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"text": "1852: Neither of them possessed that gift, which Schelling endeavoured to express by the term Eseinsbildung [sic; read ineinsbildung], and Coleridge by the term esemplasy—the power, that is, of infusing into the various parts of a subject an ever-present unity. — Fraser's Magazine vol. 46 65"
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