Equilibrium System

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    When a person hasn’t in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog’s bark in every sound.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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