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ERIC BLOOD- AXE AND BROTHERS. EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY.

Chaos a little nearer to the form of Cosmos; possessed, in fact, of loyalties to Cosmos, that is to say, of authentic virtues in the savage state, such as have been needed in all societies at their incipience in this world; a kind of 'virtues' hugely in discredit at present, hut not unlikely to he needed again, to the astonishment of careless persons, before all is done!