... I began at the beginning, and read Hind's , Whately's , Reid's . But the book which was of most use to me on these subjects was Stewart's . I found on odd volume of this in my father's study at Hauxwell. It attracted me; I read and re-read it with increasing satisfaction. To Dugald Stewart, an author now obsolete, I owe the first infusion of a taste for philosophical inquiry. ....
Mark Pattison