...all systematic methods, although they have been the result of thought, and experience, and genius, together with long years of patient labor and investigation...other hand, organization and system form the very hase on which genins must be built. The inventor is led to new ideas by thoroughly understanding what...

...disregard for the thought, the experience, and the deductions of others. If a teacher, though a genius, would attempt to "prove all things and hold fast to...good," he would keep on all through life proving things arid would have no time to " hold fast." That kind of native genius which will enable its possessor...

...that we are not in the habit of pledging allegiance or pinning faith to anything. The better way is to prove all things and hold fast to that which is good. And it is quite immaterial to the public what the editor thinks of us. What we want is that he shall...

...the modern scientific spirit. He would take nothing on trust. He believed with Paul that we should "prove all things, and hold fast to that which is good." He wasted no time in subtle speculations about the character and purposes of God or about the origin and...

...candid comparison and criticism of our respective opinions and arguments? Is there any better way than to prove all things and hold fast to that which Is good? Of one fact I am fully convinced, and that Is that these eleven years have manifestly been years of...

...their Alma Mater, believed in, and lived up to this doctrine. But he was no blind zealot, indisposed to "prove all things, and hold fast to that which is good." He was a liberal minded man, and I am sure that, in the practice of his profession, he would have considered...

...sense as well as poetry, overflowing with theories and delighting in experiments, strongly inclined to " prove all things and hold fast to that which is good," although on going into- her well-appointed and beautifully kept house one would think no improvement...

...careful sifting, as to whether it was fact or fiction. The author, therefore, while endeavouring honestly to " prove all things and hold fast to that which is good," trusts that the public will look with an indulgent eye on the many shortcomings and inaccuracies which...

...merely because it is new, but that it is the part of wisdom, in educational as in other affairs, " to prove all things, and hold fast to that which is good," without regard to age or parentage. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION vii I. WHAT EDUCATION Is 11...

...the method he refuses consideration. Playfair, an authority of equal weight, has been broad enough to prove all things and hold fast to that which is good. He says : " In the treatment of certain morbid conditions of the endometrium, especially chronic endometritis,...