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As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. author. Eureka, George P. Putnam (1848).

Sealing the universe from noxious influences.

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