LATE PRINCIPAL OF ST. ALBAN'S HALL, OXFORD, AND FORMERLY FELLOW
OF ORIEL COLLEGE.

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done,
is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."-
Eccles. i. 9.

γιγνόμενα μὲν, καὶ ἀεὶ ἐσόμενα, ἕως ἂν Ἡ ΑΥΤΗ ΦΥΣΙΣ ΑΝ-
ΘΡΩΠΩΝ ᾖ, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ ἡσυχαίτερα, καὶ τοῖς εἴδεσι διηλλαγμένα, ὡς
ἂν ἕκασται αἱ μεταβολαὶ τῶν ξυντυχιῶν ἐφιστῶνται.—Thucyd. b. iii. ch. 82.