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Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1 quotation from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence: or shall we say it is itself a thought, nothing but thought, and no longer the substance which we dreamed it.— filed under Electricity