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heart of things. He was free; he 
was sane; he had silence, solitude, 
and the pure heart; and the world 
spoke to him : these are always the 
simple annals of the seers and poets. 
This continual flowering of thought 
in his mind came at last to have a 
record ; for he formed a habit o\ 
keeping a register of his thoughts. 
It was a skeleton report ; a bare 
outline ; for some defect in his na- 
ture kept him from any approach to 
free expression. He was content 
to make signs ; to keep a tew brief 
data; a running account of the 
things he saw, heard, felt, and 
thought. As he grew older this 
history of his spirit grew, not fuller, 
but more exact and definite; it was 
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