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Author ···
······ Edgar Allan Poe
Medium ········· Print
Published ······ July 1845![]()
Language ······· English
······ Edgar Allan Poe
Medium ········· Print
Published ······ July 1845

Language ······· English
Alpine Thistle®
In the consideration of the faculties and impulses — of the prima mobilia of the
human soul, the
phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which,
although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has
been equally overlooked by all the moralists who have preceded them.

In the pure arrogance of the reason, we have all overlooked it. We have suffered its existence to escape our senses, solely through want of belief — of faith — whether it be faith in Revelation, or faith in the Kabbala.