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of domination, cannot bear to make this avowal of inferiority. Hence it 
is that the proud is ashamed to confess that he has received a benefit; he 
hides it as much as he can; he is annoyed when it is recalled to him. Hence 
it is that nothing is so quickly forgotten as a benefit, and that the number 
of the ungrateful is infinite. 
In order to dispense themselves from gratitude, they try to imagine 
interested motives on the part of their benefactor; they search out in him 
for faults to be censured, wrongs to be reprehended ; and if they can render 
him the slightest service, they make use of it in order to free themselves 
from the debt of gratitude. “I have rendered all bach to him ” they say. 
Evil words are these! The good man never forgets the benefit he has re¬ 
ceived even when he has rendered one as good in return, or even when he 
has had the happiness to do still more. 
Seneca, therefore, is right when he says: 
“Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even 
while receiving it.” 
“To a generous mind 
The heaviest debt is that of gratitude, 
When his not in our power to repay it.” 
— Franklin. 
And Dry den says, 
“I grow impatient, till I find some way 
Great offices with greater to repay.” 
©artauncle. 
A beautiful gem, of a deep-red color, with a mixture of scarlet, called 
by the Greeks anthrax (*Av0pa£ ), found in the East Indies. It is usually 
found pure, of an angular figure, and adhering to a heavy, ferruginous 
