Download or read book Love and Mr. Lewisham written by Herbert George Wells and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1900 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But just think of the admirable quality of such a scheme! Up and busy at five, with all the world about one horizontal, warm, dreamy-brained or stupidly hullish, if roused, roused only to grunt and sigh and roll over again into oblivion. By eight three hours' clear start, three hours' knowledge ahead of everyone. It takes, I have been told by an eminent scholar, about a thousand hours of sincere work to learn a language completely-after three or four languages much less-which gives you, even at the outset, one each a year before breakfast. The gift of tongues-picked up like mushrooms! Then that "literature"-an astonishing conception! In the afternoon mathematics and the sciences. Could anything be simpler or more magnificent? In six years Mr. Lewisham will have his five or six languages, a sound, all-round education, a habit of tremendous industry, and be still but four-and-twenty. He will already have honour in his university and ampler means. One realises that those pamphlets in the Liberal interests will be no obscure platitudes. Where Mr. Lewisham will be at thirty stirs the imagination. There will be modifications of the Schema, of course, as experience widens. But the spirit of it-the spirit of it is a devouring flame!