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The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

Note 27 — XIX. INCREASED POSSIBILITIES OF SYMPATHY IN THE PRESENT AGE.

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'The diaulos of the journey.' We recommend to the amateur in words this Greek phrase, which expresses by one word an egress linked with its corresponding regress, which indicates at once the voyage outwards and the voyage inwards, as the briefest of expressions for what is technically called 'course of post,' i.e., the reciprocation of post, its systole and diastole.

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