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... Science and Medicine by the Scottish Universities Commission , and the extension of Marischal College Buildings . In the numerous discussions on these topics , between 1890 and 1896 , Professor Bain took a prominent part . Contemporary ...
... Science and Medicine by the Scottish Universities Commission , and the extension of Marischal College Buildings . In the numerous discussions on these topics , between 1890 and 1896 , Professor Bain took a prominent part . Contemporary ...
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... science and even metaphysics , —all which the sons turned to account . The eldest may have been five years my senior . The brothers were already self - taught mathematicians , like myself , and were also well up in elementary Physics ...
... science and even metaphysics , —all which the sons turned to account . The eldest may have been five years my senior . The brothers were already self - taught mathematicians , like myself , and were also well up in elementary Physics ...
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... Science . The name of Reid as the leader of Scottish Metaphysics became familiar ; but I did not then attempt to read even the Inquiry , as the Stewarts had done . Again , in theology , they were well posted up . They posed me here too ...
... Science . The name of Reid as the leader of Scottish Metaphysics became familiar ; but I did not then attempt to read even the Inquiry , as the Stewarts had done . Again , in theology , they were well posted up . They posed me here too ...
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... observations to appeal to in encountering psycho- logical theories in reading . From the memoranda jotted down at the end of 1836 , I infer that I had BEGINNING OF STUDY IN MENTAL SCIENCE . 31 now become 30 EARLY LIFE . - 1818-36 .
... observations to appeal to in encountering psycho- logical theories in reading . From the memoranda jotted down at the end of 1836 , I infer that I had BEGINNING OF STUDY IN MENTAL SCIENCE . 31 now become 30 EARLY LIFE . - 1818-36 .
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Alexander Bain William Leslie Davidson. BEGINNING OF STUDY IN MENTAL SCIENCE . 31 now become enthusiastic in the study of mind as a pursuit , and that it more than divided my attention with Mathematics and Natural Philo- sophy . Still ...
Alexander Bain William Leslie Davidson. BEGINNING OF STUDY IN MENTAL SCIENCE . 31 now become enthusiastic in the study of mind as a pursuit , and that it more than divided my attention with Mathematics and Natural Philo- sophy . Still ...
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