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Anonymous Sat Oct 19 06:34:06 2019 No.14018594 [Reply] [Original]

I'm reading the improvement of the mind by Isaac watts, written in the 18th century. This inspired young Faraday quite a lot which made me read it.

Other books like this? Technically I guess this is a "self help" book, but not in the modern sense where frauds are cashing in by selling cliche platitudes or just common sense.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 19 06:42:22 2019 No.14018609 Years ago I found on archive.org a bunch of late 1800s "self help" books that were similar to that. I will see if I can find them again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 19 06:46:53 2019 No.14018621 >>14018609 What I like about this book is the author seems really sincere. He was a scholar who devoted his life to learning, I respect that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 19 08:20:54 2019 No.14018824 >>14018621 You American?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 19 08:44:47 2019 No.14018902 >>14018594 I've always liked his Psalter.

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