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... his motives . But this intelligence and this will cannot work in the air : materials on which they may exercise their formal activity must be provided , and it is these which the instincts of our nature 4 [ LECT . LANGUAGE THE SUPREME.
... his motives . But this intelligence and this will cannot work in the air : materials on which they may exercise their formal activity must be provided , and it is these which the instincts of our nature 4 [ LECT . LANGUAGE THE SUPREME.
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... exercising the intelligence purely as such — as a system of abstract powers , we shall best fit it for coping with the ... exercise is not practicable till the period of adolescence , when the great mass of the population has already ...
... exercising the intelligence purely as such — as a system of abstract powers , we shall best fit it for coping with the ... exercise is not practicable till the period of adolescence , when the great mass of the population has already ...
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... exercise the abstract powers are so involved in a concrete familiar to all , that the formal discipline is not made obtrusive and distasteful . A boy who is intelligently analysing language is analysing the processes of thought , and is ...
... exercise the abstract powers are so involved in a concrete familiar to all , that the formal discipline is not made obtrusive and distasteful . A boy who is intelligently analysing language is analysing the processes of thought , and is ...
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... exercise of the intellectual processes , simply as such , than occupation with the concrete or real possibly can be . Exercise in the abstract thus tends to give power to our intellec- tual processes a power which , inasmuch as these ...
... exercise of the intellectual processes , simply as such , than occupation with the concrete or real possibly can be . Exercise in the abstract thus tends to give power to our intellec- tual processes a power which , inasmuch as these ...
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... exercise of mind , and rightly not attempted till boys have left school . It is formal logic . The fixing of mind on the generalised character of words and their inter - relations in a sentence is also a difficult exercise ; but this ...
... exercise of mind , and rightly not attempted till boys have left school . It is formal logic . The fixing of mind on the generalised character of words and their inter - relations in a sentence is also a difficult exercise ; but this ...
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