Word: sacrae
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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This man is held up to us as one influenced to a remarkable extent by the famoe sacra fames. Notoriety he thirsted for, and notoriety he certainly gained. Without doubt, he is the shining example of that trait so graphically expressed in the vulgate by the term "cutting a dash." But was he alone in this? Is it not possible that there is something of the same tendency in ourselves? Of course I do not claim that it is developed in any of us to the same degree it was in that representative man, for the very good reason that...