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| | Works of Lucian, Vol. IV: Slander, a Warning |
 | | We are all walkers in darkness--or say, our experience is that of blind men, knocking helplessly against the real, and stepping high to clear the imaginary, failing to see what is close at their feet, and in terror of being hurt by something that is leagues away. |
 | | This it is that has found the tragic poets a thousand themes, Labdacids, Pelopids, and all their kind. |
 | | Inquiry would show that most of the calamities put upon the boards are arranged by ignorance as by some supernatural stage-manager. |
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