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Primitive
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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic,
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― Complete Prose Works
― Complete Prose Works
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She was too ignorant, uneducated, in that kind of physically sophisticated, lovely-assed Texan way. An American primitive.
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― The Gasp
― The Gasp
