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any such intent on the part of the fellow-pilgrini to 

 whom we owe these interesting notes of discussion. 

 To examine the details of these conversations would 

 carry us beyond 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 reflections 

 always interesting and often suggestive, Mr. Buckle, 

 on the other hand, though sufificiently alive to the 

 beauties of nature, seems quite oblivious to historic 

 memories. At the sepulchre of Christ his thoughts 

 were mainly on political economy, " the state of 

 society and the habits of the people." In such 

 trivial details some light is thrown, perhaps, on that 

 lack of intellectual sympathy with the past which 

 was one of Mr. Buckle's most notable defects as a 

 historian. 



But with all this intellectual narrowness and loose- 

 ness of texture, the narrative gives one a very pleasant 

 impression of Mr. Buckle personally, and, furthermore, 

 enables one to comprehend how, with such slight 

 qualifications, he should have become so interesting 



