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Historically the division of labour originates in two facts of nature: the inequality of human abilities and the variety of the external conditions of human life on earth. These two facts are really one: the diversity of Nature
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I have been to the Alpine countries of Austria and Ardamia before, but never to this corner of the range, and while the journey to St. Liesl, which perches high above sea level, was not a comfortable one, it took my breath away. The path wound up a mountainside still dotted with the last of the summer flowers, snowbells and cheery buttercups. Mountains cluttered every horizon, many crowned in an eternal snow. Below us was the town of Leoburg with its railroad, its neat stone-and-timber buildings
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― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
― Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
