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Title: Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew;
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Croly, George, 1780-1860
Subjects: Wandering Jew
Publisher: New York, Grosset and Dunlap
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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naments of the balcony, and think what is theworth of human judgment. Who would give the pearl or thediamond, the silver or the gold, for this discolored dross?Yet here is the king of metals—the king of earth; for it cancreate, subdue, and rule all that earth produces of power.Within this dross are treasures hidden, more than earth couldbuy—truth, knowledge, and freedom. It can give the dead anew life and the living a new immortality. It can sink thehaughtiest usurper that ever sioned against man into the low-est scorn. It can raise the humblest son of obscurity intopreeminence, and even without breaking in upon the seclu-sion that he loves, set him forth to every future age crownedwith involuntary glory. It can flash light upon the darkestcomers of the earth—light never to be extinguished. It cancivilize the barbarian; it can pour perpetual increase of hap-piness, strength, and liberty round the civilized. It can makefeet for itseK that walk through the dungeon walls; wings 608
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T3 p B dibinetrers power of Speecb that the uttermost limits of the world can not ■weary; eyes to UbeSupremae?■which the darkest concealments of evU. are naked as the day; °intellect that darts through the universe and solves themightiest secrets of nature and of mind! But in it, too, is afearful power of ruin. He gazed on me with a glance that seemed to shoot fire. Holding the keys of opulence and empire, he continued, it can raise men and nations to the most dazzling height—but it can stain, delude, and madden them until they becomea worse than pestilence to human nature. While he spoke, his form assumed a grandeur commensuratewith his lofty topics; the power of his voice awoke with theawaking power of his mind. My faculties succumbed underhis presence, and I could only exclaim: More of those wonders; give me more of those noble evi-dences of the supremacy of man! Man! said my strange enlightener; look upon him ashe is, and what more helpless thing moves under the canopyof he

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