The Anthropologist at Large: a Dr John Thorndyke Mystery (R Austin Freeman Masterpiece Collection)
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ISBN-13: 9781501044830 ISBN-10: 1501044834Synopsis
Thorndyke was not a newspaper reader. He viewed with extreme disfavour all scrappy and miscellaneous forms of literature, which, by presenting a disorderly series of unrelated items of information, tended, as he considered, to destroy the habit of consecutive mental effort. "It is most important," he once remarked to me, "habitually to pursue a definite train of thought, and to pursue it to a finish, instead of flitting indolently from one uncompleted topic to another, as the newspaper reader is so apt to do. Still, there is no harm in a daily paper-so long as you don't read it."