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My Reviewers’ Sense of Need

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler · Samuel Butler

My reviewers felt no sense of need to understand me—if they had they would have developed the mental organism which would have enabled them to do so.  When the time comes that they want to do so they will throw out a little mental pseudopodium without much difficulty.  They threw it out when they wanted to misunderstand me—with a good deal of the pseudo in it, too.

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