Excerpt from The New Philosophy, Vol. 1
In these times, when knowledge of all sorts is making such general progress, and science continually opening further discoveries in nature, and also the means of practically applying them, it doubly imports that the moral progress - the progress of the mind - should be equally attended to. I say, doubly; for first, the mind, as mind, is of most consequence, and that that therefore should be set in a state to take right views and form just conclusions, is the primary concern; for did not the mind first conceive, no action at all would follow, and where it conceives erroneously, ill effects result: secondly, therefore, when knowledge begins to enlighten mankind, and science, as now, to put power into their hands, by enabling them to lay hold, as it were, on the elements, - to use, and in some degree, command them, - it is of vital importance that the directing mind should be enlarged with that increase of power.
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