The Story of a Great SchoolmasterWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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The Story of a Great Schoolmaster
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Sanderson, F. W. (Frederick William), 1857-1922; School principals -- Great Britain -- Biography
'There is the great Newton at the head of this list comparing himself
to a child playing on the seashore gathering pebbles, whilst he could
see with prophetic vision the immense ocean of truth yet unexplored
before him. At the end is the discoverer Sir Ronald Ross, who had gone
out to India in the medical service of the Army, and employed his
leisure in investigating the ravishing diseases which had laid India
low and stemmed its development. In twenty years of labour he discovers
how malaria is transmitted and brings the disease within the hold of
man.'
The second is from a sermon called 'The Garden of Life.'
'As Canon Driver says, "Man is not made simply to enjoy life; his
end is not pleasure; nor are the things he has to do necessarily to
give pleasure or lead to what men call happiness." This is not the
biological purpose of man. His purpose or instinctive end is to develop
the capacities of the garden in the wilderness of nature; to adapt it
to his own ends, _i.e._ to the ends of the races of men. Or, as we
would now say, his aim is to take his part in the making of his kind;
and he is to "keep it," or guard it--_i.e._ he is to conquer the jungle
in it, to prevent it from roving wild again, from reverting to the
jungle, from losing law and order, from becoming unruly and disorderly,
from breaking loose and running amok. He is to bring and maintain order
out of the tangle of things, he is to diagnose diseases; he is to
co-ordinate the forces of nature; he is above all things to reveal the
spirit of God in all the works of God.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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