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 mazes of these labyrinthine, spectre-haunted books, is commended,—'is a vision of nature, a prophecy of the gathering of the harvest of Time, and treading the winepress of war; in which harvest and vintage-work all living things have 'their share for good or evil':—

All kinds of insects, of roots and seed and creeping things—all the armies of disease visible or invisible are there:—

Wasp and hornet, toad and newt, spider and snake,—

Tortured for the cruel joy and deadly sport of Luvah's sons and daughters;