To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath. β¨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, p.342
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