...and spiritual truth, and it was made for so doing. " The end of all knowledge," Milton wrote, " is to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him." Yet this knowing faculty, this intuitive apprehension, this natural eye, is clouded and darkened by...

...Translate into Greek Prose — But if you can accept of these few observations which have flowered off, and are as it were the burnishing of many contemplative...aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to the...

...moral and spiritual truth, and it was made for so doing. " The end of all knowledge," Milton wrote, "is to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him." Yet this knowing faculty, this intuitive apprehension, this natural eye, is clouded and darkened by...

...language:—"The end of learning," says Milton, "is to repair the ruins of ourfirst parents by 1 cgaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him and to imitate Him, to be like Him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue,...

..."delight" in study, Milton's great aim is_tp produce men capable of serving God and the commonwealth ; " to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright " ; and to fit men for the discharge of "all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war." If, then,...

...amongst the most interesting pages of his book. For instance : — 1 This reminds us of Milton's words: "The end, then, of learning, is to repair the ruins...our first parents by regaining to know God aright." * Lord Bacon. WOODWARD'S STAMMERING. " I had naturally linguam impcditam, a stammering tongue. My mother,...

...mythologies would be manifestly out of place here. As Milton says in his oft-quoted " Tractate," " The end of Learning is to repair the ruins of our first Parents by regaining to know God aright." This would not leave much room for Parnassus or Helicon. We know as a fact that in later life, when...

...mythologies would be manifestly out of place here. As Milton says in his oft-quoted " Tractate," " The end of Learning is to repair the ruins of our first Parents by regaining to know God aright." This would not leave much room for Parnassus or Helicon. We know as a fact that in later life, when...

...is undertaken. Milton borrows his ideal from Christian theology, claiming that the end of education is " to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love, imitate, and be like him." Vastly more comprehensive than any of the preceding ideals is Spencer's...

...natur.d, practical, and ennobling. "The end of learning." he wrote in one of his prese treatises, "is to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him." Ought not all people of liberal faith, and especially we' Unitarians, unite in praising a man who stood...