Pilocereus senilis and other papers / by Walter Moxon.

  • Moxon, W.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Pilocereus senilis and other papers / by Walter Moxon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    contest of the individuality against tlie teach- ings of common sense. The schoolmaster tries to teach the boy the things known amongst men : rational truth ; interreality which founds the social world. The boy's individual sense seeks constantly to-escape ; struggles so that youngsters with strong in- dividuality fairly groan over their lessons. As the youth comes through his train- ing, all that is fresh and young and indi- vidual still struggles against the common and accepted, otherwise his consciousness tells him machinery will master motive- power. Here comes the difference between Queen's Counsel and potman; for if the tutor has well and continuously done his work, and if the lad has proved capable of yielding the individual sense before the common sense in due degree, then true adultness is at length reached, and slowly comes that great change of personal life when the history of boyhood, which was a story of its own little recollections of itself, becomes, you know not how, converted, so that the past is no longer his past, but the past of his race and nation, and he looks back to the dawn of human history and does not even mark the time when his per- sonal life struck in, and he is strengthened by the highest and best that is common amongst men. But perhaps to the potman this change never comes. Doubtless many never become adult in this noble sense, and for om' question of the influence of alcohol
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