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"Learning alters us, it does what all nourishment does that does not merely 'conserve'--as the physiologist knows. But at the bottom of our souls, quite 'down below,' there is certainly something unteachable, a granite of spiritual fate, of predetermined decision and answer to predetermined, chosen questions."
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