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158 not read the books in a right spirit. Unless the mind is penetrated with transcendentalism, the language of the books cannot be comprehended."

There was no answer to this, for I could not say that my mind was in a transcendental state, as I did not in fact know what that phrase implied and had never yet been able to obtain an explanation of it. So I wished him again good night and went to bed.