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taught them, and such as they have learnt from 

 their grandmothers. In their wrath ''they would, if 

 perchance they could lay their hands upon them, 

 verily put them to death ; " for their first impulse is 

 still to stone the prophets, whose spirit their boot- 

 less reverence will afterwards oppress beneath the 

 burden of memorial sepulchres. Who then will 

 take it upon him to blame a philosopher if he wraps 

 his mantle closely around his face ? 



