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"ref": "1633, John Donne, The Canonization",
"text": "You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;\nWho did the whole world's soul contract, and drove\nInto the glasses of your eyes",
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"ref": "1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The World-Soul",
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"text": "NINA: The bodies of all living creatures have dropped to dust, and eternal matter has transformed them into stones and water and clouds; but their spirits have flowed together into one, and that great world-soul am I!",
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"ref": "1913, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 1, in The Victorian Age in Literature",
"text": "Like many ungainly or otherwise unattractive Scotchmen, he [Thomas Carlyle] was a seer. By which I do not mean to refer so much to his transcendental rhapsodies about the World-soul or the Nature-garment or the Mysteries and Eternities generally.",
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"ref": "1940 April 29, “Scientist on Immortality”, in Time",
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"ref": "2001 June 3, Marina Warner, “Books: Where Heaven Touches Down”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-19",
"text": "[H]er vision of Sant'Agnese resembles the beautiful Neoplatonist concept of the world soul as a great boat, in which every individual is a member of the crew who rows it through the cosmos for the space of existence, and then merges back into its fabric.",
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