Show mr carlyle in reply to a request for advice as to a course of reading eaid said it is not by books alone nor by books chiefly that a man be comee in ill ill fill parta parts a man study to do faithfully whatsoever thing in your actual situation there and now you find expressly or tacitly laid to your charge that is your post stand to it like a true soldier A man perfects himself by work much more than by reading they are a growing kind of men that can wisely combine the two things wisely valiantly can dochat do what ia is laid to their h hand and in their present r edw t here and prepare them themselves solve W withal ti it for doing other wider things if such lie before them |