Talks to Freshman Girls

No man could have written this sentence with more authority than Francis Bacon, for no man ever loved Studies better. In his youth he had declared passionately that he took all knowledge for his province, and it was his lifelong teaching that the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. I imagine Bacon writing these words with fervor, out of his own happy experience. At 2 the age of thirty-five, he could determine what Studies had been worth to him. They had been his delight, his ornament, and the means to his usefulness. For delight he wrote in his first edition pastimes, as he wrote ornaments and abilities, then wisely changed his sentence. His beautiful old word delight means, I take it, a heightened pleasure, a pleasure touched with imagination, full of suggestion and invitation. I have a far glimpse of its meaning when I hear a young person say that she is going to college to have a good time; a good time for the rest of her life is what, I believe, Studies will secure to her. You are so young, I may speak to you of age. There is a 3 new old age for women, with enlightened care of health and increasing intellectual interests. As for you freshmen, I have a vision of your erect forms and of your bright faces at seventy-five,of your health and your gayety and your wisdom, you charming old ladies of 1970! Age cannot wither you, nor custom stale your infinite variety, you women whom Studies have served for delight. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 37299
Author: Brown, Helen Dawes
Release Date: Sep 3, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English