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structive, or uplifting to impart for the last- 

 ing benefit of him and of his race, with the 

 hiss, the groan, the loud uproar, of the ignor- 

 ant barbarian ; and who in his lamentable 

 shortsightedness casts back the beautiful, na- 

 ked, mind culturing Truth into the depths of 

 her obscuring well — just as the stern, fanatic, 

 recluse saint thrust the lovely maiden who 

 sought his unresponding love, from the awe- 

 ful precipices of his mountain home lest her 

 too seducing charms should wean him from 

 the austerities, the veneration and the domin- 

 ion of God and the Church. 



Well it is for us that Truth is more than 

 mortal ; unlike the poor, feeble giii of the sor- 

 rowful legend. Dazzling, pure and fearless, 

 she emerges again, again, and ever, from the 

 depths of crystal clearness as might a twin- 

 goddess — a Minerva-Venus — from her natal 

 "wave, each time fairer, stronger and more pre- 

 vailing ; refreshed e'en as the o'erthrown An- 

 teus when, re-invigorated, he upsprang from 

 the bosom of his Mother Earth. Aye, and it 

 is fit that this should be so, for only such in- 

 cessant, such dauntless, such thought compel- 

 ling persistence can eventually command the 

 admiration, captivate the mind and impreg- 



