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Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895)

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practised, is of the same general nature: authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.
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"Scientific Education - Notes of an After-dinner Speech." Macmillan's Magazine, Vol XX, 1869.
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