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I asked in my first lecture, 'What would become of the forest children, unless some kind saint or hermit took pity on them?'
I used the words saint and hermit with a special purpose. It was by the influence, actual or imaginary, of such, that the Teutons, after the destruction of the Roman empire, were saved from becoming hordes of savages, destroying each other by continual warfare.