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application but lead also to essentially different
In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for this work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead also to essentially different conclusions.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

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