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The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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