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Books Minister To Our Knowledge, To Our Guidance, And To Our Delight, By Their Truth, Their Uprightness, And Their Art.

If I Advance New Views In Philosophy Or Theology, I Cannot Expect To Have Many Adherents Among Minds Altogether Unprepared For Such Views; Yet It Is Certain That Even Those Who Most Fiercely Oppose Me Will Recognize The Power Of My Voice If It Is Not A Mere Echo; And The Very Novelty Will Challenge Attention, And At Last Gain Adherents If My Views Have Any Real Insight.

Character Is Built Out Of Circumstances. From Exactly The Same Materials, One Man Builds Palaces, While Another Builds Hovels.

Not Only The Individual Experience Slowly Acquired, But The Accumulated Experience Of The Race, Organized In Language, Condensed In Instruments And Axioms, And In What May Be Called The Inherited Intuitions--these Form The Multiple Unity Which Is Expressed In The Abstract Term "experience.

To His [ Plato's ] Great Disappointment, He Found Anaxagoras Adducing Simple Physical Reasons, Instead Of The Teleological Reasons, Which He Had Expected. Such A Teacher Could No Longer Allure Him.