But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.104, Graphic Arts Books
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