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“struggled incessantly to educe organic method out of lazily fermenting wreck”

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present, Book II, ch. X (Government) (Project Gutenberg #26159)

Carlyle summarises Abbot Samson's labour of reforming the abbey.

Citation: "struggled incessantly to educe organic method out of lazily fermenting wreck" — Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book II, ch. X (Government) (Project Gutenberg #26159). (id past-and-present-q8)

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