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ously with strong and compact ignorance, before.Grand those visions—arranging, harmonizing,elevating those truths which will reach us whenmists now dimming our eyes are cleared away—obscurations which will not always lie over ourown world, and which, it is humbly and reverentlyhoped, will at least be partially withdrawn fromall minds desirous of knowledge and of good,when they pass that mysterious crisis of beingwhich removes them from participation in theexisting and visible course of affairs.

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