THE PLAIN "ENGLISH" OF IT. 



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that with a not too easy or unobjective listener? 

 Idle and valueless as yet as the unsmelted Ore is 

 the Thought that has not been struck out into the 

 current coin of simplest words. And this once 

 accomplished, who shall say where that currency 

 may lead, or in whose hands it may yet thrive, 

 hereafter ? 



" Incontinently bent on their baptism of native mud." 



