The Henson Journals

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Thursday, May 4th, 1911.

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~~It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity & sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel reading.~~

S. T. Coleridge. The Friend vol. I. p. 19

Convocation again all the morning: in the afternoon a discussion of the 'hardy annual' the Reform of Convocation was too much: I seceded from the sacred Synod, & had a walk with Logic in the Park.

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