It is a glorious task that lies before the minister of to-dayto maintain, develop, and uplift the spiritual life of the most wonderful epoch of the world's history; to place upon human souls that vital touch that shall hold their powers subject to eternal influences and aims.

I have endeavoured to show you how that may be done for that branch of science which it is my business to pursue; and I can but add, that I should look upon the day when every schoolmaster throughout this land was a centre of genuine, however rudimentary, scientific knowledge, as an epoch in the history of the country.

This drama, to be properly appreciated, both in its taste and feeling should be considered as addressed to the Italians of the epoch at which it was written.

I leave open the question whether particular species may have lived on from epoch to epoch.

Geographical provinces and zones may have been as distinctly marked in the Palaeozoic epoch as at present, and those seemingly sudden appearances of new genera and species, which we ascribe to new creation, may be simple results of migration.

Adolescence is one of the red-letter epochs for the pituitary, when its growth and enlargement precedes and stimulates the ripening of the sex cells in the reproductive organs.

'All previous descriptions refer the bituminous matter scattered over the La Brea district, and especially that between the village and the lake, to streams which have issued at some former epoch from the lake, and extended into the sea.

Worms most frequently occur, however, during childhood; much more so at this epoch than in adult age.

As man is begotten, born, developed to maturity and then is brought downward to the grave, so in the case of races and nations and the clearly defined epochs into which the history of man divides itself.

The conduct of Rome in this view is by no means unintelligible; but as little can it be denied that the Roman senate in dealing with this matter displayed shortsightedness and slacknessfaults which were still more inexcusably manifested in their mode of dealing at the same epoch with Gallic affairs.

In the philosophy of religion Schleiermacher created a new epoch by his separation between religion and related departments with which it had often been identified before his time, as it has been since.

It relates to an epoch among the most interesting of Modern History, and the extracts given in the Ragguagli only make us wish for more.

In short, we round an epoch within ourselves, historically and socially.

In fact, if we view with an unprejudiced eye this Hellenistic literature of the sixth centurythat poetry followed out professionally and destitute of all productiveness of its own, that uniform imitation of the very shallowest forms of foreign art, that repertoire of translations, that changeling of eposwe are tempted to reckon it simply one of the diseased symptoms of the epoch before us.

It seemed to be a community of old settlers, among whom everything had been going on prosperously since an epoch beyond the memory of man; and they kept a certain privacy among themselves, and dwelt on a cross-road at the entrance of which was a barred gate, hospitably open, but still impressing me with a sense of scarcely warrantable intrusion.

All but the first volume of the History deal with the epoch during which civilization has played a fateful role in world affairs.

[Footnote 2: Ibid., vol. iii., p. 343.] More interesting than the views of any other man of this epoch on the subject of Negro education were those of Thomas Jefferson.

In coming lectures,on Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone, etc.,we shall find occasion to trace the course of Victoria's beneficent reign over Great Britain, beginning (as it did) after the abuses and distresses culminating under George IV. had been largely relieved during the memorable reform epoch under William IV.

So on and on I went in my own natural development, and on and on I fashioned the productions of epoch after epoch.