"Reexamination" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... before an author: it is to decide what stamp to put upon such elusive matter as ideas. They cannot be kept long enough in the twilight of consciousness to analyze them; and often ideas that have been marked "accepted" have, upon reexamination, to be "rejected." To examine ideas—the material used in this form of discourse—so thoroughly that they may be accurately, definitely known in their backward relation and their bearing upon what follows, this is the seat of the ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster |
