The Indian Review April 1885

The irreverence of the one and the scepticism of the other have a common root in a real distrust of the supernatural and it cannot be assumed that the affinities of these two states of mind are tied down to a community ofstock and spread to nothing that branches from it. [...] He reached Rome at the time of the great rejoicings for the return of the two Emperors from their campaign on the Danube afid witnessed another of the splendid religious pageants in which the Emperor acted as the most sacred high priest and listened to Aurelius's address on the vanity of human life to the assembled Senate in the vast hall of Curia Julia. [...] The only condition in which the dimensions of a given bulk of water are constant is that of ice and of a given quantity of sand that of sand-stone provided that the clmenting matter occupies only the Interstices between the particles of sand. [...] The bulk of the material of which it is made is of course unchanged *but.as a hollow solid the bulk of the vessel is altered: - The only practical fourth dimension that I can conceive of is-- " weight " or the amount of attraction towards its centre exercised on anything having three dimensionby the mass of the earth. [...] The question of the incorporation of the Suburban Municipalities in that of the metropolis is soon to be discussed by the Council of the Society; and a very practical step has been taken in the appointment of an overseer capable and properly trained in sanitary science whose business will be to inspect for a small charge the premises oo those that apply for his services and to report on any i