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He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1842 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1803–1882); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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