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small fraction of a brain, to
know that it had verily
thought deep beyond his sound
ings, a just law, that the soul
of it was good, that his fate
in it was to conform to the law
of the whole and in devout silence
follow that not questioning it
obeying it as unquestionable.
Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting. How this was measured.