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Day 75 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge





Oct 27: BUDDHIST WRITINGS


Fruit of Seven Years' Silence

Siddhartha Gautama, who became the god Buddha, renounced
the world and spent seven years in meditation. Then one day,
while sitting under a fig tree, he became inspired with exalted
and sublime conceptions of life and death. The rest of his life
was spent in teaching and converting mankind.

Read from BUDDHIST WRITINGS ...............   Vol. 45, pp. 661-674



Oct 28: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION


How Dice Taught Spelling

Locke taught children by means of games. He tells of a game
whereby children were taught to spell with dice on which the
letters of the alphabet were pasted. This was more than 200 years
before modern kindergarten methods. Today's children would
respond to such wise direction as Locke recommends.

Read: SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING EDUCATION .........   Vol. 37, pp. 128-136



Oct 29: KEATS' POEMS

Genius Rises from a Stable

Though the son of a stable man, John Keats wrote the most exquisite
and sublime poetry in our language. He was the friend
of Shelley, Lord Byron, and the other literary leaders of the time—
his genius recognized by all.

Read: KEATS' POEMS ................................    Vol. 41, pp. 874-882



Oct 30: Lyell's THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGY


Geology's Greatest Benefactor

Lyell has been called the founder of modern geology. Darwin,
the master scientist, called h im "Geology's Greatest Benefactor."
Lyell's research revolutionized ideas on that subject.

Read from Lyell's THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGY ...........    Vol. 38, pp. 385-391