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184 drifted something into that little dusty bookstore.

Every great event in the history of the earth has contributed a something to those dusty shelves.

All nations and tongues are represented there; all the philosophers have riches there; and there all the poets have preserved their word-music.

As for the antiquarian, he thinketh much of these things; for he knoweth by heart the story of each book, and now rarely openeth any save new ones — works of this age of ours.

Then he saith —

"Pshaw! They call that new, and I have beheld the same in books that were written lo! three thousand years ago!

"The founders of the Semitic and Aryan religions knew these things; and forsooth these modern fools offer them to us as something novel!