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skill of that truly wonderful man, Michael Angelo. 

 Though one of the most ugly men of his time, yet proba- 

 bly no man of his day had a more beautiful spirit, and 

 no man whom this world has ever known possessed a 

 more remarkable and varied genius poet, sculptor, 



A CHAMBER IN THE ROMAN CATACOMBS. 



painter, civil engineer and architect, all in one. How 

 one man could design all that is attributed to his 

 inventive genius is more than any ordinary mortal 

 can conceive, to say nothing of the time expended in 



