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Did we not say of him just now, that he loved truth and hated

falsehood, and that he could not rest in the multiplicity of

phenomena, but was led by a sympathy in his own nature to the

contemplation of the absolute? All the virtues as well as truth,

who is the leader of them, took up their abode in his soul. But

as you were observing, if we turn aside to view the reality, we

see that the persons who were thus described, with the exception

of a small and useless class, are utter rogues.