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The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London
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Instinct wills, creates, carries on the work of the species.  The Intellect destroys, negatives, satirizes and ends in pure nihilism, instinct creates life, endlessly, hurling forth profusely and blindly its clowns, tragedians and ...more
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