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I doubt me if they did.

The youth of Australia dont think in depths.

Life is too bright and gay of it pleasures for that. It is better so.

But once more of the German I must give thoughts and impressions as they come.

In his field of reason material knowledge and cunning has a cloaked and forced aside all that cannot be caught and turned by a pliers, or made clearly visible by a microscope.

All those blooms of fancy which worthy ideals had, in earlier simple ages, planted in the mind have been plucked out of its gardened thought and cast away. Only now remains the material wall, the pale, the shell, enclosing cinder beds, and ashes strewn, where once the dewy beds of spirit plants had been. All now is

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