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In a word, it expounded the relation of the whole to its parts, but left unexpounded the relation of the parts to one another. A correlated fault was excessive reverence for rank and rigid exclusiveness of class. There was practically no ladder for the commoner, the farmer, the artisan, and the merchant to ascend into the circle of the samurai.
And all the sweet mysteries of Oriental imagery, the mystic figures which unexpounded give so noble a depth to the perspective of Scripture, were cut to pieces, pulled apart, and explained, as though they were tricks of legerdemain.
In her gentle heart it seemed to her that she had a charge to keep before her God; and she went her way humbly, her thoughts filled with things so vital as the uses of her medicine chest and the unexpounded mysteries of salvation. Now, as she reached the upper landing, she met Betty running to look for her. "O, mamma, may I go to fish with Champe and the new boy and Big Abel?
"I have heard," whispered Wildrake who felt more and more strongly the contagion of superstition "that these words were blasphemously used by Harrison when he shot my poor friend Dick." "What happened next?" said Everard. "See that thou speakest the truth." "As gospel unexpounded by a steeple-man," said the Independent; "yet truly it is but little I have to say.
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