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It is a tendency whose cramping influence is as steadily to be resisted even in
later life , much more in early training . We are to form ourselves on the model of
the integer rather than the fraction of humanity . The metaphysician cannot afford
to ...
It is a tendency whose cramping influence is as steadily to be resisted even in
later life , much more in early training . We are to form ourselves on the model of
the integer rather than the fraction of humanity . The metaphysician cannot afford
to ...
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Breadth and robustness given to the mental constitution in its early training shall
go far through life to save us from partial paralysis or monstrosity . To ensure this
result , however , we must add to that fullness of material the quality of mental ...
Breadth and robustness given to the mental constitution in its early training shall
go far through life to save us from partial paralysis or monstrosity . To ensure this
result , however , we must add to that fullness of material the quality of mental ...
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It was exactly the power with which our Webster handled his case , till it seemed
to the farmer too simple to require a great man to argue . It was the quality that
Lincoln so toiled at through his early manhood , and so admirably gained — the ...
It was exactly the power with which our Webster handled his case , till it seemed
to the farmer too simple to require a great man to argue . It was the quality that
Lincoln so toiled at through his early manhood , and so admirably gained — the ...
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We have no disposition even with so eminent an authority as St . George Mivart
to denominate Natural Selection “ a puerile hypothesis . ” We will promise to pay
our respects to our " early progenitor ” of “ arboreal habits ” and “ ears pointed ...
We have no disposition even with so eminent an authority as St . George Mivart
to denominate Natural Selection “ a puerile hypothesis . ” We will promise to pay
our respects to our " early progenitor ” of “ arboreal habits ” and “ ears pointed ...
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See him begin in his early youth by saying , “ I do not ask myself whether I can do
a thing ; I command myself to do it . " Read the singular sketch of his intellectual
gymnastics at twenty - one , spurring himself to “ inward deep voluntary thought ...
See him begin in his early youth by saying , “ I do not ask myself whether I can do
a thing ; I command myself to do it . " Read the singular sketch of his intellectual
gymnastics at twenty - one , spurring himself to “ inward deep voluntary thought ...
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