Author: William Osler

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-09

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9780260696687

Excerpt from Intensive Work in Science at the Public Schools in Relation to the Medical Curriculum Rev. W. A. Johnson, Founder and Word'm of Tim Colic e School Canada. Ty gscope the marvels in a drop of dirty pond water, and who on Saturday excursions up the river could talk of the Trilobites and the Ortho ceratites, and explain the formation of the earth's crust. No more dry husks for me after such a diet, and early in my college life I kicked over the traces and exchanged the ciassics with divers as represented by Pearson, Browne, and Hooker, for Hunter, Lyell, and Huxley. From the study of nature to the study of man was an easy step. My experience was that of thousands, yet, as I remember, we were athirst for good literature What a delight it would have been to have had Chapman's Odyssey read to us, or Plato's Phaedo, on a Sunday evening, or the Vera Historia. What atragedy to climb Parnassus in a fog! How I have cursed the memory of Protagoras since finding that he introduced grammar into the curriculum, and forged the fetters which chained generations of schoolboys in he cold formalism of words. How different now that Moawaigne and Milton and Locke and Petty have outhe to their own, and are recognised as meg of sense in the matter of the training of y m. 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.