Wednesday, September 25, 2024
External Soul
Arthur Stanley Pease (1881-1964), Sequestered Vales of Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946), p. 5:
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From active life as a manufacturer he had retired to a good-sized white house close by the sidewalk as it passed over a knoll shaded by a magnificent and enormous elm tree. When the town fathers widened the street, cut some of the large roots of this tree, and thus led to its death, grandfather's regret was something from which I think he never quite recovered. It seemed almost as if the tree had been the residence of what the anthropologists call his "external soul."
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