Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul... Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.
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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.
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