WorkJohn Abercrombie

Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth

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Documented 1834

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

p24, p28

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“he does not mention cases which make against him like those in Abercrombie of persons who have lived sometime with the brain diseased in the extreme… Compare this passage in Abercrombie - "These visions, frivolous and hurtful in which the mind wanders from scene to scene heedless of reason probability or truth (Truth?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.