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Peter's, and the quire of that other grand archi- 

 tectural creation, the Domkirche, the Cathedral 

 of Cologne. I will not compare the ceremonies, 

 nor need I pass any opinion respecting them ; 

 but this I will say, that I could not but see 

 belonging to each a devotional feeling in 

 common, separating as it were, stages of exist- 

 ence ; carrying the mind with its aspirations 

 from the present to the future, and breathing 

 the nott omnis moriar ; in brief, affording in the 

 religious feeling expressed one of the strongest 

 marks of humanity, and of the difference 

 between man and the brute that perishes. 



AMICUS. How well for mankind had it been, 

 had such a liberality as yours been more 

 common, especially in past ages ; then history 

 would not have had such dark and terrible 

 pages detailing the persecutions of the strong 

 over the weak, on account of difference of re- 

 ligious persuasion. 



PISCATOR. Truly so; nor so many glorious 

 pages recording heroic firmness, the enduring 

 strength of faith, the conquering and trium- 

 phant mind. 



AMICUS. The heroism of the martyr in the 

 history of our kind compensates, shall I say, for 



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