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chapter 7 "we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through water, and thinking that thick water of thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being."

"in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with their personal characteristics, habits, circumstances, and aims. They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced [.] imagining that they knew what they doing and did it of their own own free will but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us."

My dude literally locked this girl in a dark, rodent-filled attic and we are supposed to brush past it like that's okay?