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4771. LITERATURE, Growth of.—
Literature
is not yet a distinct profession with us.
Now and then a strong mind arises, and at its
intervals of leisure from business, emits a flash
of light. But the first object of young societies
is bread and covering; science is but secondary
and subsequent.—
To J. Evelyn Denison. Washington ed. vii, 418.
(M.
1825)
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