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preserved, though born amidst the sources of their destruction; 

 and by which a species of immortality is given to generations, 

 floating, as it were, like evanescent bubbles on a stream raised 

 from the deepest caverns of the earth, and instantly losing what 

 may be called its spirit in the atmosphere." 



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