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In the communion of mind with mind, in the mutual interchange of ideas, the first condition necessary for establishing between him who speaks and those that hear, the sympathetic harmony which makes its charm, is, that the word shall reach the understanding without obstacle and without effort.
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To describe, without rising to the causes, or descending to the consequences, is no more science, than merely and simply to relate a fact of which one has been a witness.
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Born:
September 28, 1807
Died:
February 8, 1884
(aged 76)
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Arnold Henry Guyot was a Swiss-American geologist and geographer.
Known for:
Physical Geography (1873)
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