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and part of the hull. But lack of money or of efficient machinery prevented the completion of the task, and the fair ship remained for centuries beneath the waters.
Just so Alberti has made known some portions of his soul, and it is for us to plumb the depths to discover all that he did not reveal. Instead of gathering laboriously the data of his external life, we may well reconstruct in ourselves his inner experience. So only can the dead be our masters; so only can the great lead us to still greater heights.
