I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, p.382
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