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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions. Alfred North Whitehead		Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
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	Emma Willard
	(1787-1870) The Cradle of the Deep - American educator, pioneer in womens education.

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Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep.

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