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ing to a religious faith; produce, from any quarter, names worthy to be compared with them. In matters such as these we are very much controlled by traditional estimates. The splendid literature of the Greeks and Romans has immortalized the deeds of their heroes, the battles won by their armies, and the victories achieved by the strategy of their generals; and that literature has moulded the thought of the world. The estimates thus formed have become fixed; and Alexander and Caesar and Hannibal have become the world's standard in generalship, and the Spartan and the Roman have become the world's standard in courage and intrepidity. It may be rank heresy to question the unbroken tradition of the centuries; but, for my part, I have never regarded these estimates as final. For instance, have you ever seriously asked upon what grounds the world-wide fame of Julius Caesar rests? Mainly upon the conquest of Gaul and Germany, does it not? And while no sane man will deny the milit