. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. ecutioner lifted the severed head, to showit to the people. It is most true, says Forster, that hestruck the cheek insultingly; for I saw it with my eyes: thePolice imprivSoned him for it. In this manner have the Beautifulest and the Squalidestcome in collision, and extinguished one another. Jean-PaulMarat and Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday both, suddenly, areno more. * Day of the Preparation of Peace ? Alas, howwere peace possible or preparable, while, for example, thehearts of lovely Maidens, in their convent-s
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. ecutioner lifted the severed head, to showit to the people. It is most true, says Forster, that hestruck the cheek insultingly; for I saw it with my eyes: thePolice imprivSoned him for it. In this manner have the Beautifulest and the Squalidestcome in collision, and extinguished one another. Jean-PaulMarat and Marie-Anne Charlotte Corday both, suddenly, areno more. * Day of the Preparation of Peace ? Alas, howwere peace possible or preparable, while, for example, thehearts of lovely Maidens, in their convent-stillness, are dream-ing not of Love-paradises and the light of Life, but of Codrus-sacrifices and Death well-earned ? That twenty-five millionhearts have got to such temper, this is the Anarchy; the soulof it lies in this: whereof not peace can be the embodiment!The death of Marat, whetting old animosities tenfold, will beworse than any life. O ye hapless Two, mutually extinctive,the Beautiful and the Squalid, sleep ye well,—in the Mothersbosom that bore you both.—T.
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