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Symbolic sight

By Scott Granneman / 29 October 2005 / commonplace book / clever, maxim, the_new_yorker

From "The Habit of Democracy" by Adam Gopnik in the 15 October 2001 issue of The New Yorker, a review of two books about Alexis de Tocqueville:

Newcomers, like newborns, have symbolic sight. They see faces first, and features later. 

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