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A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial

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George Eliot
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Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial
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