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for one of the old "quarterlies," and his consequent unfortunate
taste for and skill in controversy, which, combined
with his having drunk in imbibed his father's wooden sterilizing nominalism
with his mother's milk, rendered him, for example, incapable
of appreciating Whewell, whose acquaintance with the
processes of thought of science was incomparably greater
than his own. J. S. Mill's beautiful style, of truly French perfection,
together with the bulk of the two thick volumes, prevent
all but the keenest readers from perceiving that he unconsciously