The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Vol. 5: The New Zealanders (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Vol. 5: The New Zealanders

When we attempt to look into our own minds, with the desire to trace the progress of our individual knowledge, we are naturally 'enough surprised to find in how few cases the origin of our intellectual acquisitions can be referred to particular times or distinct circumstances. We' may indeed assign a date to our first study of a language or a science; and sometimes, by the aid of powerful associations, we may recollect our first impressions of some great truth which has had a permanent influence upon the conduct of our understanding. But still we feel that the bulk of our perceptions must have taken root in the mind, before we were sufficiently aware of their importance to record and classify them - and we confess that a large portion of the materials of our knowledge was collected at a period of our lives when we were unconscious of the process by which we acquired knowledge at all, or were acquiring it in a manner that now appears to us but the mere sport of a happy childhood.

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