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Excerpt from The Illuminated Magazine, Vol. 2: November to April, 1844 Yes; I shall remain some time in Hungary, answered the Hermit, si ping the liquor with educated lips. This, sai the Sage, holding the Wine between him and the light, this is the true blood of our dear mother earth. I have often wondered at the sneaking ingratitude of astro nomical men. In the name of grapes, why should not Bacchus have a star to himself? We have only to reflect upon the characters of the Pagan deities siderally honoured, to feel the indignity done to Bacchus. There is Saturn, a tyrant and a child-eater, - he must be set in a ring, and no minally hung in the sky. Mars, a bully, and nine times out of ten no whit better than a highway man or burglar, - he, too, must twinkle insultingly upon men, made fools and rogues, tyrants and victims, by his abominable influence; yes, he, the recruiting serjeant of the heavens - must stare with his red face upon us - and Mercury, thief and orator to boot, may wink through the long night, all having their admirers and wor shippers; whilst for Bacchus, he, with all his great bounty, is starless and unhonoured. Twould be a pleasant, yea a proper thing, said the Hermit with a laugh, to find a fire new planet for him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.