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consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. It is hard to understand how Ralph Waldo Emerson, as reasonable and consistent as anyone and certainly no little mind, could have written this until you look at what he really wrote in his essay “Self-Reliance” (1841). There is quite a difference in the qualifi- cation he makes: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” |