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On Instinct: A Lecture Delivered Before the Dublin Natural History Society, 11th November, 1842
Excerpt from On Instinct: A Lecture Delivered Before the Dublin Natural History Society, 11th November, 1842
The charge does fairly lie against Natural History thus, and only thus studied. And the same might be said with regard even to the cultivation of litera ture. If a man went no farther in literary pur suits than to be a good judge of different editions of books, or the difi'erent modes of binding or printing those books, he might make a very useful librarian; but it could not be said that he had turned literary knowledge. To any of the more dignified purposes for which it might be employed. There, no doubt, are such persons; but it would not therefore be true to re gard Literature altogether as merely a Bibliomanian a mere curiosity about rare books, because some have no other than such literature. And equally unfair would it be to pronounce a similar contemptuous cen sure on Naturalists, because there are some among them who correspond to those librarian-students just alluded to - men who are content to arrange and label, as it were, the volumes of the great Book of Nature, and then forget to peruse them, or peruse them without intelligence, and without profit.
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The charge does fairly lie against Natural History thus, and only thus studied. And the same might be said with regard even to the cultivation of litera ture. If a man went no farther in literary pur suits than to be a good judge of different editions of books, or the difi'erent modes of binding or printing those books, he might make a very useful librarian; but it could not be said that he had turned literary knowledge. To any of the more dignified purposes for which it might be employed. There, no doubt, are such persons; but it would not therefore be true to re gard Literature altogether as merely a Bibliomanian a mere curiosity about rare books, because some have no other than such literature. And equally unfair would it be to pronounce a similar contemptuous cen sure on Naturalists, because there are some among them who correspond to those librarian-students just alluded to - men who are content to arrange and label, as it were, the volumes of the great Book of Nature, and then forget to peruse them, or peruse them without intelligence, and without profit.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
36 pages, Hardcover
Published February 9, 2019
About the author
Richard Whately
642 books7 followersEnglish rhetorician, logician, economist, academic and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics. Whately was an important figure in the revival of Aristotelian logic in the early nineteenth century. Whately's view of rhetoric as essentially a method for persuasion became an orthodoxy, challenged in mid-century by Henry Noble Day.
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