Excerpt from Self-Culture, and Perfection of Character: Including the Management of Youth Improvement is the practical watch-word of the age Since the Revolution, men have probably made more numerous and valuable inventions and discoveries in machinery, agriculture, and the means of human com fort and luxury, than ever before since the Creation. Yet, While they are straining every nerve to its utmost tension to devise some shorter and still shorter road to augment wealth, and the facilities for promoting merely animal gratifications, and those mostly artificial, how few care or attempt to improve their intellectual or moral faculties. If they can but amass riches, live in splendid palaces and princely style, and procure the means of indulging the selfish propensities, they exult in having attained the highest good, though intellect lie waste, and moral pleasures are unknown. And even the few who attempt to improve their higher faculties know neither where to begin nor how to proceed. 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.