 | Education - 1911 - 568 pages
...consider, in the words of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, one of the greatest pedagogs of the English governing classes of the nineteenth century, " the desire of...taking an active share in the great work of government, as the highest earthly desire of the ripened mind." In this country it can hardly be said that there... | |
 | Sir George Newman - Citizenship - 1928 - 272 pages
...commonwealth is to him the main subject of history, the laws of political science the main lesson of history, "the desire of taking an active share in the great work of government, the highest earthly desire of the ripened mind."8 The application of geography is also wide. Geology,... | |
 | American essays - 1908 - 976 pages
...politician. Few English people to-day recall, if they ever knew, Dr. Arnold's dictum that the desire to take an active share in the great work of government is the highest earthly desire of a ripened mind. But there are people beyond count in England, in all walks of life, with whom interest... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1911 - 568 pages
...consider, in the words of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, one of the greatest pedagogs of the English governing classes of the nineteenth century, " the desire of...taking an active share in the great work of government, as the highest earthly desire of the ripened mind." In this country it can hardly be said that there... | |
 | American essays - 1908 - 1022 pages
...politician. Few English people to-day recall, if they ever knew, Dr. Arnold's dictum that the desire to take an active share in the great work of government is the highest earthly desire of a ripened mind. But there are people beyond count in England, in all walks of life, with whom interest... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 620 pages
...Aristotle, and all history," were his favorite studies, and the Greek iroXirix») his favorite science. " The desire of taking an active share in the great work of government" was to him " the highest earthly desire of the ripened mind." Thucydides was the historian whose mode... | |
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... the desire of taking an active share in the great work of government. The... 
