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What does Lynd want to convey in his lesson Forgetting?

What does Lynd want to convey in his lesson Forgetting?

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  1. In this amusing essay, Robert Lynd has successfully justified the title as the entire essay revolves around the merits, demerits, and the common habits of “Forgetting”.

    Besides criticising the habit of forgetfulness, he has also defended the idea of forgetting as a blessing in disguise because people are often distressed and dissatisfied in their lives on remembering any sort of defeat, betrayal, or failure etc. Nobody can cure the inner trauma faced by depressed people.

    At such moments ,if people are able to forget things and bad incidents in their lives,then nothing can be more precious than this and thereby Lynd proves Absent mindedness as a Virtue.

    Forgetting Essay Summary by Robert Lynd

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