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The room was lighted by a carbuncle, which, from the end of the hall, poured its ever-living light, brighter than the rays of noontide, but cooler than the gentle radiance of the dewy moon. This was a sore trial to the Rabbi; but he was strengthened from above, and he refused again. "Thou knowest me, then, I perceive, O Jochonan, son of Ben-David," said the Prince of the Mazikin.
To the credit of the Jewish financiers be it said that they were always the banner bearers of enlightenment. It had been so with German Aufklärung, when Ben-David, Itzig, Friedländer, and Jacobson, laid the corner-stone of the intellectual rebirth of their people. It was more especially so in Russia during the "sixties."
But if the stream be too deep and wide, and the lilies are anchored far out among their broad pads, a floral Venice, with the blue spikes and arrowy leaves of the pickerel-weed for campaniles and towers, there are yet "lilies of the field" over which you may profitably meditate, remembering that Solomon Ben-David was not so arrayed.
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