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- What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?
- Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations:
- her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary
- reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her
- appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariablility of her aspect:
- her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over
- effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest
- with beauty, to render insane, to incite and aid delinquency: the tranquil
- inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant
- implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the
- stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of
- her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her
- attraction, when invisible.
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