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" They know from the knight and from you alike: you 

 " lived on the fat of the land, not inherited, not pre- 

 " sented with it, not conquered on just principals: no, 

 " sir, entrusted with, and usurped; appropriated against 

 11 the unwritten laws of decency; maintained and aug- 

 " merited through sheer force and low theft. Like the 

 " uncovered treasure of iron and bronze coin of that 

 " knight of the road, thus will your treasure have out- 

 11 lived the date of circulation and usefulness." 



It laid with him entirely to bless us with a book to 

 set right all the disputes warming up the multitude of 

 expecting hearers. He fought not to accomplish it, but 

 his contempt has never penetrated further than to those 

 admitted to the bar of inquisition and torture. Who 

 was it that strangled the reputations of every one of 

 those collectors which were swarming over tropical lands 

 and ruining their constitutions for the sake of science, 

 as they thought for the sake of the devil, as they had 

 to sadly experience? If they gainsay what I preach and 

 maintain, poor fellows! they do not know the strings 

 that played the manikins. What have you, what has the 

 world heard about a Riernann, about a Foerstermann, 

 about a Bartholomaeus, about an Arnold, about a Ker- 

 bach, about a Micholitz, about a Schroeder, about a 

 Koebelen, about a Hennings, who have been sacrificed 

 to fill the coffers of squandering extravagance? to pay 

 the whims of idiotic trickery and tricky idiotcy? If 

 your bones bleach in the sun, and not a stone has been 

 rolled over the shallow graves of some of you martyrs, 

 I, for one, will turn the glare of a torch, the brightest 

 torch aflame, the torch of truth upon your white bones. 

 Fools you were, gardeners of course, picked to suit the 

 scheming ways of your master. If you suffered, no- 

 body will be any the wiser for it. You have been for- 



