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of the pagan Ovid, as is undoubtedly the fact ; for in the first book 
of the Fasti (1. 87) we have what was plainly in the mind of 
Fortunatus — 
" Salve laeta dies meliorque revertere semper 
A populo rerum digna potente coli." 
And the resemblance lies not only in this particular passage, but in 
the thoughts and words, and even the style of the whole of the 
two poems. Compare especially the reference to chaos in both 
(Fasti i. 103 ; Fortunati Ep. 1. 89), and the manner in which both 
poets dwell upon the revivifying influence of the sun. It is not 
often that an imitation so far surpasses its original ; but this is one 
instance among many of how the Church, freely using the old 
materials, whether in language, in poetry, or in art, infused into 
them, as it were, a new spirit, and added to them a grace and 
grandeur that was exclusively her own. 
PAUPERISM. 
ABSTRACT OF MR. A. P. PROWSE's PAPER. 
(Read November 30th, 1871.) 
Mr. Prowse commenced by a reference to the growth of the 
national wealth. In 1770 Arthur Young computed the annual 
income of the nation at 122 millions, the population being 8^ 
millions. In 1870 the national income for a population of barely 
22| millions was £879,420,902. Population had thus increased 
2^ times, income more than 6 times. The exports in 1870 were 
40 J millions more than those of 10 years a century since, whilst 
the imports for 1870 were 185 millions in excess of those of a 
decade a hundred years ago. Whilst the total population of the 
United Kingdom had increased 2| times, the imports had thus 
advanced 22 times. Mr. Dudley Baxter estimated the value of 
the real property of the United Kingdom at £2,000,000,000, and 
of the personal at £4,000,000,000. An examination of the cir- 
cumstances of British manufacturing trade shewed that whilst the 
manufactures were not beaten in the foreign market, the home 
trade had fallen off, which was in a great measure the cause of the 
depression under which Britain had suffered. Why was it that with 
so much wealth there was so much pauperism ? According to the 
