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Bonney Jeanette <[email protected]> Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:06:11 +0100
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Ho contents himself with reading books on botany, zoology, and the like;
and the reason of this is simple and easy to understand. It is that all
language is merely symbolical of the things of which it treats; the more
complicated the things, the more bare is the symbol, and the more its
verbal definition requires to be supplemented by the information derived
directly from the handling, and the seeing, and the touching of the
thing symbolised:--that is really what is at the bottom of the whole
matter. It is plain common sense, as all truth, in the long run, is only
common sense clarified. If you want a man to be a tea merchant, you
don't tell him to read books about China or about tea, but you put him
into a tea-merchant's office where he has the handling, the smelling,
and the tasting of tea. Without the sort of knowledge which can be
gained only in this practical way, his exploits as a tea merchant will
soon come to a bankrupt termination. The "paper-philosophers" are under
the delusion that physical science can be mastered as literary
accomplishments are acquired, but unfortunately it is not so. You may
read any quantity of books, and you may be almost as ignorant as you
were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of your minds, the
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