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...illustration : You have all heard of the process of tunnelling, of tunnelling through a sand-bank. In this operation it is impossible to succeed unless...excavation are not dependent on the word in the one case, nor on the mason-work in the other ; but without these subsidiaries neither process could be carried...

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...what we have already overrun in thought." And, again, alluding to tunneling through a sand-bank: — "Now, language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel." MACAULAY with his unexampled power of illustration declares that " the highest intellects, like the...

...what we have already overrun in thought." And, again, alluding to tunneling through a sand-bank: — "Now, language is to the mind precisely what the arch is to the tunnel." MACAULAY with his unexampled power of illustration declares that "the highest intellects, like the...

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