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Excerpt from National Worthies: Being a Selection From the National Portrait Gallery A copy in water colours by Julia J. G. Lady Abercromby, after the original portrait by Professor H. Von Angeli, taken in 1875. 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 t...

Excerpt from The National Portrait Gallery The immediate rendering of the allegory is that Arthur is the higher and more spiritual part of man - that the knights of the Table Round are the faculties which yield willing subjection to a pure conscience - that the uncultivated waste ravaged by the beast and overrun with wrong is that against which it is a man's duty in this world to fight, and is partly within and partly without, as all men find...