It is thus written, because it is thus in life. Our action is overmast… — Essays
SAPIR 861
It is thus written, because it is thus in life. Our action is overmastered and characterized above our will by the law of nature. We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good, but our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
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