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had lost. After a while the priesthood, whicli has usually, in 

 all ages and countries, proclaimed itself the depository of a 

 knowledge and a civilization lost to the mass of the people, may 





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have sjained courac^e to imitate these old works of art, with 

 proper improvements for the worse, and have persuaded th.e 

 people that the new idols would do as well as the old ones. 

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