philosophical line of great German philosophers. The artistic school followed in the track and supplanted the Crucifix and Ecce home by the Apollo of Belvedere and the Venus di Medici. And finally the historical school came forward to justify this aversion to so sad a present, and to encourage a boundless admiration for the wisdom of the past. Moreover, you remember, how the πάντα ῤεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει was once the watchword of the Stoä; and thus, by resolving everything in an uninterrupted