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The Study of Human Nature.

To the close student of human nature no place
offers such manifold attractions, such possibilities of
deep insight, such a mine of suggestion, such a
prodigality of illustration, as a pig-pen at feeding
time. It has been said, with allusion to this
philosophical pursuit, that “there is no place like
home;” but it will be seen that this is but another
form of the same assertion.—End of the Essay upon
the Study of Human Nature.