Excerpt from The Works of Stephen Olin, D.D., LL. D, Vol. 2: Late President of the Wesleyan University This knowledge of first principles is even more important to the student who aspires to an education truly liberal than to the teacher himself, who often acquires the elements of science and language very perfectly by virtue of endless rep etitions, while wholly unconscious of their subtile powers and manifold relations and affinities. By force of inveterate habit, he can walk in the dark, and without tripping, the wonted round of his narrow curriculum. He may be likened to the porter'of a princely mansion, who never advances be yond the vestibule of the palace, though forever employed in opening the door which admits hundreds into beautiful sa loons blazing with light and magnificence. 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.