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A Guide to Systematic Readings in the Encyclopedia Britannica
A Guide to Systematic Readings in the Encyclopedia Britannica Author:James Baldwin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. HOME READINGS IN HISTORY. " The use of reading is to aid us in thinking."—Edward Gihhon. To KNOW one thing well is better than to have a smatte... more »ring of many things. It is an excellent plan to choose for yourself some particular subject which you like, and then to follow a systematic course of reading Courses of . Reading on at suject until you have acquired a comprehensive knowledge of it. Some of you will prefer history, some of you biography (which is really a branch of history), some of- you science, and some of you art. In beginning such a course read that which you can readily understand ; you taill gradually become able to understand and enjoy things which now seem very hard and totally unintelligible to you. It is not intended that a course of this kind should take the place of the miscellaneous reading which you will want to do — of the stories, the poems, the sketches, the many excellent and beautiful things in literature which every intelligent boy or girl takes delight in reading. The aim and object of this course is to add to your knowledge, to aid you in thinking, to help you to become an intelligent man or woman. Having once decided to begin it, resolve that nothing shall induce you to neglect it. Devote a little time to it regularly. If you give ten minutes every day to systematic reading—and you need not give more—you will be astonished at the end of a year to note how many things you have learned. But if you find the reading pretty difficult now and then, you must not give up on that account.The hardest reading is very often the most profitable— provided always that we make ourselves the masters of it. There are a great many articles in the Britannica which may be utilized in courses of reading of this kind. If the Britannica is the only ...« less