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But that a man whose instruction is really valuable should thus break in upon the hour, is something to us quite incomprehensible, not only when we consider that he thus deprives one part of his class from any benefit in his instruction, but also from the difficulty which most persons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND QUERIES. | 1/15/1875 | See Source »

MR. BAIN'S treatment of the mind and its faculties is peculiar. Instead of following the beaten path of theoretical philosophy of the past, which is occupied with the mind as a mere abstraction, he attempts to study it in the only way in which a knowledge of it can...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. BAIN'S MENTAL SCIENCE. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

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