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He thinks nothing more absurd than the common notion of Instruction, as if Science were to be poured into the Mind, like water into a cistern, that passively waits to receive all that comes.
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
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James Harris
Born:
July 24, 1709
Died:
December 22, 1780
(aged 71)
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James Harris, FRS was an English politician and grammarian. He was the author of Hermes, a philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar.
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