Descartes Site

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“All that is very clearly and distinctly conceived is true.”
—René Descartes (1596–1650)

“That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is. When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)