The first is an analysis of the new priesthood; the second, a true personification, both by painting and sculpture, of Venus; the third, a discovery of what has been hitherto uninvented--a nightingale sauce.

By the inscrutable wisdom of Fate, it has been so willed that the last of the objects I proposed to myself has been the first attained.

The sauce is composed, and I have just concluded on this vellum the ode that is to introduce it at my table.
The analysation will be my next labour.

It will take the form of a treatise, in which, making the experience of past years the groundwork of prophecy for the future, I shall show the precise number of additional dissensions, controversies, and quarrels that will be required to enable the new priesthood to be themselves the destroyers of their own worship.

I shall ascertain by an exact computation the year in which this destruction will be consummated; and I have by me as the materials for my work an historical summary of Christian schisms and disputes in Rome for the last hundred years.