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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment…
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If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is…
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;…
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