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vague and profitless to the minds. Unless, that the
logicians call, the concretes is the
has been in some some way perceived, the abstract
will make no impression; the ind has nothing to
grasp, abstractions or principles soon escape from the
memory. This may appear the statement of a
mere truism but it may be shewn that the want of
a clear perception of this truth is the main cause
of inefficiency and dryness of the larger
proportion of instructional works called elementary
which usually proceed in the reverse order
giving the principles abstract expressions first, using
exemplifications only where they are absolutely necessary
or not at all, which course is called laying a good
foundation of general principles as "grounding the
pupils in general principles".

Exemplifications are, of the of usually deemed proofs and
unless where statements of principles are unaccompanied by those
proofs nor is assent witheld but their absence invites
attack from the ignorant and self interested who are
thereby enabled to attack them successfully and expel
them from the popular mind.

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