……今非昔比了。他 14 岁时在当地一家装订兼书商那里当学徒，并在青少年时期成了一名书痴。他后来写道，那期间读的一本书改变了他的一生——Isaac Watts 的《Improvement of the Mind》。他严格践行了书中自我提升的原则，并开始利用书店的资源自学科学。他开始去听一位著名化学家的公开讲座，……
…it is now. He was apprenticed to a local bookbinder and bookseller at age 14 and became a voracious reader as a teenager. He later wrote that one of the books he read during that time changed his life—Improvement of the Mind, by Isaac Watts. He rigorously applied the personal development principles within and began studying science on his own from the book shop. He started attending public lectures of a prominent chemist,…
还有一本 Isaac Watts 写的书《The Improvement of the Mind》（心灵的改善）。它甚至塑造了科学史上的一位伟人：迈克尔·法拉第（Michael Faraday）
There is also "The Improvement of the Mind" book, by Isaac Watts. It even shaped one of the great minds of science: Michael Faraday
……今非昔比了。他 14 岁时在当地一家装订兼书商那里当学徒，并在青少年时期成了一名书痴。他后来写道，那期间读的一本书改变了他的一生——Isaac Watts 的《Improvement of the Mind》。他严格践行了书中自我提升的原则，并开始利用书店的资源自学科学。他开始去听一位著名化学家的公开讲座，……
…it is now. He was apprenticed to a local bookbinder and bookseller at age 14 and became a voracious reader as a teenager. He later wrote that one of the books he read during that time changed his life—Improvement of the Mind, by Isaac Watts. He rigorously applied the personal development principles within and began studying science on his own from the book shop. He started attending public lectures of a prominent chemist,…