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For, to fix the pure thought and to identify it with the true and holy, we must first divide it from the base clogs of matter; and how can we effect this disjunction, save, as it hath ever been done, by passion, not simulate nor taken at second hand, cold,'bis coctum quasi, but rather presently and in our very selves reiterate?

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860