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Volume 1 Part 4. Chapter 3

III.—THE HABIT OF THINKING

… by ‘thinking,’ let us mean a real conscious effort of mind, and not the fancies that flit without effort through the brain.

…the sort of thing that the children should go through, more or less, in every lesson—a tracing of effect from cause, or of cause from effect; a comparing of things to find out wherein they are alike, and wherein they differ; a conclusion as to causes or consequences from certain premisses.