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The sympathy and concurrence of his time is, with his own mind, joint parent of his work.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “The sympathy and concurrence of his time is, with his own mind, joint parent of his work.”
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Hoar asserts that the collective sentiment of the time and the speaker's own thoughts co-create the speaker's work.
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