"Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade.……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry."
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