He scroonched down flat on his belly and wiggled right under the fence

It not only binds man to an unalterable, destiny, irrevocably marked out millions of ages before Adam was created, by postulating the immutable foreknowledge of God which knows no disappointment and makes such foreknowledge the same as forordination; but it also chains down the Almighty Jehovah with the fetters of foreknowing every event, and thus giving him a certain amount of knowledge, which he can neither add to nor diminish from: in fact, it binds all his other attributes to the same point of unchangeable necessity; and thus we have the Father of spirits deprived of volition, and every thing like freedom of thought and action, hand-cuffed perfectly by this overruling system of superAlmighty fatalism!

The desired symmetry was only achieved by formatizing great masterpieces; and this was why Christian von Mechel had to remove additions to pictures and remedy losses when the Hapsburg paintings were moved from the Stallburg to the new museum in the Belvedere Palace.

Here in seclusion, as a widow may, / The lovely lady whiled the hours away, / Pacing in sable robes the statued hall, / Herself the stateliest statue among all, […]