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This perception is a sword such as was never drawn before. It divides and detaches bone and marrow, soul and body, yea, almost the man from himself.
Life and Letters in New England (1867)
The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself. Men grew reflective and intellectual. There was a new consciousness.
Life and Letters in New England (1867)
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
Life and Letters in New England (1867)
There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
Life and Letters in New England (1867)