晨读英语美文100篇文本[1].pdf

[00:]星火书业晨读英语美文 100 篇六级

[00:]Passage 1. knowledge and Virtue

[00:]Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another;

[00:]good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility,

[00:]nor is largeness and justness of view faith.

[00:]Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound,

[00:]gives mand over the passions, no influential motives, no
vivifying princip les.

[00:]Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the
gentleman.

[01:]It is well to be a gentleman,

[01:]it is well to have a cult ivated intellect, a delicate taste,

[01:]a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind,

[01:]a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life

[01:]—these are the connatural qualit ies of a large knowledge;

[01:]they are the objects of a University.

[01:]I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them;

[01:]but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for
conscientiousness,

[01:]and they may attach to the man of the world, to the profligate,

[01:]to the heartless, pleasant, alas, and attractive as he shows when
decked out in them.

[01:]Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not;

[01:]they look like virtue at a distance, but they are detected by close
observers, and in the long run;
[02:]and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and
hypocris y,

[02:]not, I repeat, from their own fault,

[02:]but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking
them for what they are not,

[02:]and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have
no claim.

[02:]Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread
of silk,

[02:]then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as
human knowledge

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