their own minds, but without an understanding truly Divine they can never form such an idea to themselves as the Deity had in creating it.” “If,” says Matthew Arnold, “you shut a number of men up to make study and learning the business of their lives, how many of them, from want of some discipline or other, seem to lose all balance of judgment, all common sense.” The learned professor of Assyriology at Oxford said that the investigation of the literary source of history has been a peculiarly German