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That man has a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure the work that it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear logic engine, ready to spin the gossamer as well as forge the anchors of the mind—one full of life and fire but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a rigorous will; the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love beauty, to hate vileness and to respect others as himself; such a one is in harmony with nature; they will get on together.
That man has a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure the work that it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear logic engine, ready to spin the gossamer as well as forge the anchors of the mind—one full of life and fire but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a rigorous will; the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love beauty, to hate vileness and to respect others as himself; such a one is in harmony with nature; they will get on together.
Approximate author period: c. 1860 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Henry Huxley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1860 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Thomas Henry Huxley, based on documented lifetime 1825 to 1895. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184366 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184366 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 229; printed byline: Thomas Henry Huxley; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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