Page:The spirit of place, and other essays, Meynell, 1899.djvu/114

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HABITS AND CONSCIOUSNESS.

Dr. Johnson was "absent." No man of "absent" mind is without some hourly deliverance. It is on the present mind that presses the burden of the present world.