Statistics for occurrence #1 of “United States” in chapter 25, page 383 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises:
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This may be only a swing of the pendulum; but its temporary influence has nowhere been better defined or characterized than by the late Clarence King, formerly director of the United States Geological Survey, who wrote thus a little before his death: With all its novel modern powers and practical sense, I am forced to admit that the purely scientific brain is miserably
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