Excerpt from Mental Discipline: With Reference to the Acquisition and Communication of Knowledge, and to Education Generally
Tar-z history of the little volume, here with presented to the public, is simply this. While engaged some years since in aca demical study as principal of a seminary, the subject of mental discipline often passed in review; and for the most part, the principles imbodied in this treatise were discussed and enforced by the author in connection with the study of mental philosophy. More recently the work of H. F. Burder, on Mental Discipline, has fallen into his hands. That work, so far.
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