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George Trumbull Ladd - In Korea with Marquis Ito (1908)

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It is without doubt true that all men, of whatever race or degree of civilization, are essentially alike; they constitute what certain authorities in anthropology have fitly called "a spiritual unity." But for the individual who cannot expect to find within himself whatever is necessary to understand and interpret this unity, and especially for the observer who does not care even to detect and recognize the existence of such a unity, the difference between Orient and Occident is a puzzle—perpetually baffling and seemingly insoluble.

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Man when not stimulated by hope or necessity is naturally a lazy animal.

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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George Trumbull Ladd

George Trumbull Ladd
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Born: January 19, 1842
Died: August 8, 1921 (aged 79)
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