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"," said I to myself, as Brown and I descended his door-steps, "you are wrong there at any rate—decidedly wrong, even with all your high ter-cross attainments. We inferior mortals of earth long regarded the ter-cross as exclusively Divine Power; and now that this power has been humanly reached by you Upper Solars, it is the quarto-cross that has become Divine, and so on! But neither the quarto nor the quinto, no, nor yet the dekka, nor even the cento-cross, may prove beyond human attainment. Our duty and privilege are to keep marching unceasingly onward, ever labouring to add to our knowledge; even if ever to find ahead a constantly enlarging field for our further journey."

Wholly absorbed by high thoughts of this kind, I had gone on a considerable distance without once thinking of Brown. But at last the regular patter of