"It was surely no fault of his that the universe seemed to him real; perhaps — as Mr. Emerson justly said — it was so."

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"A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years…"

"I disagree with my brother Charles and Theodore Roosevelt. I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the w…"

"Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be …"

"I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines ... We must slaughter…"

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