140 HUNTING IN EARLY TIMES 



and no doubt the steam-engine and telegraphic wire are 

 something to boast of ; but we are yet in the dark as to 

 the power appHed in raising the Pyramids of Egypt, the 

 enormous blocks of stone used in Solomon's Temple, 

 and the Druidical remains at Stonehenge. To what limits 

 human knowledge is permitted to extend we know not, 

 but boundaries there are to man's inventive faculties, 

 as well as to the waves of the sea — ** Hitherto shalt thou 

 go, and no further." In some things the ancients sur- 

 passed us, in others we have surpassed them. Nemo est 

 ah omni parte beatus may be applied to nations as well as 

 to individuals. We do not learn, however, that they 

 knew much about fox-hunting, although the pursuit of 

 the stag was of very early origin, as we are told 

 " Esau went to the field to hunt for venison." 



