Sorbonne appropriated Guérin’s theorems, and made them the subject of theses for graduation. The King of Poland read the work through, and sent his compliments to the author. The French government accorded the Abbé an annual pension of 1,200 livres. One reviewer compares Guérin’s discoveries to those of Columbus and Newton; and a poetical panegyrist sees in them a French counterpoise to the superiority in science then possessed by England in virtue of discoveries of the first rank in physical science. He says— Fière et docte Albion, qui dans un coin des mers Prétends aux premier rang de la littérature, Pour avoir à vos yeux dévoilé l’univers Et le vrai plan de la nature, De tes discours hautains rabaisse enfin le ton; La France, ta rivale, va égaler ta gloire. Ce que pour la physique a fait le grand Newton, Du Rocher l’a fait pour l’histoire. But even on the very threshold of the second part of our century, in 1849, a systematic argument was conducted, to show that Livy had read the Bible, and based his description of T. Manlius Torquatus’ battle with the Gauls on that of David and his battle with the Philistine giant; and twenty-two similarities between the respective stories had to do duty as demonstrations.[9] The unscientific mode of regarding these subjects prevailing up to the most recent time has not yet ceased to generate absurdities. We see old-fashioned absurdities still finding a way to the general reading public by means of encyclopedias, as in a ‘Dictionary of the Mythology of all Nations,’ of which a third edition was recently published.[10] This work in its new form comes before the public with a touching delivery against modern physical science by way of introduction. Here we read under _Abraham_, ‘Some scholars are inclined to make this celebrated Patriarch of the Jewish nation either the god Brahma himself or a Brahman who was obliged to leave India in the contest between the worshippers of Siva and those of Brahma. _In truth, there is much that might lead to such a conjecture._ In Sanskrit the word ‘earth’ is often expressed by _Brahm_ or _Abrahm_. Abraham’s wife was named Sarah; Brahma’s wife was Sara (Sarasvati)’ etc. But sins of a different kind also are committed up to the present day. The Hebrews are said to have borrowed their myths from foreign parts. It is not only by Voltaire and men of his age and spirit that this assumption is made. It is expressed in a recent article by a learned German investigator intended for the widest circulation. Sepp writes, 'No nation has been so clever as the Hebrews in appropriating to themselves the property of others, both intellectual and material. What can we say to the fact that the sun’s standing still at Joshua’s bidding, with the purpose of enabling the Hebrews to complete the slaughter of the Amalekites, is _directly borrowed from Homer_ (_Il._ ii. 412), where the poetical