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New at IWP Books:Further Selections from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, Chosen and Edited by A. T. Bartholomew, 1934. Classification depends upon the shock of the mind which the perception of a difference occasions. The shock depends upon the amount of the difference. It is analogous…Read the post →
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