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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’

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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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