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I should need to be both more patient and more accurate in observation . ... One may observe in different ways according to one's talents , temperament , and tastes — for instance , in a scientist's measuring , classifying , and ...
I should need to be both more patient and more accurate in observation . ... One may observe in different ways according to one's talents , temperament , and tastes — for instance , in a scientist's measuring , classifying , and ...
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Perhaps one should call the sort of experience I have been talking about “ poetic ” to distinguish it from the more objective , detached , “ scientific ” kind of observation the human mind is capable of .
Perhaps one should call the sort of experience I have been talking about “ poetic ” to distinguish it from the more objective , detached , “ scientific ” kind of observation the human mind is capable of .
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Scientific observation is one way to exercise this ability to listen , sociological another , linguistic another , and so on through various fields of observation . But the ability may also be exercised ...
Scientific observation is one way to exercise this ability to listen , sociological another , linguistic another , and so on through various fields of observation . But the ability may also be exercised ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Jan 2011 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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