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The Photographic art-journal (1851)

Snelling, Henry Hunt, 1816-1897 · [New York : W.B. Smith] · leaf 117

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which presidesover the works of crea-tion. Since the worldbegan, nature, who hasgiven birth to hundreds of millionsof human beings has never perhaps,cast two faces in the same mould.To all she has imparted the sameorgans, distributed in conformity tocertain laws of proportion, nearly… … ly at least to unpractised eyes, be taken onefor the other. Still more diverse is the power of thehuman mind to remember, to imagine, andto arrange ; that power which creates with-in the little recesses of our brain fairy pa-laces, vast horizons, and entire worlds ;that power, in short, which…

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