Dante also, still clinging to 'the Church he wished to reform,'
thus anticipated the fundamental doctrine of the Reformation:-
"Before the Church are the Old and New Testament; after the
Church are traditions. It follows, then, that the authority
of the Church depends, not on traditions, but traditions
on the Church."

(20) 'Blackwood's Magazine,' June, 1863, art. 'Girolamo
Savonarola.'

(21) One of the last passages in the Diary of Dr. Arnold, written
the year before his death, was as follows:- "It is the misfortune
of France that her 'past' cannot be loved or respected--her
future and her present cannot be wedded to it; yet how can the
present yield fruit, or the future have promise, except their
roots be fixed in the past? The evil is infinite, but the blame
rests with those who made the past a dead thing, out of which no
healthful life could be produced."--LIFE, ii. 387-8, Ed. 1858.

(22) A public orator lately spoke with contempt of the Battle of
Marathon, because only 192 perished on the side of the Athenians,
whereas by improved mechanism and destructive chemicals, some
50,000 men or more may now be destroyed within a few hours. Yet
the Battle of Marathon, and the heroism displayed in it, will
probably continue to be remembered when the gigantic butcheries of
modern times have been forgotten.