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Essays on Work and Culture
No full textHamilton Wright Mabie's "Essays on Work and Culture" is a profound philosophical examination that posits work as the primary instrument for educating the human spirit. Mabie argues that work is not a penalty but the highest spiritual opportunity for character development and the most comprehensive educational process. The author critiques the prevalent fallacy of specialisation in the modern American consciousness, where a man is lauded for doing one thing well but is suspected of superficiality if he attempts more, an attitude that reduces man to a tool or machine.
For Mabie, the ultimate aim of work is neither material gain nor fame, but perfect self-expression and complete self-development. Highest achievement relies on character rather than mere talent, with sincerity, persistence, and self-denial forming the moral core of skill. The essay highlights imagination as a creator and constructor, essential not only for artists but also for engineers and constructive men across all fields. Mabie states that relaxation and recreation are necessary for work's freshness and productiveness, suggesting that an individual realizes their potential only through action in their chosen field and through fellowship with the race's collective experience. Ultimately, this collection of essays reveals that the secret to supreme success and happiness lies in the capacity for complete self-surrender and the ability to lose oneself in a generous and adequate task.Hamilton Wright Mabie’nin “Essays on Work and Culture” eseri, çalışmayı insan ruhunun eğitimi için birincil araç olarak ele alan derin bir felsefi incelemedir. Mabie, çalışmanın bir ceza değil , karakterin gelişimi için en yüksek manevi fırsat ve en kapsamlı eğitim süreci olduğunu savunur. Yazar, modern Amerikan bilincindeki yaygın uzmanlaşma yanılgısını eleştirir; tek bir işi iyi yapan kişinin takdir edildiği, ancak birden fazla alana ilgi duyanın yüzeysellikle suçlandığı bu anlayışın, insanı bir araç veya makineye indirgediğini belirtir.
Mabie’ye göre, çalışmanın nihai amacı maddi kazanç ya da şöhret değil , kusursuz kendini ifade etme ve bütünsel kişisel gelişimdir. En yüksek başarı, yetenekten çok karaktere dayanır; dürüstlük, sebat ve özveri, becerinin manevi içeriğini oluşturur. Eser, hayal gücünün (imagination) sadece sanatçılar için değil, aynı zamanda mühendisler ve iş adamları için de yaratıcı ve yapılandırıcı bir güç olduğunu vurgular. Mabie, dinlenme (relaxation) ve eğlencenin (recreation) işin tazeliği ve üretkenliği için bir zorunluluk olduğunu belirterek , bireyin potansiyelini ancak kendi işini yaparak ve ırkın kolektif birikimiyle birlik (fellowship) kurarak gerçekleştirebileceğini ortaya koyar. Nihayetinde, bu denemeler dizisi, üstün başarı ve mutluluğun sırrının, bir göreve kendini bütünüyle adama ve kendini kaybetme yeteneğinde yattığını gösterir
Books and Culture
No full textIn Books and Culture (1896) , Hamilton Wright Mabie argues for the necessity of reading to achieve genuine "culture". He defines culture not as a "knapsack" of miscellaneous information , but as a vital process: the "unfolding and enrichment of the human spirit". This process is about the quality of knowledge, not the quantity , and is always a result of internal growth. The ultimate goal of engaging with books is this "personal enrichment" —the enlargement and development of the "mysterious personality" This growth is achieved by engaging with the "books of life" or "books of power" , as distinct from mere "books of knowledge". These masterpieces, exemplified by Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe , are "inexhaustible" because they interpret the "life of the world". To gain culture from them, one does not need vast leisure , but rather a "thrift of time" , utilizing spare minutes. The reader must go beyond reading for information and use "meditation and by the constant use of the imagination". This involves cultivating a "feeling for literature" and a "freshness of feeling" , seeing the familiar world with a "childlike directness and delight".Hamilton Wright Mabie, Books and Culture (1896) adlı eserinde , gerçek "kültüre" ulaşmak için okumanın gerekliliğini savunur. Kültürü, "çeşitli bilgilerle" dolu bir "sırt çantası" olarak değil , hayati bir süreç olarak tanımlar: "insan ruhunun gelişmesi ve zenginleşmesi". Bu süreç, bilginin niceliği değil niteliği ile ilgilidir ve her zaman içsel bir büyümenin sonucudur. Kitaplarla meşgul olmanın nihai amacı bu "kişisel zenginleşmedir" —"gizemli kişiliğin" genişlemesi ve gelişmesidir. Bu büyüme, salt "bilgi kitaplarından" farklı olarak, "hayat kitapları" veya "güç kitapları" ile meşgul olarak elde edilir. Homeros, Dante, Shakespeare ve Goethe'nin örneklediği bu başyapıtlar, "dünyanın hayatını" yorumladıkları için "tükenmezdir". Onlardan kültür elde etmek için geniş bir boş zamana değil, "zaman tasarrufuna" (boş dakikaları kullanarak ) ihtiyaç vardır. Okur, bilgi edinmek için okumanın ötesine geçmeli ve "tefekkür etme ve hayal gücünü sürekli kullanma" alışkanlığını edinmelidir. Bu, "edebiyat hissini" ve "duygu tazeliğini" geliştirmeyi, alışılmış dünyayı "çocuksu bir doğallık ve keyifle" görmeyi içerir
Under the trees, by Hamilton Wright Mabie; illustrated and decorated by C.L. Hinton.
No full text165 p., 1 l
My study fire, by Hamilton Wright Mabie, with sixty-five illustrations by Maude Alice & Genevieve Cowles.
No full textx, 288 p
Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories
Full text linkDescription:. Mabie, Hamilton Wright and Daniel Edwin Wheeler, eds. Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories. New York: The University Society, 1909. Note: Volume III from the twelve-volume set, Young Folks Treasury in Twelve Volumes.
Project Identifier: faulkner_library_031; faulkner_library_032
Rowan Oak Accession Number:2021.001.0195
Condition: The hardback volume is in fair/fragile condition. There is wear to the binding and separation in the gutters of the book.
1962 Location: Rowan Oak Library Room
Current Location: Rowan Oak Library Room
Annotations/Inscriptions: There are no inscriptions or annotations present in the volume.
Notes: The remaining volumes in this series are not present in the current library and were not noted in Joseph Blotner’s William Faulkner’s Library: A Catalogue (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1964).https://egrove.olemiss.edu/faulkner_library_books/1017/thumbnail.jp
Heroes every child should know : edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie.
No full textAssociate editor: Kate Stephens.Illustrated end-papers.Mode of access: Internet
The library of American history, literature and biography ... by Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lit. D., William Wilfred Birdsall, A. M., Edward Everett Hale, LL. D., and other distinguished writers ...
No full textxiv, 15-736 p
Young Folk's Treasury in 12 Volumes, Volume 1
No full textThis book came originally from St. Cecilia Grade School in Omaha. It has two nice sections on the fables of Aesop and of India, respectively (220-225 and 226-31). Though Joseph Jacobs is on the editorial board, the translation of the fourteen Aesopic fables here is not from Jacobs. There are two excellent small illustrations of TH and FWT facing 224. The S.R.P. who did them may well be Sophie Rosamund Praeger. The nine fables of India, adapted by P.V. Ramaswami Raju, include several that are new to me. Particularly good is The Man and his Piece of Cloth (227). Though Mabie also edited Boys' and Girls' Bookshelf, Volume 2, in 1912, the two texts seem to make a strenous and successful effort not to overlap at all in their choice of fables. This book is missing xvii-10.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Hamilton Wright Mabi
Hamilton Wright Mabie
No full textTitle from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbai
A new history for American homes. Our own country; its history and achievements and the story of our great men and women, by ... Hamilton W. Mabie ... Col. Marshal H. Bright ... and others. A great cyclopaedia of American history.
No full textxvii, [18]-560 pp
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