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Jones Very is gone into the multitude as solitary as Jesus. In dis

Jones Very is gone into the multitude as solitary as Jesus. In dismissing him, I seem to have discharged an arrow into the heart of Society. Wherever that young enthusiast goes, he will astonish and disconcert men by dividing for them the cloud that covers the gulf in man. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

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