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Benvenuto Cellini Tells Us That When, In His Boyhood, He Saw A Salamander
Come Out Of The Fire, His Grandfather Forthwith Gave Him A Sound Beating,
That He Might The Better Remember So Unique A Prodigy. Though Perhaps In
This Case The Rod Had Another Application Than The Autobiographer Chooses
To Disclose, And Was Intended To Fix In The Pupil's Mind A Lesson Of
Veracity Rather Than Of Science, The Testimony To Its Mnemonic Virtue
Remains.