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ON THE DEVIL, AND DEVILS.

upon its tail; a mode of progression which, if I was a Serpent, I should think the severer punishment of the two.[1] The Christians have turned this Serpent into their Devil, and accommodated the whole story to their new scheme of sin and propitiation.

  1. ↑ See note on Shelley's letter to Byron of the 13th of December 1821, given in Vol. IV of this edition.
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