,E are told by men of science that 

 all the ventures of mariners on the 

 sea, all that countermarching of 

 tribes and races that confounds old 

 history with its dust and rumor, 

 sprang from nothing more abstruse than the 

 laws of supply and demand, and a certain nat- 

 ural instinct for cheap rations. To any one 

 thinking deeply, this will seem a dull and 

 pitiful explanation. The tribes that came 

 swarming out of the North and East, if they 

 were indeed pressed onward from behind by 

 others, were drawn at the same time by the 

 magnetic influence of the South and West. 

 The fame of other lands had reached them ; 

 the name of the Eternal City rang in their 

 ears; they were not colonists, but pilgrims; 

 they travelled toward wine and gold, and sun- 

 shine, but their hearts were set on something 

 higher. That divine unrest, that old stinging 

 trouble of humanity that makes all high 

 achievements and all miserable failure, the 

 same that spread wings with Icarus, the same 

 that sent Columbus into the desolate Atlan- 

 tic, inspired and supported these barbarians 

 on their perilous march. STEVENSON. 



