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THERE are two conflicting theories with regard to education. The extreme partisans of one of these would have us believe that the great object of education is not so much to inform as to discipline the mind—the subject taught in a seminary may not in itself increase the student's real knowledge, yet if it tend to discipline his mind, it has proved its value in their eyes as a branch of education.
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The Recent Developments of Cosmical Physics *. Nature 2, 499–501 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002499a0
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