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Leisure hours among the gems

by Augustus C. Hamlin

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Excerpt from Leisure Hours Among the GemsThe advice of Rabelais quoted on our titlepage indi cates sound judgment, if not a glimmer of prophetic feeling; but we doubt very much whether the quaint philosopher had any conception of its extent and scope when he gave it. Could the queer, sceptical old fellow return to earth again after his long quiet sleep of almost four centuries, how astonished would he appear at the revelations of the students who have followed his suggestion during the last century even! And yet in reality how little has been revealed to the limited vision of man, compared wit...

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