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"The mind may aptly be described under the denomination of the ""stranger at home."" With their bodies most men are little acquainted. We are ""like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass, who beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he is."" In the ruminations of the inner man, and the dissecting our thoughts and desires, we employ our intellectual arithmetic, we add, and subtract, and multiply, and divide, without asking the aid, without adverting to the existence, of our joints and members. Even as to the more corporeal part of our avocations, we behold the external world, and proceed straight to the object of our desires, without almost ever thinking of this medium, our own material frame, unaided by which none of these things could be accomplished. In this sense we may properly be said to be spiritual existences, [page 11] however imperfect may be the idea we are enabled to affix to the term spirit.
(p. 10-1)",2009-09-14 19:47:21 UTC,"""In the ruminations of the inner man, and the dissecting our thoughts and desires, we employ our intellectual arithmetic, we add, and subtract, and multiply, and divide, without asking the aid, without adverting to the existence, of our joints and members""",2005-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,Essay I. Of Body and Mind. The Prologue.,"",,"",•Strange choice of metaphor in that sentence follows assertion that we are not well acquainted with our bodies. INTEREST.,"Searching ""mind"" at Electronic Text Center at UVA Library",16586,6270
"One of the reasons of the latter phenomenon consists in the torpedo effect of what we may call, under the circumstances, the difference of ranks. The schoolmaster is a despot to his scholar; for every man is a despot, who delivers his judgment from the single impulse of his own will. The boy answers his questioner, as Dolon answers Ulysses in the Iliad, at the point of the sword. It is to a certain degree the same thing, when the boy is questioned merely by his senior. He fears he knows not what, -- a reprimand, a look of lofty contempt, a gesture of summary disdain. He does not think it worth his while under these circumstances, to ""gird up the loins of his mind."" He cannot return a free and intrepid answer but to the person whom he regards as his equal. There is nothing that has so disqualifying an effect upon him who is to answer, as the consideration that he who questions is universally acknowledged to be a being of a higher sphere, or, as between the boy and the man, that he is the superior in conventional and corporal strength.",2009-09-14 19:47:22 UTC,"""He does not think it worth his while under these circumstances, to 'gird up the loins of his mind.'""",2005-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,Essay II. Of The Distribution of Talents.,"",,"","","Searching ""mind"" at Electronic Text Center at UVA Library",16592,6270
"Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. To accomplish this, it is most necessary that it should never be inculcated into him, that he is dull. Upon the principles of this Essay, any unfavourable appearances that may present themselves, do not arise from the dulness of the pupil, but from the error of those upon whose superintendence he is cast, who require of him the things for which he is not adapted, and neglect those in which he is qualified to excel.",2009-09-14 19:47:23 UTC,"""Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.""",2005-08-11 00:00:00 UTC,Essay II. Of The Distribution of Talents.,"",,"","","Searching ""mind"" at Electronic Text Center at UVA Library",16596,6270