C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS.

THE THIRD BOOK OF

HISTORY OF NATURE

WRITTEN BY

C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS.

…..and that greatness has departed like a dream, European

superiority still exists. A prophecy from the remotest ages (Gen. ix. 27)

delivered under circumstances in which its fulfilment was exceedingly

unlikely has proclaimed, that the God whom Pliny did not know shall

enlarge Japhet, the father of European nations ; that he shall dwell in

the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant. And, accordingly,

we see the inhabitants of Europe spreading out, and exerting a mastery,

in the most distant climes ; in the strength of their superiority in the arts

of life, in science, the freedom of their political institutions, and, above all,

in religion. The superiority must continue so long as this foundation of

it shall exist.