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Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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Sir Max Beerbohm
68
VI
“The
evil
that
men
do
lives
after
them;
the
good
is
oft
interred
with
their
bones.”
At
any
rate,
the
sinner
has
a
better
chance
than
the
saint
of
being
hereafter
remembered.
We,
in
whom
original
sin
preponderates,
find
him
easier
to
understand.
He
is
near
to
us,
clear
to
us.
The
saint
is
remote,
dim.
A
very
great
saint
may,
of
course,
be
remembered
through
some
sheer
force
of
originality
in
him;
and
then
the
very
mystery
that
involves
him
for
us
makes
him
the
harder
to
forget:
he
haunts
us
the
more
surely
because
we
shall
never
understand
him.
But
the
ordinary
saints
grow
faint
to
posterity;
whilst
quite
ordinary
sinners
pass
vividly
down
the
ages.
Of
the
disciples
of
Jesus,
which
is
he
that
is
most
often
remembered
and
cited
by
us?
Not
the
disciple
whom
Jesus
loved;
neither
of
the
Boanerges,
nor
any
other
of
them
who
so
steadfastly
followed
Him
and
served
Him;
but
the
disciple
who
betrayed
Him
for
thirty
pieces
of
silver.
Judas
Iscariot
it
is
who
outstands,
overshadowing
those
other
fishermen.
And
perhaps
it
was
by
reason
of
this
precedence
that
Christopher
Whitrid,
Knight,
in
the
reign
of
Henry
VI.,
gave
the
name
of
Judas
to
the
College
which
he
had
founded.
Or
perhaps
it
was
because
he
felt
that
in
a
Christian
community
not
even
the
meanest
and
basest
of
men
should
be
accounted
beneath
contempt,
beyond
redemption.
At
any
rate,
thus
he
named
his
foundation.
And,
though
for
Oxford
men
the
savour
of
the
name
itself
has
long
evaporated
through
its
local
connexion,
many
things
show
that
for
the
Founder
himself
it
was
no
empty
vocable.
In
a
niche
above
the
gate
stands
a
rudely
carved
statue
of
Judas,
holding
a
money-bag
in
his
right
hand.
Among
the
original
statutes
of
the
College
is
one
by
which
the
Bursar
is
enjoined
to
distribute
in
Passion
Week
thirty
pieces
of
silver
among
the
needier
scholars
“for
saike
of
atonynge.”
The
meadow
adjoining
the
back
of
the
College
has
been
called
from
time
immemorial
“the
Potter’s
Field.”
And
the
name
of
Salt
Cellar
is
not
less
ancient
and
significant.
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