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and regulations, all resuscitators (by trespass and petty
larceny of kindlings) of venville rights, obsolete by
desuetude, all orotund instigators of international
persecution, all perpetuators of international animosities,

all menial molestors of domestic conviviality, all
recalcitrant violators of domestic connubiality.
Prove that he had loved rectitude from his earliest
youth.
To Master Percy Apjohn at High School in 1880 he
had divulged his disbelief in the tenets of the Irish
(protestant) church (to which his father Rudolf Virag (later
Rudolph Bloom) had been converted from the Israelitic
faith and communion in 1865 by the Society for
promoting Christianity among the jews) subsequently
abjured by him in favour of Roman catholicism at the
epoch of and with a view to his matrimony in 1888. To
Daniel Magrane and Francis Wade in 1882 during a
juvenile friendship (terminated by the premature
emigration of the former) he had advocated during
nocturnal perambulations the political theory of colonial
(e.g. Canadian) expansion and the evolutionary theories of
Charles Darwin, expounded in The Descent of Man and The
Origin of Species. In 1885 he had publicly expressed his
adherence to the collective and national economic

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