They were filled by an uninterrupted series of religious movements.

In the degree that power became secularized, and passed into the hands of unbelievers, the Jewish people lived less and less for the earth, and became more and more absorbed by the strange fermentation which was operating in their midst.

The world, distracted by other spectacles, had little knowledge of that which passed in this forgotten corner of the East.

The minds abreast of their age were, however, better informed.

The tender and clear-sighted Virgil seems to answer, as by a secret echo, to the second Isaiah.