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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: assume a certain consistency in order that the friends of truth might be afforded an opportunity of enlightening public opinion upon a man, whose name had become a rallying cry for the enemies of religion, who thought he was making profession of philosophy in declaring war to the death against a religion whose dogmas contain the sublimest of all philosophies, and which, by its maxims and its institutions, has borne humanity to moral heights unknown to ancient civilization. R. F. O'COxxoR. (To be continued.) THE COMBAT OF PERSEUS WITH THE GORGON By T. C. Irwin. The thunder of departing gods still rolled through distant night, And in the palace Perseus stood alone. To aid his flight Mercurial plumes like rainbows glimmered, and serene and bright Minerva's glassy shield; there, too, lay Pluto's helmet dim, And awesome as some thunder-cloud descried on ocean's rim, Portentous and remote beneath the stormy stars?all these Gifts to the hero, adventure-bound, by the favouring Deities. 'Twas midnight; nor did other light, save of a torch, intrude On those celestial 'mid that stony chamber's solitude, As thus with wings, shield, sword, accoutred stood he; but when the helm Was donned, no more could mortal eyes behold him in the realm; The adventures of Perseus, son of Jupiter and Danae, form one of the most interesting subjects to be found in the earlier heroic period of Greek mythology. Folydectes, who was King of Seriphus, one of the Cyclades, where Danae and her son had been shipwrecked, wishing to seize the former, yet dreading the vengeance ot the young hero, gave a banquet to which she was invited, and from which all male guests were excluded who did not present the monarch with a horse. Perseus, who had none to offer, told the king that instead he would present h...