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Crippa, 1567, the Coimbra Jesuits, 1600,- Paciux, 

 1600, Havenreuter, 1600," but, with a sigh, he con- 

 cludes, " the paraphrase of the Greek monk, Tlwodoru* 

 Metochita (t 1332), has escaped me!" Here are 

 trucks, and tumbrels, carriage-waggons, and beasts of 

 burden, one would say, enough, surely, even for an army 

 of Xerxes and what if, in the end, they only draw a 

 pea ! Manuscripts and manuscripts, editions and editions, 

 texts, versions, commentaries 1 wonder how much of 

 no more than the one authority and even only in his 

 one work concerned here Hamilton really knew ! To 

 judge of Hamilton's Greeks as one judges of Hamilton's 

 Germans, would lead to a very sorry estimate. And yet 

 it was perfectly well known, and bragged, and boasted of 

 him, that he had simply smashed every German that ever 

 breathed Hegel, and Schelling, and Fichte, and Kant 

 even ! What a pity it was he died before Theophrastus 

 was shown by Waitz to be an authority for the Quanti- 

 fication of the Predicate ! Not that it would have 

 pleased him to find Prantl in this reference somewhat 

 of the opinion of Dr. Thomas Brown, who has this : 

 " To the communication of knowledge, it is necessary 

 that the predicate be more comprehensive than its 

 subject ! " The Quantification of the Predicate, as we 

 see it now, with all its bugles, drums, trumpets, and 

 whole armouries of bows and arrows one had to 

 wait some one thousand three hundred years, after 

 Aristotle, for Hamilton to give us that ! And yet that 

 even Brown should have scoffed at it ! Hamilton hated 

 Brown ; but he would have hated him ten times worse 

 had he known that which, however, as hidden in the 

 Observations on Darwin, he, probably, did not know. 

 It is really difficult to account for this heart's hatred 

 of Hamilton to a man veritably so modest, amiable, and 

 equitable as Brown was. Could Hamilton have hoped 



