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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Theodore Parker (1860). (search)
gh work for three men to do; and he sank under the burden. Lord Bacon says, Studies teach not their own use; that comes from a wisdom without them and above them. The fault of New England scholarship is that it knows not its own use; that, as Bacon says, it settles in its fixed ways, and does not seek reformation. The praise of this scholar is, that, like the great master of English philosophy, he was content to light his torch at every man's candle. He was not ashamed to learn. When he has left this desk, and gone there to finish the great works that he planned! Some speak of his death as early; but he died in good old age, if we judge him by his work,--full of labors, if not of years, a long life crowded into a few years; as Bacon says, Old in hours, for he lost no time. Truly, he lost not an hour, from the early years,--when in his sweet, plain phrase, he tells us, his father let the baby pick up chips, drive the cows to pasture, and carry nubs of corn to the oxen, --far