Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represen… - Edwin Percy Whipple

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Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 – June 16, 1886) was a literary critic and essayist from Massachusetts.

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