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Maria Montessori said that the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
We have Pezizæ with a subiculum in the section Tapesia, but the veriest tyro would not confound them with species of Parmelia.
One need never confound this species with the meadow mushroom, for the spores of that are always purple-brown, while a spore-print of this will always reveal white spores.
There is no poisonous species with which one is likely to confound it.
Care should be taken not to confound them with the species of Polyporus that have elongated curved pores.
We complain of the contempt with which practical men regard theory, and,[67] to confound them, triumphantly exhibit the speculative achievements of master minds.
"You will have a fine story to tell of how the great scholars laughed at your discovery, and how you got about and told people, and they subscribed, and your book was published, and how you sent it to all of them-to show the mistake they had made-and how the English people have got the book now, to confound the scholars; and how your mission is accomplished, and you are at home again-to live and die among your own people.
Under these conditions of operation I have sometimes[186] observed results so extraordinary, as to confound the imagination.
I beg Professor Grasset not to confound the impartial, unbiased research for scientific truth with spiritism.
Hence, to conceive of Pragmatism as ultimately sanctioning an "act-as-if" attitude of religious make-believe is a misapprehension; it is to confound it with the discredited and ineffectual dualism of Kant's antithesis of practical and theoretic "reason.
It has not been an uncommon habit among scientific authors, who should be of all men the most careful and exact, to confound assertion with fact-to mistake hypothesis for truth.
Even in scrofulous and enfeebled cases, small doses of blue pill or of Calomel are often signally useful; and not prejudicial, as is sometimes stated by those who confound their application with that of Mercury given in salivating doses.
But we must take care not to confound nervous force with vital force.
But we must not confound with Neurotics those medicines which exert a slow operation in the blood which results at length in a nervous affection.
And again, we must be careful not to confound intensity of pleasure with intensity of sensation: as a pleasant feeling may be strong and absorbing, and yet not so pleasant as another that is more subtle and delicate.
It must not therefore be supposed that its decision is a simple matter, introspection being always infallible: on the contrary, experience leads me to regard men as often liable to confound with moral intuitions other states or acts of mind essentially different from them,-blind impulses to certain kinds of action or vague sentiments of preference for them, or conclusions from rapid[212] and half-unconscious processes of reasoning, or current opinions to which familiarity has given an illusory air of self-evidence.
It is needful to insist on this, because most persons are liable to confound intuitions, on the one hand with mere impressions or impulses, which to careful observation do not present themselves as claiming to be dictates of Reason; and on the other hand, with mere opinions, to which the familiarity that comes from frequent hearing and repetition often gives a false appearance of self-evidence which attentive reflection disperses.
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