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... knowledge of which is so intimately essential to man's social safety and moral elevation , have nowhere been made the subject of a distinct philosophical disquisition . This undeniable omission of scientific research has left open and ...
... knowledge of which is so intimately essential to man's social safety and moral elevation , have nowhere been made the subject of a distinct philosophical disquisition . This undeniable omission of scientific research has left open and ...
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... Knowledge is power to the bad as well as to the good . If Napoleon had never known how to read , the carcer of his great genius might have been confined to piratical cruises on the Levant . By learning and knowledge he discovered his ...
... Knowledge is power to the bad as well as to the good . If Napoleon had never known how to read , the carcer of his great genius might have been confined to piratical cruises on the Levant . By learning and knowledge he discovered his ...
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... Knowledge cannot be instilled into , or made to improve , or give additional strength to a weak mind - on the contrary it inflates the vain , magnifies fools and dunces , and misleads the ignorant . A mere quack can be shunned , but it ...
... Knowledge cannot be instilled into , or made to improve , or give additional strength to a weak mind - on the contrary it inflates the vain , magnifies fools and dunces , and misleads the ignorant . A mere quack can be shunned , but it ...
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... knowledge of some employment upon which he can depend for subsistence , instead of keeping him at schools where he gets nothing but habits of distaste for honest labor . There is not one man in ten thousand who has vigor of in- tellect ...
... knowledge of some employment upon which he can depend for subsistence , instead of keeping him at schools where he gets nothing but habits of distaste for honest labor . There is not one man in ten thousand who has vigor of in- tellect ...
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... Knowledge and learning may be assumed with impunity by the crafty knave to the ignorant and unskilled , who should be indemnified against such frauds by certain and abundant scru- tiny . Nostrums , astrologers , pedagogues , demagogues ...
... Knowledge and learning may be assumed with impunity by the crafty knave to the ignorant and unskilled , who should be indemnified against such frauds by certain and abundant scru- tiny . Nostrums , astrologers , pedagogues , demagogues ...
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