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My friend, Mr. Donald Cameron, of Exeter, to whom I 

 had sent the newspaper report of my essay, thinks there is need 

 in it of a definition of the meaning I attach to the word 

 " knowledge," a word which he says " a non-philosopher of 

 Scottish nationality defined as an 'act or operation of the 

 mind.'" Though I admit the aptness of the criticism, 

 I do not agree with the " non-philosopher" in his definition of 

 knowledge, the meaning of which I find given in the dictionaries 

 as " perception, learning, information, acquaintance, cognizance, 

 skill." It is in, the sense as connoted by the first five equiva- 

 lents that I have used the word, and I think my critic will 

 concede that there are many operations of the mind which are 

 not knowledge in this sense. Nor is the power for their 

 performance cultivated by the acquirement of knowledge. In 

 mental education it is for the cultivation of these powers I 

 plead. 



