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But in bulk of work, and especially in the faithful, unrepaying service of the hard dry fact, the
The Unity of Civilization Various
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The Scientist and the Believer would as he distinguishes them join issue on the value of the artistic study of man, since man is for both of them the one essential object of knowledge; but the study (artistic or scientific) is, Mr. Browning considers, unrepaying in the one case, while it yields all necessary results in the other.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865
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