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Knowledge, the daughter of Jupiter, descended from the skies to visit man. She found
him naked and helpless, living on the spontaneous fruits of the earth, and little
superior to ox that grazed beside him. She clothed and fed him; she built him
palaces; she showed him the hidden riches of the earth, and pointed with her finger
the course of the stars as they rose and set in the horizon. Man became rich with
her gifts, and accomplished from her conversation. In process of time Knowledge
became acquainted with the schools of the philosophers; and being much taken with
their theories and their conversation, she married one of them. They had many
beautiful and healthy children; but among the rest was a daughter of a different
complexion from all the rest, whose name was Doubt. She grew up under many
disadvantages; she had a great hesitation in her speech; a cast in her eye, which,
however, was keen and piercing; and was subject to nervous tremblings. Her mother
saw her with