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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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