Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of …

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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know. ✨ William James (2012). The Principles of Psychology, p.182, Courier Corporation
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know. ✨ William James (2012). The Principles of Psychology, p.182, Courier Corporation

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