Excerpt from Self-Formation or the History of an Individual Mind; Intended as a Guide for the Intellect, Vol. 2
A soul without reflection, like a pile
Without inhabitant, to ruin falls. - Vouno.
This was another epoch of my life - a resting place, to translate the word epoch from learned into plain language; and so, that I may do justice to etymology, I will stop a brief while and look around me, carrying myself back in imagination, as well as I may, to the scenes and sentiments of that period. I had passed from the childhood of my intellect to its boyhood. Instead of taking everything upon trust, and reproducing it upon order in the same form that it was given me, I had got by this time into the habit of looking out for myself, and combining and recombining as I pleased my store of imagery. I was becoming every day less mechanical and more rational. I was impatient of mere school drudgery.
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