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You Can Only Acquire Really Useful General Ideas By First Acquiring Particular Ideas . . . You Cannot Make Bricks Without Straw.

The Manner In Which One Single Ray Of Light, One Single Precious Hint, Will Clarify And Energize The Whole Mental Life Of Him Who Receives It, Is Among The Most Wonderful And Heavenly Of Intellectual Phenomena.

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