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Why is it that this form of ambition — curiosity — which entered into the temptation of our first parent, is so specially hard to resist. Knowledge is power, and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.