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majestic processioUj which has been marching through 

 an unknown series of ages. At the head of this pro- 

 cession we ourselves stand, heirs of all the progress of 

 the past and moving forward into the future wherein 

 progress towards something higher and nobler must still 

 be for us, as it has been for all creation, the guiding 

 law." 



