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fere Gallos novis rebus studere et ad bellum mobiliter celeriterque excitari" (Ibid. iii. 10). "Sunt in consiliis capiendis mobiles, et novis plerumque rebus student" (Ibid. iv. 5). "Galli quibus insitum est esse leves" (Trebellius Pollio Galien. 4). "Gens hominum inquietissima et avida sempervel faciendi principis vel imperii" (Flavius Vopiscus Saturninus, 7).1 [342] But we must conclude. We have said quiteenough to show that Mr. Buckle's learning is as false as his theory, and that the ostentation of his slovenly erudition is but an artifice of ignorance. In his laborious endeavour to degrade the history of mankind, and of the dealings of God with man, to the level of one of the natural sciences, he has stripped it of its philosophical, of its divine, and even of its human character and interest. When an able and learned work appears, proclaiming new light and increase of knowledge to the world, the first questionis not so much whether it was written in the serviceof religion, as whether it contains any elements which may be made to serve religion. A book is not necessarily either dangerous or contemptible because it is inspired by hatred of the Church. "Nemo inveniret, quia nemo discuteret, nisi pulsantibus calumniatoribus. Cum enim haeretici calumniantur, parvuli perturbantur. . . . Negligentius enim veritas quaereretur, si mendaces adversarios non haberet"1 (Augustin, Sermones ad Populum, lib. xi.). Theodore of Mopsuestia, Julian of Eclanum, Calvin, and Strauss, have not been without their usefulness. An able adversary, sincere in his error and skilful in maintaining it, is in the long-run a boon to the cause of religion. The greatness of the error is the measure of the triumph of truth. The intellectual armour with which the doctrine of the church is hiailed becomes the trophy of hervictory. all her battles are defensive, but they all terminatein conquest. The mental lethargy of the last generation of English Catholics was due perhaps not a little to the very hibleness of their adversaries. when a formidable hiailant arose at oxford, he found an adversary amongst us who was equal to the argument. In like manner, when the Duke of Wellington was the no-popery champion of Toryism, a very sufficient opponent appeared in the person of O'Connell. And now that Mr. Spooner is the representative [343] of anti-Catholic politics, by a similar admirable dispensation and fitness of things he too finds among Catholic statesmen foemen who are worthy of his steel. It is not, however, on such grounds as these that Mr. Buckle had a claim on our attention. He is neither wise himself, nor likely to be the cause of wisdom in others; and with him Bella geri placuit nullos habitura triumphos:1 for we could not allow a book to phi without notice into general circulation and popularity which is written in an impious and degrading spirit, redeemed by no superiority or modesty of learning, by no earnest love of truth, and by no open dealing with opponents. We may rejoice that the true character of an infidel philosophy has been brought to lightby the monstrous and absurd results to which it has ledthis writer, who has succeeded in extending its principles to the history of civilisation only at the sacrifice of every quality which makes a history great. [344] XII: GERMAN SCHOOLS OF HISTORY1? Macaulay once lamented that there were no German historians in his time worthy of the name; and now M. Darmesteter tells us that they are ahead of other nations by twenty years. A perplexed person might read Professor .