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by that understanding if ever he shall attain immortality. As for our Oracles, though their aim appears to me to be shockingly wicked (did they know it,) I am not given to wasting thought on intractable fools, yet this variety swarms so that when the first day of the month happens to fall upon a Sunday, I do not omit (if I am in church) to render thanks for this singular feature of the world. For at any rate, they are decidedly "amusing little cusses," and perhaps they occasionally spur on an intellect of heroic cast, to attack a problem that has been pronounced invincible.