Common sense and its cultivation / by Hanbury Hankin ; with a foreword by Dr. C.S. Myers.

  • Hankin, E. Hanbury (Ernest Hanbury), 1865-1939.
Date:
1926
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Credit: Common sense and its cultivation / by Hanbury Hankin ; with a foreword by Dr. C.S. Myers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Quakers, their shrewdness, 248. — , their success in busi¬ ness, 244. Railways, opinions of, 173. Raleigh, Lord, 15, 187. Ramanujan, story of, 63. Ramsay, Sir William, 187. Rankin, W. M., 115. Ray, Sir Prafulla, 124, 125. Reasoning, formal or conscious, 103. Reasoning on narrow range of data, 6, 236. Recognising character, 23, 25. Religion in education, 270, 272. Religion, uses of, 277, 276. Rhythm and multiplication, 81. Rhythm and music, 96. Roberts, Arthur, 196. Roberts, Lord, 217. Rumford, Count, 149. Saer, on learning languages, 207. Savages, mind of, 105. “ Schoolmaster’s pets,” 192. Scripture, 63, 73, 204. Scientific education, 206, 218. Self-made men, 192. Sherlock Holmes, 36, 48, 49. Slavery, abolition of, 256. Sleeping before deciding, 103. Soaring flight, observations of, 28, 178. Society of Friends, 238. Spencer, Herbert, the philoso¬ pher, 4, 5, 116, 130. ^ “ Spur of the moment,” 2, 20, 104. “ Stage-coach common sense,” 174- Statesmen, their method of deciding, 34. Stephenson, the founder of rail¬ ways, 172, 176. Stokes, Sir Gabriel, 1. Subconscious judgment, 12, 21. Subconscious mind, intellectual processes in, 9, 11. Subconscious multiplying, 76, 83- Subconscious mind, rapidity of its action, 29. Tact, 191. Tangye, Sir Richard, 249. Telegraph operators, 126. Telegraphist’s devided atten¬ tion, 68. Thrionic phrases, 3. Thugs, story of, 159. Thurtell, a murderer, 51. Travelling, use of, 170. “ Training one’s eye,” 28. Typewriting, 104. Vesalius, 184. Vocational education, 11, 184. Walker, Sir Gilbert, 178 Watt, James, inventor, 117. Wells, H. G., 167. Whitworth, Sir Joseph, 150.