“The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.”

— H. Havelock Ellis

Impressions and Comments http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8ells10.txt (1914)

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British physician, writer, and social reformer 1859–1939

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