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Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

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Ambrose Bierce
Born: 1842
Born: June 24
Aphorist
Journalist
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Meigs County
Ohio
Dod Grile
William Herman
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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