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“You must cultivate either your own reason or else externals; apply yourself either to things within or without you—that is, be either a philosopher or one of the mob.
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From Section XXIX (Higginson translation) of The Enchiridion. Read the surrounding argument as well as the excerpt; its historical language and philosophical assumptions shape its meaning.
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Source: The Enchiridion , Section XXIX (Higginson translation)
Edition: Thomas Wentworth Higginson translation · Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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