PBODUCED BY MAN. 843 



name Prince Bismarck would, I apprehend, as little object as it 

 would seem he does to adopting his principles, sighing for the 

 time when he would get back to his farm, the articles consumed 

 in which at least were * reserved for native industry.' The amount 

 of difference between these views and those of the statesman just 

 mentioned, or those of M. Pouyer-Quertier, or of another country- 

 man of MM. Quesnay, Turgot, and Chevalier who is reported in 

 the same ' Times ' of Friday, May 2nd, no time having been lost 

 in giving these valuable views to the world, to have averred 

 that an increase in the imports denoted the impoverishment of a 

 country, I must, as did Captain Lemuel Gulliver under some- 

 what similar circumstances in Laputa, profess myself to be ' not 

 skilful enough to comprehend.' What is shown seems to me 

 to be that in modern not less than in ancient times men will 

 run their heads against the multiplication table, and that for the 

 passing moment, at least, it is not always the heads which come 

 off second best in the encounter. 



Of the second difference between the old world and the new 

 which our command of methods and means, our recognition of the 

 futility of attempting enterprises with a manus nuda and an intel- 

 lectus slU permissMS^ has created, the gas, glass, and coal around us 

 in this room speak, and I need not. 



As regards the third great point of contrast upon which Herr 

 Hehn insists, that of natural science, we are all probably at one 

 with him. Our agreement may be illustrated by contrasting the 

 different factors which two poets, each an artist capable of taking a 

 wide view with due perspective and proportion of the sum of man's 

 activities, have in ancient and modern times respectively enu- 

 merated as making up that sum. When Juvenal specifies what he 

 means by ' Quidquid agunt homines,' the comprehensive title of 

 his satires, he enumerates nothing— because, I suppose, he considered 

 all else beneath the dignity of a poet — but 



'Votum, timor, ira, voluptas, 

 Gaudia, discursus' — 

 large enough matters, but imponderables all of them. Contrast 

 these items,— I purposely speak in Philistine phraseology— with 



latter enjoined, i. 22. i, in words which the Cliambers of Commerce aforesaid re-echoed 

 in their modified Roman tongue. ' Quae nasci in fundo ac fieri a domesticis poterunt. 

 eorum ne quid ematur.* 



