The mark of a bullet in the wall is still shown.

The dining-room, from which he had come, now contains a collection of relics of his great career.
Let us return to the New Church, past the statue of Grotius in the great square, in order to look again at that philosopher's memorial.

Grotius, who was born at Delft, was extraordinarily precocious.

He went to Leyden University and studied under Scaliger when he was eleven; at sixteen he was practising as a lawyer at The Hague.

This is D.Goslings' translation of the inscription on his tomb:-- _Sacred to Hugo Grotius_ The Wonder of Europe, the sole astonishment of the learned world, the splendid work of nature surpassing itself, the summit of genius, the image of virtue, the ornament raised above mankind, to whom the defended honour of true religion gave cedars from the top of Lebanon, whom Mars adorned with laurels and Pallas with olive branches, when he had published the right of war and peace: whom the Thames and the Seine regarded as the wonder of the Dutch, and whom the court of Sweden took in its service: Here lies _Grotius_.