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the words, &quot;Divo Josaphat&quot;; within, occupying one of 

 the places of highest honor, was an altar to the saint, 

 and above it a statue representing him as a young prince 

 wearing a crown and holding a crucifix. By permission 

 of the authorities I was allowed to send a photographer, 

 who took a negative for me. A remark of the Commen- 

 datore Marzo upon the subject pleased me much. When, 

 one day, after showing me the treasures of his great 

 library, he was dining with me, and I pressed him for 

 particulars regarding St. Josaphat, he answered, &quot;He 

 cannot be the Jehoshaphat of the Old Testament, for he 

 is represented as a very young man, and contemplating 

 a crucifix: e molto misterioso.&quot; It was, after all, not so 

 yery mysterious; for in these later days, now that the 

 &quot;Life of Barlaam and Josaphat/ which dates from 

 monks of the sixth or seventh century, has been compared 

 with the &quot;Life of Buddha, &quot; certainly written before the 

 Christian era, the constant coincidence in details, and 

 even in phrases, puts it beyond the slightest doubt that 

 St. Josaphat and Buddha are one and the same person. 



Very suggestive to thought was a visit to the wonder 

 ful cathedral of Monreale, above Palermo; for here, at 

 this southern extreme of Europe, I found a conception 

 of the Almighty as an enlarged human being, subject to 

 human weakness, identical with that shown in the sculp 

 tures upon the cathedral of Upsala, at the extreme north 

 of Europe. The whole interior of Monreale Cathedral 

 is covered with a vast sheet of mosaics dating from about 

 the twelfth century, and in one series of these, repre 

 senting the creation, the Almighty is shown as working, 

 day after day, like an artisan, and finally, on the seventh 

 day, as &quot; resting, &quot; seated in almost the exact attitude of 

 the &quot;weary Mercury&quot; of classic sculpture, with a marked 

 expression of fatigue upon his countenance and in the 

 whole disposition of his body. 1 



During this journey, having revisited Orvieto, Perugia, 



1 1 have given a more full discussion of this subject in my &quot; History 

 of the Warfare of Science with Theology,&quot; Vol. I, p. 3. 



