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subtlety or deep penetration are continually 

 brought to our notice ; and all the more forcibly 

 because of the absence of any such intent on the 

 part of the fellow-pilgrim to whom we owe these 

 interesting notes of discussion. To examine the 

 details of these conversations would carry us be 

 yond our limits, and would hardly be justified by 

 their intrinsic importance. One little point we 

 must note as characteristic, with regard to Mr. 

 Buckle s temperament as a historian. While Mr. 

 Stuart-Glennie seems to have his whole soul stirred 

 within him by the historic associations clustering 

 about the places visited, and is moved to reflec 

 tions always interesting and often suggestive, Mr. 

 Buckle, on the other hand, though sufficiently 

 alive to the beauties of nature, seems quite ob 

 livious to historic memories. At the sepulchre 

 of Christ his thoughts were mainly on political 

 economy, &quot; the state of society and the habits of 

 the people.&quot; In such trivial details some light is 

 thrown, perhaps, on that lack of intellectual sym 

 pathy with the past which was one of Mr. Buckle s 

 most notable defects as a historian. 



But with all this intellectual narrowness and 

 looseness of texture, the narrative gives one a 

 very pleasant impression of Mr. Buckle person 

 ally, and, furthermore, enables one to comprehend 



