It was surely no fault of his that the universe seemed to him real; perhaps - as Mr. Emerson justly said - it was so. (Henry Adams)

It was surely no fault of his that the universe seemed to him real; perhaps - as Mr. Emerson justly said - it was so.

Henry Adams

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