of youthful and ardent possession of power, how it investigates according to Babylonian standpoints the Grecian and the Roman civilization, and the religion of Israel also. That the older sciences resist such Babylonizing attempts is conceivable enough; Greek scholars, for example, will not soon be able to convince themselves to admit as imported from the Orient much that, until now, they have regarded as natively Hellenic. But in spite of all opposition, we may safely assume that such investigations