These young giants needed the dying language and literature and religion, and these great institutions needed their young, fresh blood.

But between lay the granite walls builded from sea to sea.

Now mark what Charles Kingsley called "the strategy of Providence." Suddenly a blind impulse fell upon the forest children.

Two columns started southward.

The one rested upon the North Sea and marched southeast; the other rested upon the Ural Mountains and marched southwest; the two met and converged upon Trieste.