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 taught them, and such as they have learnt from their grandmothers. In their wrath “they would, if perchance they could lay their hands upon them, verily put them to death;” for their first impulse is still to stone the prophets, whose spirit their bootless reverence will afterwards oppress beneath the burden of memorial sepulchres. Who then will take it upon him to blame a philosopher if he wraps his mantle closely around his face?