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“The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?”

Quote by Judith Ellen Foster

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Judith Ellen Foster
Judith Ellen Foster

Judith Ellen Foster, a mysterious figure from the 19th century, whose life and achievements remain largely unknown. Born in 1840 and died in 1910. more

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