Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, nor a mark of haste, or botching, or a second thought but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, nor a mark of haste, or botching, or a second thought but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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