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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

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Walter Elliott

Walter Elliott

Walter Elliott (1842-1928) was an American Roman Catholic priest and missionary, who authored the controversial 1891 book Life of Father Hecker , a biography of the missionary Isaac Hecker, which sparked the Americanism controversy.

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