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Scientific men, philosophers, literary persons, are not men and women who have so broken the bonds of habits that pure reason and emotion undefiled by use and wont speak through them.
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John Dewey
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Editor's note · Context
Dewey argues that intellectuals are not free from the influence of their habitual experiences.
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