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schools of thought, but a seeing of Joachims 

 as the Virgin's grandmothers on a larger scale ? 

 True, we cannot call figures Joachim when we 

 know perfectly well that they are nothing of 

 the kind ; but I registered a vow that hence- 

 forward when I called Joachims the Virgin's 

 grandmothers I would bear more in mind 

 than I have perhaps always hitherto done, 

 how hard it is for those who have been taught 

 to see them as Joachims to think of them as 

 something different. I trust that I have not 

 been unfaithful to this vow in the preceding 

 article. If the reader differs from me, let me 

 ask him to remember how hard it is for one 

 who has got a figure well into his head as the 

 Virgin's grandmother to see it as Joachim. 



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