it is both consoling and disconcerting to read one's recent thoughts and insights already first written in the 1870s and 1880s, as I did today while sitting in a Starbucks in Moscow reading in yesterday's- received The Spiritual Crisis of the Gilded Age.
eg. 1874, James DeKoven, Anglican priest (!): "More people, in this western land, are lead away from God by a sort of every-day materialism than by scientific doubt." and, in 1878: "The visible encroaches on the invisible...". (p 14, 16)
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