...same subject Matthew Arnold quotes Montesquieu as follows: "The first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of...render an intelligent being yet more intelligent." Again he says that culture is "an inward and spiritual activity having for its characters increased... | |
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