But its last clause orders the burning of all his hunting apparatus, spears and nets, &c., on his funeral pyre, and thus betrays the Gaulish habit (Bruns, p.

308, ed.

1909).] The facts which I have tried to set forth in the preceding paragraphs seem to me to possess more weight than is always allowed.

Some writers, for instance M.Loth, speak as if the external environment of daily life, the furniture and decorations and architecture of our houses, or the clothes and buckles and brooches of our dress, bore no relation to the feelings and sentiments of those that used them.

That is not a tenable proposition.