Henri Frederic Amiel - Society lives by faith, and develops by scie

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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Amiel, Henri-Frédéric. Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel. Translated by Mary A. Ward, Macmillan and Co., 1885.

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