He knows, says Hebraism, his Biblewhenever we hear this said, we may, without any elaborate defense of culture, content ourselves with answering simply No man, who knows nothing else, knows even his Bible.
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Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall, Find thy body by the wall.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethes sage mind and Byrons force But where will Europes latter hour Again find Wordsworths healing power.
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