Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance an…

George Santayana
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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2014). The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three, p.305, MIT Press
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Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2014). The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three, p.305, MIT Press

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