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Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

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Henry George
Age: 58 †
Born: 1839
Born: September 2
Died: 1897
Died: October 29
Economist
Editor
Journalist
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Desire
Awakes
Form
Stirred
Men
Passings
Beast
Passing
Forms
Plant
Fitfully
Higher
Slumbered

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