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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
generally felt (and the question will be decided in the long run by 
them, and not by scholars) was that the alterations and additions 
made by the Revisers were wanting in that happy vernacular style 
which has made both our English Bible and such authors as 
Shakspere dear to the heart of every Englishman. Here I ought 
to speak with becoming modesty, as it is to one of the most 
influential of the Revisers that I owe, in addition to Classical and 
Mathematical lectures of no small value, my introduction to the 
great writers of England, whom he used to recommend as examples 
of "idiomatic English." But Professor Newth was only one of 
many, and when Truth is put to the vote, she must expect sometimes 
to be in a minority. Yet if the revised translation of the Old 
Testament be even equally good with the New, there is little 
doubt that the New Version of the Bible will gradually but surely 
supersede the one now in use. Of the vast number of articles, 
pamphlets, and books of which the New Version was the prolific 
parent, the greater number are destined to enjoy a very ephemeral 
existence. Not so with a great work which appeared soon after 
it, though it had been commenced long before — the Greek New 
Testament of Drs. Westcott and Hort, which has been designated 
the most important contribution to a knowledge of the Greek 
Testament that the present century has produced. The student 
who possesses this work, and can read it in the original, has the 
satisfaction of feeling that he is coming as near as it is possible for 
us now to do to the position of those who were privileged in the 
first instance to read the original autographs themselves. 
The present century may be termed the Age of Teutonic Revival, 
as distinctly as the sixteenth was the Age of Classic Revival. The 
movement may be a more silent one, the animosity arising from 
religious differences (the most bitter of all animosities) may be 
absent from it, and no one need fear that it will be accompanied 
with a Thirty Years' War. In Devonshire we have seen during the 
present generation nearly every church in town or country built or 
restored, often with excellent taste, in the Gothic style. The literary 
movement, which originated in Germany with Grimm's Deutsche 
Grammatik, has shown itself in this country in a deeper interest 
in all connected with our National Language, Literature, and 
History. A similar movement, but not, I think, so strong, is going 
on in France; and Scandinavian learning, which has for many 
years had its seat at Copenhagen, has found a second home in this 
