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Mark Hopkins (September 1, 1813 - March 29, 1878) was an individual whose profession and category are not well-documented. His life story and contributions remain unclear due to limited information available.

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“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Thinking Feels Mind May Suffering Pieces Shapes Regard Dare Active Block Flames Iron Feds Statues Marble Rubbish Hammered Anvils

Book:Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

Source: Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

“All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.”

Mind Growth Discipline Activity Personal Power Yoke Symmetrical

Book:Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

Source: Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

“We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.”

Source: Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844