[351]
Ann Moss writes that “the commonplace-book was part of the
initial intellectual experience of every schoolboy” in the Renaissance.
Printed Commonplace-Books, viii.
[352]
Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, vol. 4, ed. James
Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath (London:
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Naomi s. Baron, Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile
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[354]
Clive Thompson, “Your Outboard Brain Knows All,” Wired,
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[355]
David Brooks, “The Outsourced Brain,” New York Times, October
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[356]
Peter Suderman, “Your Brain Is an Index,” American Scene, May
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Alexandra Frean, “Google Generation Has No Need for Rote
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[358]
Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1998), 187.
[359]
William James, Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students
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See Eric R. Kandel, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a
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[361]
Ibid., 210-11.