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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

CHAPTER LVII
19/19

This, then, is the result of your hours of seclusion." "Philosopher! I am astounded at your effrontery.

I detected your philosophy the very first maxim.

Who posted that parchment for you ?" So, each charged the other with its authorship: and there was no finding out, whether, indeed, either knew aught of its origin.
Now, could it have been Babbalanja?
Hardly.

For, philosophic as the document was, it seemed too dogmatic and conservative for him.

King Media?
But though imperially absolute in his political sentiments, Media delivered not himself so boldly, when actually beholding the eruption in Franko.
Indeed, the settlement of this question must be left to the commentators on Mardi, some four or five hundred centuries hence..


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