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Gogga Brown 



in doubt, wooed him with words of chivalry, and 

 he talked of new fields to conquer and high 

 adventure in the quest for some unholy Grail 

 and hidden caskets. 



But Brown had made his firm resolve, which 

 specious pleadings could not move. How could he 

 pay fealty to one and not the other, when he had 

 sworn a twin-allegiance to both their emblems, 

 when he had promised secretly to each Cause to 

 be true ? So clashed the haughty baron of Religion 

 and the irate lord of Science in deadly combat, 

 Imposture versus the Devil incarnate, so they 

 viewed the bout, and they fell, transfixed by 

 their sharp lances in tragic stalemate, biting the 

 dust in their high dudgeon ! 



When the tumult ended and the pall of peace 

 was spread, Brown meditated on his vision ; with 

 his humble spirit and discerning mind he saw 

 that this was how the mills of human turmoil 

 grind their grain and separate the substance from 

 the shadow that is vanity. So he rose up, and, 

 like the good Voortrekker he was, hitched his 

 own waggon to the double star of Faith and 

 Fortitude, which led him through the narrow 

 rugged pass between the mountains out into the 

 broad prospects of his Promised Land. 



