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We may, therefore, say that the substance of any line of thinking is of the same general nature as the substance of a printed page; and so far, the printed page is of the same general nature as the course of thinking itself. Now our whole intellectual life may be said (except for sensations and acts of attention) to be a mere pretended thinking. So I might show a reader who should not drop to sleep under the infliction that the whole soul of a man, even in its living qualities, is similar

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