Is it not dreadful and humiliating to think that Moses went up upon Sinai, the 'Greeks built their lovely temples, te Romans waged their Punic wars, Alexander, tat handsome genius in a plumed helmet, fought his battles, apostles preached, martyrs suffered, poets sang, artists painted, knights shone at touraments-only that some French, German, Russian bourgeois garbed in unsightly and absurd clothes should enjoy life 'individually' or 'collectively' on the ruins of all this vanished splendour?