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... objects and phenomena like the sea , and so to the language which brings them to mind . The power of symbols thus is ... object : to him , a rock represents permanence or stead- fastness ; a mountain peak , aspiration ; an oak , strength ...
... objects and phenomena like the sea , and so to the language which brings them to mind . The power of symbols thus is ... object : to him , a rock represents permanence or stead- fastness ; a mountain peak , aspiration ; an oak , strength ...
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... objects which have especially powerful associations for us , because of the nature of our individual experience ; and many writers have seized upon particular objects in their own experi- ence and adopted them as recurrent symbols of ...
... objects which have especially powerful associations for us , because of the nature of our individual experience ; and many writers have seized upon particular objects in their own experi- ence and adopted them as recurrent symbols of ...
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... objects , have the same rights and liberties , and the same means of asserting them . Great as are the differences of position which remain , they are nothing to those which have ceased . And the assimi- lation is still proceeding . All ...
... objects , have the same rights and liberties , and the same means of asserting them . Great as are the differences of position which remain , they are nothing to those which have ceased . And the assimi- lation is still proceeding . All ...
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