The History of a Great Mind a Survey of the Education And Opinions of John Stu
The History of a Great Mind a Survey of the Education And Opinions of John Stu
B a Burke Aaron Hinsdale
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In the first place, they developed mental power. Mr. Mill says he always dated from them his own " real inauguration as an original and independent thinker. " He continues : " It was also through them that I acquired, or very much strengthened, a mental habit to which I attribute all that I have ever done, or ever shall do, in speculation, that of never accepting half solutions of difficulties as complete^ never abandoning a puzzle, but again and again returning to it till it was cleared up ; n...ever allowing obscure corners of a subject to remain unexplored because they did not appear important ; never thinking that I *" Autobiography, " pp. 119, 120. The History of a Great Mind. I 3 perfectly understood any part of a subject until I understood the whole. " In the second place, these conversations were fertile in orig- inal thoughts, and they left their marks in permanent literature. Especially was this true in the fields of Political Economy and Logic. Here it was that Mill conceived the idea of writing a work on the latter science, and here, too, originated much of the substance of the work which he afterward executed.
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