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"Of Memory and Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1783
" In this way, too, we learn to think for ourselves, and acquire in time a stock of knowledge that is properly of our own growth: which is proof, that our minds are really cultivated, and serves as an encouragement to persist in making further acquisitions."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)