riety in historical compositions arise not from difference in general motive but from varying interpretations of objects and from different judgments so as to produce certain ends.

Classical historians are freer, yielding to a more popular sense, giving preference to representatives of the people. Such a step, from the egotistic to that of the altruistic, marks a long step and covers millenial years. To frighten and to glorify seem to characterize the days gone by as the only aim in life. Here we find the origin to ecclesiastical saints and political heroes.

The records of monuments, pyramids, engravings on stone, clay and other imperishable material carry the stamp of hero-worship and aggrandizement.

Even the printing press has by no means altered the old methods of provincialism, and we need to look to those who freely give their talents to research work, actuated by the spirit of scientific accuracy and impartiality.

We hold with Prof. Freeman, who said: "My position is that in all our studies of history and language we must cast away all distinctions of ancient and modern, of dead and

living, and most boldly grapple with the great fact of the unity of history. As man is the same in all ages, the history of man is one in all ages. No language, no period of history, can be understood in its fullness; none can be clothed with its highest interest and its profit if it be looked at wholly in itself, without reference to its bearing on those other languages, those other periods of history, which join with it to make up the great whole of human, or at least Aryan and European being."

No accurate history could ever be constructed of events covering a longer period than about four generations before the introduction of writing. And even after the introduction of writing much that might have proven of value has become lost to us, due to the ravages of time and the work of unchained elements. What there is of copies made there consists generally of interpolations and interpretations rather than the truth of the subject matter itself.

Persia, Greece and Egypt have perhaps suffered most. As to other Oriental nations the monumental records amount to nothing more than a scattered series of vague suggestions.

The more we reflect upon history, or its writers, the more clear it becomes that the one prime quality is that of human interest and where an interesting story proves more fit for preservation than an historical event.

In history the events of even a limited period must be linked at least with a sweeping general view of the world events, if a proper idea is to be formed.

The promotion of self-interests by the few has played havoc in every age and held back the wheel of progress, intended for the good of the greatest number. Still, such are the peculiarities of man's mentality when terrestrially attached to the phenomenal and the visionary, keeping the senses caught within a network of illusions. For this reason delusions present themselves in manifold phases which need to be dispelled by absolute experiences as to their effect, and no compromise is possible for error demands its full wage even to the extent of destruction. The path of the obscure has for this reason been a long and dreary one-a path mankind. has to travel for many more decades before mutual understanding may find recognition. The gap of estrangement among the many

tribes has to be spanned and bridged that the relationship may not only be recognized but adhesively cemented to bar off future sever

ance.

The leading elements of the stronger tribes will be brot to an understanding in much less time than the smaller factions of disrupted tribes who, by virtue of inferior motives, hold tenaciously to their obstinacy and therefore need to be conquered before they will yield to reason.

With Egypt as an independent state and India with a form of home rule, many things may develop that shall startle the whole diplomatic world. Still it's within the spirit of the times for wonders never to

cease.

When a man is dead he may not need anything, yet those he left behind may be in great distress.

Maguars and Slovaks may engage in encounters, yet it will avail them nothing unless they recognize miscegnation in themselves and with it a desire to understand one another better as to their blood ties.

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