THE LOST ART OP THINKING,
'A little hard thinking will anpply tho placo of a groat deal reading; and an hour or two spent in Huts manner sometimes lead you to conclusions which it would recpiire n roltuno to establish. Th® mind advances in its train of thought, as a. restive colt proceeds 011 the road in which you Wish to guide him; lie is always milling to °" )10 side or tho other, and dflviatiMß frora the proper path, to which it is your affair to bring him back, I liavo asked several men what passes ill tboir minds when they ate thinking: toicS I never could find any wan who. could think for two minutes together. Everybody lias seemed to admit that it was a perpotu.il deviation from a particular pal'li, and a perpetual return to it; which, imperfect as tho operation is, is tlio only method in which wo caii operate 'iviHi our minds to carry on any process of tkonght.—Sydney Smith.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1940, 24 December 1913, Page 9
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164THE LOST ART OP THINKING, Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1940, 24 December 1913, Page 9
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