text:  Now Sirs; this story doth to me recall A new example of the fact surprising: We see each day the sun before us rising Yet right _was_ Galileo after all! In the spirited lines addressed to "The Slanderers of Russia " Pushkin has recorded a sufficiently conclusive reply to the hackneyed calumnies against his country repeated with such a nauseating uniformity and through so long a period of time in wretched verse or more wretched prose in the leading articles of obscure provincial newspapers and on the scaffolding of obscure provincial hustings