text:  If the act be rare is not the anxiety eternal? If the personal suffering be transitory is not the outrage upon human sensibilities upon the majesty of human nature upon the possibilities of light order commerce civilization of a duration and a compass to make the total difference between man viler than the brutes and man a little lower than the angels? It happened that the first noble or "Adikar " of the Kandyan king being charged with treason at this time had fled to our protection