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The Intellectual Life

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Personal Growth & Self-Development

The Intellectual Life

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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To a young man distracted by everything, Hamerton writes back patiently: the intellectual life is built, not found. His famous letters address real correspondents on time, money, marriage, health, and study as each bears on a thinking life. Part mentorship, part meditation, entirely humane. The essential companion for self-educators, a century running.

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111 chapters

  1. 1TO EUGÈNIE H.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4PART I.
  5. 5PART II.
  6. 6PART III.
  7. 7PART IV.
  8. 8PART V.
  9. 9PART VI.
  10. 10PART VII.
  11. 11PART VIII.
  12. 12PART IX.
  13. 13PART X.
  14. 14PART XI.
  15. 15PART XII.
  16. 16PART I.
  17. 17THE PHYSICAL BASIS.
  18. 18LETTER I.

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