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Page 8
Obviously the primal condition of all else must be found in a self - prompted
activity or wakefulness of intellect . The time when the drifting faculties begin to
feel the helm of will , when the youth passes from being merely receptive to
become ...
Obviously the primal condition of all else must be found in a self - prompted
activity or wakefulness of intellect . The time when the drifting faculties begin to
feel the helm of will , when the youth passes from being merely receptive to
become ...
Page 9
The mechanical intellect becomes dynamical , and the automatic man becomes
autonomic . It may be with a lower or a higher motion . The mind gropes round
restlessly by a yearning instinct ; it may be driven by the strong impulse of native
...
The mechanical intellect becomes dynamical , and the automatic man becomes
autonomic . It may be with a lower or a higher motion . The mind gropes round
restlessly by a yearning instinct ; it may be driven by the strong impulse of native
...
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The lower intellect can buy at no cheaper price than the higher , and the hour of
full intellectual emancipation comes only when the student has learned to serve
— to turn the whole freshness and sharpness of his intellect on any needful
theme ...
The lower intellect can buy at no cheaper price than the higher , and the hour of
full intellectual emancipation comes only when the student has learned to serve
— to turn the whole freshness and sharpness of his intellect on any needful
theme ...
Page 18
Provincialism of intellect is a calamity . All men of great achievements have had
to know what others achieved . The highest monuments are always built with the
spoils of the past . Any single genius 18 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESSES .
Provincialism of intellect is a calamity . All men of great achievements have had
to know what others achieved . The highest monuments are always built with the
spoils of the past . Any single genius 18 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESSES .
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... however , we must add to that fullness of material the quality of mental
equipoise or mastery , the power of grasping and managing it all . A man is to
possess , and not to be “ possessed with , ” his acquisitions . He wants an
intellect decisive ...
... however , we must add to that fullness of material the quality of mental
equipoise or mastery , the power of grasping and managing it all . A man is to
possess , and not to be “ possessed with , ” his acquisitions . He wants an
intellect decisive ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Anniversary Addresses |
| Author | Samuel Colcord Bartlett |
| Publisher | Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 517 pages |
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