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Word: noir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1876-1876
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...valueless; and whenever I breathe the names of the philosophers I have been so laboriously mastering (?) for the last three years, whether it is Noah Porter or Descartes, whether among my friends or in the "causeries de has bleus" which I attend, I am immediately confronted with the bete noir of Herbert Spencer. Like Banquo's ghost it will not down, but still provokes me with its taunting mystery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE UNIVERSITY NEEDS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

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