Philosophical principles of education and their scientific application to the development and perfection of medical science : delivered before the Louisiana State Medical Society at its 10th annual session, Monroe, Louisiana, April 25th, 1888 / by Joseph Jones.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
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[1888?]
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Credit: Philosophical principles of education and their scientific application to the development and perfection of medical science : delivered before the Louisiana State Medical Society at its 10th annual session, Monroe, Louisiana, April 25th, 1888 / by Joseph Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .'59 an outline of squared and polished blocks of the finest mar- ble ; but which, at a period when time had begun to impair •without destroying their beauty, an earthquake and tempest suddenly coming on shook them from their foundations and hivered them into fragments. With whatever material came into our way, we moderns, when the storm had subsided, built ourselves habitations, convenient enough in point of ac- commodation, and destined to lodge many a gifted ten- ant, but, nevertheless, devoid of the grace, and decoration and exquisite symmetry of the original structure. And if a few specimens of this architecture have es- caped the wreck of ages, and survive in all their primitive chasteness and elegant simplicity, shall we not teach out- youths to visit them, to admire their fair proportions, to study their cunning workmanship and to imitate whatever is imitable of their perfection? Languages can only be learned thoroughly and scien- tifically by comparing them with each other; hence, learn- ing Latin and Greek, the student learns English also in a far more thorough manner, and at the same time acquires in many respects a more perfect and powerful instrument of thought and expression. The critical study of languages not only develops and strengthens the memory and reasoning faculties, but it also, in a manner that can be accomplished by no other study, and, in fact, not by all studies combined, refines the taste, enriches and purifies the imagination, and stores the mind with useful information in history and philosophy. The sublimest poetry, the deepest, most powerful and most learned works in politics, morals, law, medicine, philoso- phy and theology were written in dead languages, and in most cases remain still in the dead languages—the works of Aristotle and Plato will remain to the end of time, the text-books of the statesman, metaphysician and philoso- pher, the works of the greatest physician that ever lived were written and have been preserved in Greek; all the medieval records of medicine, and all the terms of the