Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth . . . that the Lord said, ' My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh.' The Book of Genesis. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids T Herostratuu lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he ia almost lost that built it; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations; and Thersites is likely to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of Time T SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Hydriotophia. THE HILLS OF THE DEAD THE story of the rocks does not end with the death of the dragons; but when those monsters have vanished, and Eolifchic man also has fallen back into the darkness out of which he rose so mysteriously, the storyteller has a new standpoint. He has to show what man made of the earth, and of himself, rather than what the earth inflicted on man. Man's life and progress are continuous henceforth. It is at Dorchester, perhaps, more definitely than at any other place in England, that this continuity is visible. It is a town which has been a town ever since towns first were in England. Here every race that has lived in Britain has lived; and when you stand near where now the two railways join one another, you are standing upon a spot than which no place in this island has been for a longer time continuously inhabited. It is beyond doubt, it seems, that eit...