go THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
In the introduction to his learned work on ‘The 
Development of the Feeling for Nature among the 
Greeks and the Romans” Dr. Biese says: ‘If we in 
our knowledge-proud time look around upon the result 
of modern thought and modern activity, and see with 
admiration in all departments of human endeavor new 
ideas rule and vast revolutions ever accomplished or 
prepared, then it will seem to us as if a whole world 
separates us from the Past of the earlier centuries, as if 
our entire mode of viewing things were a totally changed 
one which is only in the remotest degree like anything 
of earlier times. And on the other hand, in the midst 
of the fermentation, distraction and unrest of modern 
life and strife, the feeling of sadness seizes us, as if the 
Past had possessed something which we are now de- 
prived of, as if we had lost the irrecoverable; and this 
longing weaves its magic mantle about a world of days 
long dead, in which the unsatisfied soul strives to find 
realized all which it misses so painfully in the Present. 
These two feelings, of pride over the immense progress 
of modern thought in comparison with the Past and of 
pain that a happy time born from the harmony of the 
outer and the inner life has vanished, hinder only too 
easily an objective appreciation of classic antiquity.” 
There have been no centuries in the world’s history 
that have felt a more wide-spread and deeper interest in 
the appearances of Nature than the present and the last. 
