By Richard Mather
My external sensations are no less private to myself
Than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case
My experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed
On the outside; and, with all its elements alike, every sphere
Is opaque to the others which surround it. . . . In brief,
Regarded as an existence which appears in a soul, the whole world
For each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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