Excerpt from Liberal Education a Necessity of the Church There is an education which prepares men for a particular profession. The practical lawyer must be educated in the principles and rules of legal practice, the physician in those pertaining to the practice of medicine, the Christian pastor in what relates immediately to the service of the pulpit and the cure of souls. And so with those who devote themselves to a particular science or branch of lite rature. Se with the man of business. Such an education is like that of the apprentice, having for its object the ability to perform well the particular processes of his trade. If extended, in any case, beyond the boundaries of professional service, it is only as the seaman finds it well to acquaint himself with mathematics for its use in nautical calculations, or the mechanic and manufacturer with the laws of physical forces or the principles of chemical science. The object is not knowledge simply, bnt knowledge for a specific end, not the improvement of the mind as a whole, but its adaptation to the performance of a definite work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.