BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY
HÉLOÏSE.
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A.D. 1101-1164.
LOVE.
When Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, they yet found one flower, wherever they wandered, blooming in perpetual beauty. This flower represents a great certitude, without which few would be happy,—subtile, mysterious, inexplicable,—a great boon recognized alike by poets and moralists, Pagan and Christian; yea, identified not only with happiness,...
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