The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson 1834-1872Chatto & Windus, 1883 |
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Page 2 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.
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Page 306 - We are all a little wild here with numberless projects of social reform. Not a reading man but has a draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket.
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