Excerpt from The Bizarre Notes and Queries in History, Folk-Lore, Mathematics, Mysticism, Art, Science, Etc, Vol. 3: January, 1886
All these subjects are left for maturer years, probably to develop the brain, and to query over. Many words become petrified, and after a period of years are unearthed and again brought in to common par lance, sometimes with a modified signification.
A writer of some four-score years ago thus propounds his questions.
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