To die for the truth--is not to die for one's country, but to die for
the world. Truth, like the _Venus del Medici_, will pass down in thirty
fragments to posterity: but posterity will collect and recompose them
into a goddess. Then also thy temple, O eternal Truth! that now stands
half below the earth--made hollow by the sepulchres of its witnesses,
will raise itself in the total majesty of its proportions; and will
stand in monumental granite; and every pillar on which it rests will be
fixed in the grave of a martyr.