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Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
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Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.
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John Jay Chapman
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Born:
March 2, 1862
Died:
November 4, 1933
(aged 71)
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John Jay Chapman was an American author.
Known for:
Emerson and Other Essays (1898)
Unbought spirit
Greek genius, and other essays (1915)
William Lloyd Garrison (1913)
Lucian, Plato and Greek morals (1931)
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