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"I, Epictetus, was a slave; and sick in body, and wretched in poverty; and beloved by the gods." "Zosima, who while she lived was a slave only in her body, has now found deliverance for that also." How might we, over many an "independent" Englishman, reverse this last legend, and write "This man, who while he lived was free only in his body, has now found captivity for that also."
Will you allow me, on this general question of liberty and slavery, to refer your correspondents to a paper of mine touching closely upon it, the leader in the Art-Journal for July last? and to ask them also to meditate a little over the two beautiful epitaphs on Epictetus and Zosima, quoted in the last paper of the Idler?