On the contrary, I find that the first priests were removed from them by law, and the later priests, by command of Christ, to His disciples."-- DE MONARCHIA, lib.iii.cap.

xi.
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."] [Footnote 1020: 'Blackwood's Magazine,' June, 1863, art.

'Girolamo Savonarola.'] [Footnote 1021: 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.] [Footnote 1022: 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.] [Footnote 111: Civic virtues, unless they have their origin and consecration in private and domestic virtues, are but the virtues of the theatre.