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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... VII THINKING AND BEADING P to now I have dealt with thinking almost as if it could be carried on without external aid. As with cautionary and constructive thought, I have perhaps been led to do this because of a reaction from the usual insistence upon reading as indispensable to mental improvement, and the corresponding neglect of the need for independent thinking. Men thought before there were books, and men can still think without reading, but they cannot ... I was about to remark that they could not read without thinking, but on second thought I am inclined to doubt it. However, we have clung to the natural order, for we first considered unaided thinking, then the help given by conversation and dispute, and finally we are to examine the aid rendered by reading. There can be no doubt that this order follows the de-- v? velopment of thought both in the individual and J in the human race. - While no complaint can be made of lack of quantity in what has been written on reading, most of it has not taken up the subject from the proper standpoint; still less has dealt with it in the right manner. There has been counV sel galore urging people to read; and recently DEGREES> there has been a great deal of advice on what to DEGREES read. But comparatively very little has been said on how to read. At one time reading was No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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He was only 18 or 19 writing this and he wrote some great stuff after so it was kind of interesting to read as a view into his development.
On another non-critical note, the book is not about the process of thinking but is about how to become 'a thinker'. ( )