"Intellect is void of affection and sees..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.
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