CHAPTER X 



SELECTED SAYINGS 



IN selecting excerpts from some of the most important de- 

 liverances and publications of Dr. Knapp, preference 

 has been given to those which bear more directly upon the 

 demonstration work. These have been classified and presented 

 in chronological order, as far as feasible. 



Many readers will doubtless wish for fuller copies. It is 

 gratifying to read them just as Dr. Knapp presented them, but 

 in a volume of this kind it is impossible to incorporate so 

 much. 



It will be found that these quotations have a certain 

 logical sequence, and in their cumulative effect, they drive 

 home the fundamental points of his philosophy. Thinkers 

 and workers will find an ever recurring source of help and 

 joy in the re-reading of them. 

 FROM AN ADDRESS ON "THE NEW EDUCATION." 1883 



"The charge against classical education is that it does not fit a 

 man for any place in active life. While it trains the memory, the 

 reflection, and the reasoning, it puts out the eyes and stops up the 

 ears." 



"Nothing upon the crust of the earth, or in the depth of the 

 sea, or in boundless space is exempt from the scrutiny of the scien- 

 tist. He has cutivated the organs of sense to the uttermost and 

 then added to them. To the eye he has added lenses and tubes till 

 he can look at his atom or survey a star. He has multiplied the 

 sound receiving capacity of his ear and has drawn his tongue into a 

 copper wire until he can converse indefinite miles. He has lengthened 

 his fingers to pick up shells on the bottom of the ocean. We owe to 



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