Its title, The Unclassed, excited a little curiosity, but the author was careful to explain that he had not in view the déclassés but rather those persons who live in a limbo external to society, and refuse the statistic badge.

A Homeric limbo of departed souls did not suffice (though Vergil also availed himself of that in order to recall the friends of the early books).

They walked through the woods together, learned again its glades and coverts, searched its early treasure of blossoms; they went out on the lake and spent long April afternoons together, floating about cove and inlet of island-shores; they returned with innocent gayety to that house which once the mother, in her moment of passion, had fancied to be a possible heaven of delight, and which, since, she had found to be a very indifferent limbo.

What do the best become? Incapables, detached from the sap of life, forced to escape to the intellectual limbo of a suspension of judgment, extending till it fills heaven and earth.

There is no 'mystery' in Racinethat is to say, there are no metaphysical speculations in him, no suggestions of the transcendental, no hints as to the ultimate nature of reality and the constitution of the world; and so away with him, a creature of mere rhetoric and ingenuities, to the outer limbo!

He who plays with the void, who dallies with eternity, who leaps from star to star, is in danger at every moment of being swept into utter limbo, and tossed forever in the Paradise of Fools.

Do they not rather emerge unbidden from the vague limbo of sub-consciousness?"

There was a man whom I met once in that dark backward and abysm of time, when I must have been very youngI fancy at some college or school in England, and his name now is far enough beyond scope of my memory, lost in the vast limbo of past things.

It is to show that Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, etc., are all pretty certainly uninhabitable,being (Jupiter, Saturn, etc., to wit) strange washy limbos of places, where at the best only mollusks (or, in the case of Venus, salamanders) could exist.