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Show r ire and inooa. The Japanese consider they go so fast ihat we ought perhaps now to say they :onsidered blood and fire to be the samo thing, as they practically were in the French poetical imagery of the later middle ages. In Baron's old "Art Her-aldique" Her-aldique" the color gules is compared bofh to the flames of fire and the mixed humor of the blood It is also, he says, the symbol of the day of judgment; and he goes on pleasantly to liken it to the wrath of God, which will then plunge the wicked in eternal flame. |