FOOTNOTE:

[A] I wrote this sentence long ago. This sadness now seems to me a part

of all peoples who preserve the moods of the ancient peoples of the

world. I am not so pre-occupied with the mystery of Race as I used to

be, but leave this sentence and other sentences like it unchanged. We

once believed them, and have, it may be, not grown wiser.

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