“I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect we trample are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg (3 January 1811)
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
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