Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through Church and State, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time. [Please select]
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The hoof of my horse no longer sinks in light sand or dark alluvion. [Please select]
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The whole party crowded to the spot where Uncas pointed out the impression of a moccasin in the moist alluvion. [Please select]
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A level-topped bank; the water has cut its way down through the soft alluvion of an elevated plain to the limestone rock at the bottom. [Please select]
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