It takes the average reader and 59 minutes to read A Plea for Philosophy by John Nevin
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SOME will have it, that all philosophy is vain; and that the time bestowed upon it, in our colleges and elsewhere, is only wasted, or worse than wasted in the pursuit of a phantom that can never be reached, while it leads us away continually from the proper use of life. What men need in this world, we are told, is not speculation, but an active apprehension of the living realities with which they are immediately surrounded, and the proper practical use of these for the ends of their own existence. The world is a fact, broadly and palpably spread out before our senses; and our life is a fact,...
A Plea for Philosophy by John Nevin is 58 pages long, and a total of 14,964 words.
This makes it 20% the length of the average book. It also has 18% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 21 minutes to read A Plea for Philosophy aloud.
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