Robert Louis Stevenson
Lay Morals, and Other Papers
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664623133
Table of Contents
FATHER DAMIEN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DR. HYDE OF HONOLULU
THE PENTLAND RISING a page of history 1666
CHAPTER I—THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLT
CHAPTER III—THE MARCH OF THE REBELS
CHAPTER I—EDINBURGH STUDENTS IN 1824
CHAPTER II—THE MODERN STUDENT CONSIDERED GENERALLY
CHAPTER III—DEBATING SOCIETIES
CHAPTER IV—THE PHILOSOPHY OF UMBRELLAS [151]
CHAPTER V—THE PHILOSOPHY OF NOMENCLATURE
CHAPTER I—LORD LYTTON’S ‘FABLES IN SONG’
CHAPTER III—BAGSTER’S ‘PILGRIM’S PROGRESS’
III. THE WREATH OF IMMORTELLES
CHAPTER I—NANCE AT THE ‘GREEN DRAGON’
CHAPTER II—IN WHICH MR. ARCHER IS INSTALLED
CHAPTER VII—THE BLEACHING-GREEN
PROLOGUE—THE WINE-SELLER’S WIFE
CHAPTER I—TRAQUAIRS OF MONTROYMONT
CHAPTER III—THE HILL-END OF DRUMLOWE
CHAPTER I
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education is to throw out some magnanimous hints. No man was ever so poor that he could express all he has in him by words, looks, or actions; his true knowledge is eternally incommunicable, for it is a knowledge of himself; and his best wisdom comes to him by no process of the mind, but