Excerpt from The Unitarian, 1895, Vol. 10If there is anything which hitherto has been regarded as indisputably the supreme factor in human progress, the distinguish ing characteristic of man over the lower animals, and the department of our being on whose evolution nature is now coneen trating all its energies, it is his intellectual endowment. Literature is forever singing the praises of man's lordly mind and godlike reason. The whole immense dis tance between civilization and savagery is supposed to be due to the difference there is between their natural mental gifts. And, while the Church is regarded as a valuable help in keeping a person, after he has been trained up, from going to the had, our courses of study in school and college, and our taxes and enthusiasm for popular edu cation, are based almost entirely on the idea that the foremost requisite for making a boy a good citizen and a valuable member of society is to make him a good scholar.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.