“Am I a free agent, or am I merely the manifestation of a foreign power? Neither appear sufficiently well founded. By the most courageous resolve of my life am I reduced to this! what Power can save me from it, from myself?”

Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p. 24
The Vocation of Man (1800), Doubt

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