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Few realize what effect reading, under such careful instruction, can have on the unindulgent mind of a young man.We are burdened with books from the earliest days of childhood, and are so accustomed to learning without thinking that we are not impressed at all by what we read.In human history and human life, our desires and prejudices are full of us, so that we have separated from nature and judge others by our own appearance.