776 THE UNIVERSE. 



the celebrated mountain, so soon as the hunter has pierced 

 them with an arrow, seek out the plant and eat it in order 

 to make the arrow drop out and so to heal the wound. 

 Half a century ago, who would have dared to deny such 

 a wonderful property, when at that time a noble work on 

 Greece contained a long chapter on the virtues of the divine 

 vulnerary, and when, in addition to this, the reader might 

 see an engi^aving representing a goat pierced with arrows 

 and browsing upon the salutary herb ? 



In this way, unfortunately, did the authority of the 

 learned retard and fetter the progress of truth. 



THE EXD. 



