Excerpt from Short Studies in Character
These essays were all, in their original form, delivered as lectures to various ethical and educational societies. I do not offer them to the readers of the Ethical Library as a continuous, though ever so slight, study of the subject of character. To this subject, nevertheless, it appears to me that they do belong, all ethics and all educational science point back to character, its fundamental structure, its variety of type, and its ways of development. With this side of ethics and education these essays - each in its isolation and in its own way - deal. Therefore I have called them "Short Studies in Character "; but I beg the reader to accept them only as studies very short, very slight, and very inadequate in their range to the whole extent of their subject.
Speaking generally, Part I. may be said to deal with considerations of character as such, and Part II. with educational problems arising therefrom. But the two subjects melt into each other, and the distinction made may very well sometimes be felt to be illusory. The last essay is not closely connected with the rest,
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