[U]niversities... have gradually allowed to fall into disus… - Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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[U]niversities... have gradually allowed to fall into disuse the powerful means which they possess of rousing the pupil to exertion, and have been too often content to act as mere oral instruments of information...

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (8 March 1788 – 6 May 1856) was a Scottish metaphysician.

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Birth Name: William Hamilton

Alternative Names: Sir William Stirling Hamilton of Preston, 9th Bt. • Sir William Hamilton

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Plato defines man "the hunter of truth," "for science is a chase, and in a chase the pursuit is always of greater value than the game."

The one condition under which all powers, and consequently the intellectual faculties, are developed, is exercise.

The past does not interest, the present does not satisfy, the future alone is the object which engages us.

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