The human race has been a long time without a complete and intelligent explanation of itself. It has been content to accept the explanations of its untrained and ignorant imagination. This has resulted in a vast and grotesque misconception of itself and its Creator.
— Mark Twain Modern

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, humorist

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From 'Letters from the Earth'.

Date / Period

c. 1909 (written), 1962 (published posthumously)

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Strange & Unusual

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Found in 1 providers: gemini

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