“I dare truly and boldly say, that one years exercise therein to ingenious spirits, under able Masters, will produce more real and true fruit, than the studying Aristotelian Philosophy hath brought forth in many centuries. O that the Schools therefore would leave their idle, and fruitless speculations, and not be too proud to put their hands to the coals and furnace, where they might find ocular experiments to confute their fopperies, and produce effects that would be beneficial to all posterities.”

Source: The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795–1822), Ch. III.

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 2, Metaphysics and Metaphor, p. 26

On Progress: Its Law and Cause
Essays on Education (1861)

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 70

Song 20: "Against Idleness and Mischief".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)

A Passion for Democracy: American Essays (2000) p. 211

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His noting in his dairy after his contesting election in 1886 page=10.
Narrow-majority’ and ‘Bow-and-agree’: Public Attitudes Towards the Elections of the First Asian MPs in Britain, Dadabhai Naoroji and Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree, 1885-1906