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The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.
The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.
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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