The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-16

siderinR that the grave lies 90 close to the
cradle, would say read that way.
Thus colOesi may lay about them, a
giant may do the work Of q giant, but pig
mics would only be ridiculous in attempt
ing the labors Of Hercules
Frederick Douglass, born a slave, TWEEN
ty.tive years old before he knew a single
letter Of the alphabet, learning to read on
the rocks Of the CheEapea he turtiyely, and
at the mutual risk OF his life and that OF
the illiterate Irish lsbnrer who tuTtiyely
whispered letter TO him now and then,
has read thousands OF books, retains their
substance in memory, and is stll'hVing'
How to read that is the question Slow
| Nv | should say to medioGrity, very slowly,
few books; much less than hundred un'
less you live hundred years, one 9 year
Is enough for you. Read q page, 10y the
book down, walk your room, or II II IL
summer, promenade under the trees, and
repeat aloud to yourseli all you can re.
member, then take up the book and read
another page, and follow II up 60. Thus
all men read mathematics, and many
times over. A party reading OF a work on
the ConiG sections or the Calculus even,
take it, would leave about the same i'm
presslon on tho mind that one glance at
the table OF logarithms Would-none RtRli /!
Books Of exact science must so BIZ read.
No man can read them last, No man
ever did who attained eminenGe as q
scientist. All the writers about the hun
dred books overlook this. Mere literary
books, histories, essays and poems may be
read like creased lightning by q keen and
scholarly mind, the faster the better One
man can read dozen or two OF that sort
of thing in day. Another, to be sure, a
| little heavier, may require dozen days
for one book. Each must judge bis own
strength. It Is as easy for ono horse to
trot q mile in three minutes rs 1t is Tor an
other 10 limp it in three hours. But no
man can UNDERSTANDING read the exten.
siye course laid out by Sir John or any OF
the other eminent men who have written
on this subject, until iirst he has read or
rather studied through and through, yea,
mastered the fundamental books Of iln-
ished classical education
o, he can 90 through them, as could
walk or crawl through the lHbyrinths OF
tba Pyramids-and see nothing.
In all this much is implied, but first OF
/ all tDb euuCaUun VI hHhhlHI h1AAlS
Collins or Lubbock! A hundred tlm,s
over and over, carefully, slowly must the
young student have read a dozen books
that shall now name before HI can read
with profit the formidable lists published
lately "iOr workingmen" Working
men," who have tho previ us education,
can reId them as well As Glasgow pro.
fpsaor, hat the point | make is this, with
out that preliminary education they can.
not read them ~ all. A strange oversight |!
But before the wOrkingmau or any Other
man or woman can read undeTstandngly
these tremendous lists OF books, he or she
must have mastered, at the very least,
the Latin grammar, the Latin reader, the
Greek grammar, tho Greek reader, arlth'
metiC, algebra, geometry, mechanics, sur
ytying, botany, zoology, astronomy, tue
Classical Dictionary, Wtbster's Dictionary,
geography Igeneral), and Universal HIS
tory.
Tho first twelve he must know all about
before he TACKLES this mighty liat, and tbs
last four no must keep az his elbow or he
will llvuuder and bU lost,
PRlvATE DAL2RLL.