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A few paragraphs must be added in
A few paragraphs must be added in further inculcation of the two general principles, that are alike the most important and the least attended to; namely, the principle that throughout youth, as in early childhood and in maturity, the process shall be one of self-instruction; and the obverse principle, that the mental action induced shall be throughout intrinsically grateful.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

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