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or two of years. That it has gathered now is a good augury for the 

 future; and that it has gathered here is a lasting benefit for us who 

 are native to this region. 



The tale is told that after the statues from the studio of Thorwald- 

 sen had been unpacked in Copenhagen in the courtyard of the mu- 

 seum, there sprang up the next spring certain flowers of the Roman 

 Campagna, never before seen in Denmark, and a few of them were 

 acclimated and have flourished ever since in their new home in the 

 north. Is it too much to hope that a like good fortune may befall 

 some of the seeds of thought which have been brought here from 

 afar? 



