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THEIR LIKENESS AND MEANING.
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glorious deaths, and leave great names for men to wonder at: heroes such as Odysseus, and Theseus, and Phœbus, and Achilles, and Sigurd, and Arthur, and all of whom represent, in one form or another, the great mystery of Nature, and the conflict of light and darkness; and so, if we look to their deeper meaning, the constant triumph of good over evil, and of right over wrong.
