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reverie-meditation,—"Musement," we might call it,—as his daily refresher, were to come to me for advice, I should say: Adhere to the ordinance of Play, the law of liberty. I can testify that the last half-century, at least, has never lacked tribes of Six Oracles, colporting brocards to bar off one or another roadway of inquiry; and a Rabelais would be needed to bring out all the fun that is packed in their airs of infallibility. Auguste Comte, notwithstanding his having apparently produced some unquestionably genuine thinking, was long the chief of such a band. The vogue of each particular maxim is necessarily brief. For what air of distinction is to be gained by repeating sound heard in all mouths? No bygone fashion strikes one as more
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