...purpose of Education, than that of the Scotch Parochial Schools. " The end of learning," says Milton, " is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." The distinguishing characteristic of the Parochial School Education, according to its first design...

...we have just referred to, that "THE END OP LEARNING IS TO KEPAIR THE RUINS OP OUR FIRST PARENTS, BT REGAINING TO KNOW GOD ARIGHT, AND OUT OF THAT KNOWLEDGE...TO LOVE HIM, TO IMITATE HIM, TO BE LIKE HIM, AS WE MAT THE NEAREST BY POSSESSING OUR SOULS OF TRUE VIRTUE, WHICH, BEING DNITED TO THE HEAVENLY GRACE OF...

...learning to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to be like him, — as we may the nearest be by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." And how well he insists on this definite and living purpose of the scholar, when he speaks of " that...

...people. " The end of learning," says Milton, " is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by requiring to know God aright, and out of that knowledge, to love him, and to imitate him." But what a mass of false perceptions, false judgments and false i Hon. Mr. Wyse,...

...itself a very peculiar idea of that system of training which merits such an appellation, " The end of learning," he says, " is to repair the ruins of...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." Select Prose Worka, vol. I. p. 144. Plato, long before, had conceived a similar idea of what education...

...itself a very peculiar idea of that system of training which merits such an appellation, " The end of learning" he says, " is to repair the ruins of...true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace faith, makes up the highest perfection." Select Prose War vol. I. p. 144. Plato, long before, had conceived...

...first parents by I regaining to knowTTod aright, and out of thaFTchowIedge to love him, to imuat'e him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls " 61 true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection....

...had spent " many studious and contemplative years in the search of RELIGIOUS and CIVIL knowledge") "is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him." Would he who wrote thus — would this zealous defender of civil and religious liberty — have consented...

...special object, because it does not subject the will, as it "The end of learning," says our great poet, " is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." * " Virtue," says the prince of our philosophers, " direct virtue, is the hard and valuable part to...

...the divine ideal of humanity. And as the great and good Milton has said, " The end of all learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining...heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection :" so we may add, the man of letters and art might be expected to be the most pure-minded and faithful...