The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862: Devoted To Literature and National PolicyVarious
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862: Devoted To Literature and National Policy
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Periodicals
one hand, as they are from the scintillations of wit or the severe march
of reason on the other, for ready affiliation with either. We question
decidedly whether Theology proper can, at the most, be more than a very
restricted subject; and quite as decidedly whether the heterogeneous
matters grouped under History, namely, Agriculture, Trade, Manufactures,
the Fine Arts, Language, Education, Politics, and Political Economy, are
or can be shown to be linked by any principle of essential unity. Most
of these have their historical side; but their unhistorical and
scientific side most interests the great body of learners. And this
latter aspect of some of them, Education and Politics especially,
belongs after, not before Psychology. Then, the great fact of
expression--Language--has not adequate justice done it by the position
it is here placed in. Want of space is the least among our reasons for
forbearing to attempt here a classification of the sciences--a work
which Ramus, D'Alembert, Stewart, Bentham, and Ampère successively
essayed and left unfinished. But the principle that the faculties in
their order are called out by the branches named in their order, is
quite given up as the writer proceeds, and distinctly so in his Tabular
View of the studies adapted to successive ages. In actual life, usually
the first set teaching the infant receives is in language; and even
though it previously is and should be getting its ideas of forms,
colors, and other qualities, in the concrete, yet it remains far from
true that we should 'pay our earliest attention to the development of
the child's power to grasp the truths of space and time.' Dr. Hill has,
however, taken in these papers a step in a needful direction; and
perhaps the best we could at first expect, are hints and an
approximation toward a much desired result.
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