Note 29 — Chapter XXI · FREETHOUGHT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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“Extraordinary self-complacency,” “autocratic action,” “arrogance,” are among the expressions used of him by his ablest biographer. (Podmore, ii, 641.) Of him might be said, as of Emerson by himself, “the children of the Gods do not argue”—the faculty being absent. ↑