AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY ALEXANDER BAIN, LL.D. PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (WITH SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER) WITH PORTRAITS LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK AND BOMBAY PREPARATORY NOTE OF EXPLANATION. THE following are the objects I had in view in the present volume : I. To acknowledge indebtedness for assistance rendered in numerous forms and by many individuals in the varying exigencies of my career. In the absence of such assistance, I should have probably failed to accomplish the work and reach the position finally attained. II. More especially to indicate the stages of mental growth, under the circumstances of the time. Institutions and varying influences had here to be reckoned with, and not individuals solely. The changes that have From the nature of the case, the institutions most dwelt upon are educational-schools, colleges and universities. taken place in all that relates to teaching are so numerous and so great, that a historic, not to say antiquarian, interest attaches to many of these details. 130620 |