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"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."

Anna C. Brackett, American Philosopher

Force, Machines

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"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher."

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