Not till we are lost in other words not till we have lost the world do we begin to find ourselves and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau
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Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries sooner or later to every sandy cape and lighthouse of the New World which the censustaker visits and summons the savage there to surrender.
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The sail the play of its pulse so like our own lives so thin and yet so full of life so noiseless when it labors hardest so noisy and impatient when least effective.
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