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The judgement as to the facts -- that all human experience is of sheer, boundless change -- was doubtless excessive; but the value-judgement -- that if life be such pure shiftingness, then the cessation of life is the one end for man to work and pray for -- was assuredly the authentic cry of the human soul when fully normal and awake.
Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903
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