...declares explicitly : "THE END OF LEARNING IS TO REPAIR THE RUINS OF OUR TIRST PARENTS, BY REQUIRING TO KNOW GOD ARIGHT, AND OUT OF THAT KNOWLEDGE TO LOVE HIM AND TO IMITATE HIM."* * One of our own most eminent citizens, the Hon. Samuel L. Southard, in an Address...

...perfection of humanity. " For the end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love...the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection."t Scarcely subsidiary to this divine purpose, but indeed correlative with it, is the relation...

...of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and of that knowledge to love him, to imitate, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing...heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so...

...of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and of that knowledge to love him, to imitate, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, t>eing united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. But because our understanding...

...learning," according to the immortal Milton, "is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love...to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing ourselves of true virtue, which, united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection."...

...learning," according to the immortal Milton, " is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love...to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing ourselves of true virtue, which, united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection."...

...first he says, — " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know GOD aright ; and out of that knowledge, to...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." And of the second, he says in words that have been often quoted, but that will well bear to be quoted again,...

...Milton, when he gaid— " The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to he like Him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being united to...

...Schools. " The end of learning," says Milton, " is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright ; and out of that knowledge to...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." The distinguishing characteristic of the Parochial School Education, according to its first design...

...learning to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to be like him, — as we may the nearest be by possessing our souls of true virtue, which, being...grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection." And how well he insists on this definite and living purpose of the scholar, when he speaks of " that methodical...