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- Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
- I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the…
- All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing…
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