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or less careful analysis from time to time last winter and summer, when busy with the weeding and comparing.  For, then, more than ever before, I had to consider the chronology of things already possessed.  Formerly, and correctly, my question had been what were the aesthetic qualities of things already bought or under consideration for purchase, of course always having in mind the very important consideration of harmony.  Well, the thought so often given attention ^[[was]] should not articles of beauty and sympathy of earlier or earliest origin, especially in glazed stone or pottery, be, if possible, added to my collection.  I concluded it was important that they should & continued my buying of every fine specimen of [[strikethrough]] Raccia[[/strikethrough]] "Racca" or Babylonian glazed ware that proved obtainable.  Then came 

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Interesting notes on philosophy on collecting