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Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Past, Soul, Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.173, Harvard University Press
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.