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But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought. - Walter Pater
Attribution: Walter Pater (1839–1894), British writer, educator. Marius the Epicurean, vol. I, ch. viii, p. 146, Macmillan, 2 vols. (1885).

Categories: Belief, Educator, Human Nature, Thinking And Thought, Writer

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