Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a Sy…

Thomas Carlyle
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1840). Works, p.20
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