"Discrimination is the necessary prelude of every intellectual impression as the basis of our stored-up knowledge or memory."
Definition of the state of mind significantly named Indifference,—"the state where differing impressions fail to be recognized as distinct."
"The retentive power works up to the height of the discriminative power; it can do no more."
Alex. Bain.
"The most delightful and fruitful of all the intellectual energies is the perception of similarity and agreement, by which we rise from the individual to the general, trace sameness in diversity, and master instead of being mastered by the multiplicity of nature."
Friedrich Froebel.
"It is by comparisons that we ascertain the difference which exists between things, and it is by comparisons, also, that we ascertain the general features of things, and it is by comparisons that we reach general propositions. In fact, comparisons are at the bottom of all philosophy."
Louis Agassiz.
READINGS FOR THE STUDENT.
From Cradle to School. Bertha Meyer. Pages 132, 133.