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if we could find characters or signs appropriate for expressing all our thoughts

Precursor to De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater as axiomatic Euclidean geometry.

[1]:https://archive.org/details/confessionsofeng01dequ/page/n2/m...

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