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ESSAYS AND LEITERS .

behind, and his only guide can and must be the unattainable stars, and the compass showing a direction.

And the one and the other are given us.

[September 26, o.s., 1890.]

The above is a new translation, in preparing which I have been allowed to make free use of one that appeared in the New Age in 1897.