Essays Philosophical (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essays Philosophical

Brother Azarias, as Christian educator and leader of thought, has rendered such service to the youth of our generation as deserves their lasting gratitude. The republication of his writings, while the most appropriate monument to himself, will make him a benefactor to generations yet to come.

Having consecrated his life to the humble, yet sublime vocation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, his exceptional abilities were entirely devoted to that training of the young in knowledge and in virtue which alone deserves to be called education. Along that upward pathway of the mind and heart he advanced with his disciples to higher and higher levels. Following the bent of his genius, the needs of his scholars, and the guidance of Providence, he gradually passed from the plane of elementary instruction to learned studies in literature and philosophy. Happy they among his youthful admirers who were able to keep up with him in the onward march-even they whose intellectual powers could not go so far and so high received from him an impulse and an inspiration which brought them higher than they would otherwise have reached.

Such a teacher naturally became a writer.

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