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[40] the revolving worlds keep their places. The sun is their necessity, centrifugal force their strong freewill. And those two opposing ideas, which regulate the motion of the stars, are constantly taking form in the most trivial actions of my daily life. By my soul, though free — will has a hard battle in these latter times, necessity presses like a patent screw.

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