OF THE REV. ROBERT ALFRED VAUGHAN. EDITED, WITH A MEMOIR, BY THE REV. ROBERT VAUGH AN, D.D. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: 1858. 270.6.360, THE CHRIST OF HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 LEWES'S LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE. . .... .114 THE DREAM OF PHILO . . . . . . . . . . . 245 ADDRESS TO DIVINITY STUDENTS ON LEAVING COLLEGE . 254 ART AND HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 THE LEGEND OF THE SANGREAL . . . . . . . . . . 285 THE STORY OF NICHOLAS FLAMEL, THE ALCHEMIST . . . 292 INDIA IN 1857: HISTORICAL PARALLELS . . . . . . . 306 THACKERAY'S ESMOND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 BAUMGARTEN'S ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, ETC. GERMAN THEOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 ON BALDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 MATTHEW ARNOLD'S POEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 CRAIGCROOK CASTLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. YOUNG'S PRE-RAFFAELITISM. . . . . . . . . . . . 342 BUSKIN'S NOTES ON THE TURNER GALLERY . . . . . . 346 MAURICE'S MEDIÆVAL PHILOSOPHY . . . . . . . . . 348 ********************************* HYPATIA; OR, NEW FOES WITH AN OLD FACE.* SIR THOMAS BROWNE compares heresies to the river Area thusa, which loses its current, and passes underground in one place, to reappear in another. He talks, in his quaint fashion, of a certain metempsychosis of ideas, according to which the soul of one man appears to pass into another, and opinions find, after sundry revolutions, men and minds like those that first begat them.' No philosopher has yet arisen fully to follow out the hint of that fanciful old physician to whose egoistic yet genial soliloquizing we still hearken in the pages of the Religio Medici. A cynic might, perhaps, regard Adelung's History of Human Folly as already occupying nearly all the ground embraced by such a study. Has not Shakspeare said — One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, Though they be framed and fashioned of things past ? True, -as Shakspeare always is—yet what a fascinating theme does the very rebuke disclose. Such an inquiry into the processes by. which antiquity has been thus attired in the show of novelty,-into the history of that mysterious interpenetration of old and new,-into the laws, if laws there be, according to which dead thoughts are . periodically raised to life, and the past is summoned to play its part under the freshly-painted mask of the present,- might well task the * Hypatia; or, New Foes with an Old Face. By CHARLES KINGSLEY, jun. 2 vols. John W. Parker and Son. VOL. II. |