What Mary Wollstonecraft thinks about motivation

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English moral and political philosopher (1759 to 1797); author of A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

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1. 18 Dec 1790

   Our readingThe passions are necessary helpers of reason

   Their wordsThe passions are necessary auxiliaries of reason: a present impulse pushes us forward, and when we discover that the game did not deserve the chace, we find that we have gone over much ground, and not only gained many new ideas, but a habit of thinking.

   ↗A Vindication of the Rights of Men (2nd ed., 1790)en.wikisource.org All 5 from this book