Humanity and its four visions; with their developments, extracted from the ark of the science of truth for the advancement of the human race towards order and the most pure culture, grand universal drama of civilization, with its intermezzo . ord. Your Holiness seems to me a person verymuch learned in all sciences and you will pardon mefor speaking to you with so much confidence. Letus suppose the fact that I should be a member of someone of the secret societies and I would have taken theoath in it. Now, suppose it would be imposed uponme to attempt at your life. If I were to observe andbe fai
Humanity and its four visions; with their developments, extracted from the ark of the science of truth for the advancement of the human race towards order and the most pure culture, grand universal drama of civilization, with its intermezzo . ord. Your Holiness seems to me a person verymuch learned in all sciences and you will pardon mefor speaking to you with so much confidence. Letus suppose the fact that I should be a member of someone of the secret societies and I would have taken theoath in it. Now, suppose it would be imposed uponme to attempt at your life. If I were to observe andbe faithful to my oath, what would be the conse-quence? Creppo: ^* You would be an assassin, and worseeven, who after having been esteemed by me and re-spected should take away my life. Tassonte: *^And has not perhaps the poor peo-ple loved you like God up to this day? Why do younot break your infamous oath, as I am breaking drawing a poniard he said to him: Here is theinfernal weapon which was destined to take awayyour life, but the Human Oath which I have takenyesterday in the evening saves you. He took the poniard with both hands, and break-ing it in two he threw it on the ground and looking atCreppo in the face, he said to him:. Illustration on Human Movement. 228 INTERMEZZO. **I am not your servant, but your brother, andremember the Human niovement. Having spoken thus he left. Creppo stood like astatue, looking at him going away, after a while hesaid to himself and in an undertone: *^One does not know any more whom to as far as I can understand it the Human Oath isthe only thing that can save the Human Society. Tassonte having arrived outside saw that theHuman demonstration had gone away, stopped awhile and hearing the shouts he commenced to walkin the direction whence they came in order to unitewith the crowd. The Human demonstration was marching on,and Tremio and all those who were singing **TheStrength of the Human Doctrine had deliberated tolead the crowd
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