OBSERVATIONS ON THE GROWTH OF THE MIND

by

SAMPSON REED

boston and new york  houghton, mifflin and company

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1886

Copyright, 1885, by james reed

All rights reserved.

— So build we up the Being that we are; Thus deeply drinking-in the Soul of Things We shall be wise perforce; and while inspired By choice, and conscious that the will is free, Unswerving shall we move, as if impelled By strict necessity, along the path Of order and of good. Whaler we see, Whate'er we feel, by agency direct Or indirect shall tend to feed and nurse Our faculties, shall fix in calmer seats Of moral strength, and raise to loftier heights Of love divine, our intellectual soul."

Wordsworth.

Contents:

• Biographical Preface
• The Changed Condition of the World
• These Changes originate in the Mind
• Essential Character of the Mind
• Power of acquiring and retaining Truth, and the Connection between the Memory and the Affections
• All Truth is practical
• Growth of the Mind
• The actual Development required by the Mind
• Effect of the Sciences
• Poetry and Music
• The actual Condition of Society
• The Word of God
• The Spirit of God
• Character of the Bible
• Insufficiency of Reason
• Miracles
• Individual Peculiarities

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