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Instinct is untaught ability.

— Alexander Bain The Senses and the Intellect (1855)

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The method of arithmetical teaching]] is perhaps the best understood of any of the methods concerned with elementary studies.

Disinterestedness is as great a puzzle and paradox as ever. Indeed, strictly speaking, it is a species of irrationality, or insanity, as regards the individual’s self; a contradiction of the most essential nature of a sentient being, which is to move to pleasure and from pain

The arguments for the two substances - mind and body - have, we believe, entirely lost their validity; they are no longer compatible with ascertained science and clear thinking. One substance with two sets of attributes, two sides (a physical and a mental), a double-faced unity, would appear to comply with all the exigencies of the case.

Alexander Bain. Mind and Body: The Theories of their Relation (1872)

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