Jupiter Columns

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    If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin,
    His armory would quickly be empty.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf.... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then ... be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
    Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)