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Helvetius, Claude Andre. A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, translated by W. Hooper. Vol. 2, University of Michigan Press, 2009, ch. 19.

Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 27.

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 6.

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 12.

Keats, John. "Letter to Fanny Brawne, October 13, 1819." The Selected Letters of John Keats, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Keats, John. "Benjamin Bailey 22 November 1817." John Keats: Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Keynes, John Maynard. "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930)." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016.

Wilmot, John. "A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country." The Complete Works of John Wilmot. Penguin Classics, 1994.