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"It seemed as if science and thought had perished for all eternity, and that the earth would never again know peace, joy, and beauty.
"But one day, under the walls of Rome, some workmen, excavating the earth on the borders of an ancient road, found a marble sarcophagus which bore carved on its sides simulacra of Love and the triumphs of Bacchus.