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But Master Shakspere was deep in the proofs of a newly published play, and did not hear. The yellow ribbon fluttered in the sun was gone behind the churchyard wall. "Quick, Master Shakspere! quick!" Nick cried; but the master-writer frowned at the inky page; for the light in the printer's shop was dim, and the proof was very bad.
It opens with the admission that the orthodox view is the most simple and apparently convincing, has had for centuries the unhesitating assent of an immense majority of thinkers, and that the latest master-writer upon the subject disposed to reject it, namely, Mill, comes to the conclusion that, "in the present state of our knowledge, the adaptations in Nature afford a large balance of probability in favor of creation by intelligence."
Voltaire's renown and monetary rewards, as the master-writer of the eighteenth century, offer the only case in modern times that approaches Scott's success; yet Voltaire's vast wealth was largely the result of successful speculation.
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