" The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form ; and nothing stands ; They melt like mists, the solid lands ; Like clouds they shape themselves and go." If this mutation be true of organic changes in the physical earth, working through immeasurable aeons, it is even as dramatically true of organized social life. We are learning to take a new view of history. It is no longer regarded as a collection of isolated facts. Veracious history is a record of the orderly progression of events, developed by evolutionary processes. There is in it no break, no hiatus, excepting such temporary interruptions as come from what Emerson calh " the famous might that lurks in reaction recoil." Thus we learn the rationale of the events transcribed to the historical page. Until science lifted the curtain on " the eternal landscape of the past," man knew little of himself or of his kind. It is only with the enlarged vision that has come to us from the researdhes of the ethinologist, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, that we have begun to learn what a creature man really is ; to study his inner nature ; to get at the deeper meanings of the history of the race. Once the study of history was thought to be hardly more than learning a catalogue of royal djmasties ; tihe names of famous generals and statesmen : of battles lost and won ; of court intrigues ; of the vicissitudes of kingdoms ; of the prowess of pioneers and adventurers ; of " hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ;" of the pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war ! Such incidents have not lost, and never can lose, their interest. They are an integral part of the human document and must always be studied.