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recent on which our eyes weeks—is and minds have been fixed during the last few only another instance of this characteristic of modern warfare. continuous state of warfare to its inventive power, but the question we should like to this—What ask of Science (or of anybody who will answer it)'is have we gained by the change? distance, facilitated locomotion, rendered a hundred services to the spread of comfort and luxury, but is it not true that the price has been “ the pound of flesh ”? The enormous armaments, or huge fleets which are maintained by all civilized nations at immense expense, which are maintained on a war basis for years together, this burden alone is, from an economic point of view, as bad or worse than a prolonged war fought out in the good old-fashioned style of (“summer campaigns and winter feasting.” But it is the nervous strain which is the heaviest debt that humanity pays to modern Science. The war-cloud hangs like a nightmare upon the life _ of nations, and communicates itself in strange feelings of terror to individual citizens. feel it le in our sea-girt islands than men do on the continent of Europe, but we feel the strain sufficiently to sympathize with our Continental neighbours. Is it not more terrible to live under the constant dread of an impending shock which may destroy an empire it has taken centuries to build, or ruin a prosperity it has taken decades of thrift and industry to secure ‘ more terrible this than to face the po ibilities of even a prolonged combat in which there was much to excite the imagination and much to satisfy the natural fighting instincts of humanity, in which there | were chivalrous deeds to be done and knightly honours to be gained under the eye of some feudal chieftain or of some heroic king? the strong it is a cataclysm which threatens strong and weak; together, and the nervous strain which scientjfic warfare creates even in times of peace, is the bitterest tax which we have to pay for our civilization. Burgundy, recognized as her nephew, Richard of York, who had been murdered in the Tower. Warbeck made many attempts to gain the English throne, but he was executed in 1499. was bom in 1698. He was brought up to the law* but took deacon's orders in 1723. In 1727 he wrote the “Causes of Prodigies and Miracles’'; but his first important work, the “Alliance between Church and State” was published in 1736. His great work, "The Divine Legation of Moses” was a ailed in many quarters. In 1746 he became preacher to the society of Lincoln's Inn, and Bishop of Gloucester in 1759.