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Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.

William Torrey Harris

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William Torrey Harris
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: September 10
Died: 1909
Died: November 5
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Killingly
Connecticut
William T. Harris
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