“The crop of spiritual talent that is born to you, of human nobleness and intellect and heroic faculty, this is infinitely more important than your crops of cotton or corn, or wine or herrings or whale-oil, which the Newspapers record with such anxiety every season.”

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The New Downing Street (April 15, 1850)

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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