Roman,  is  doing  his  deeds  of  daring  against  the
ramparts  which  erst  were  his  own,  forthwith
the  Carthaginians  stood  dumbfounded  as  at  a
"  novel "  and  "  strange  "  ingenuity  :

**  So  much  doth  Time's  long  age  avail  to  change  I  *' '

Thus,  in  short,  it  is  that  the  mantle,  too,  is  not
recognised.
CHAP.   II. — THE    LAW  OF  CHANGE,  OR    MUTATION,

UNIVERSAL.
Draw  we  now  our  material  from  some  other
source,  lest  Punichood  either  blush  or  else  grieve
in  the  midst  of  Romans.  To  change  her  habit
is,  at  all  events,  the  stated  function  of  entire
nature.  The  very  world*  itself  (this  which  we
inhabit)  meantime  discharges  it.  See  to  it  An-
aximander,  if  he  thinks  there  are  more  (worlds)  :
see  to  it,  whoever  else  (thinks  there  exists  an-
other) anywhere  at  the  region  of  the^Meropes,
as  Silenus  prates  in  the  ears  of  Midas,'  apt  (as
those  ears  are  ^),  it  must  be  admitted,  for  even
huger  fables.  Nay,  even  if  Plato  thinks  there
exists  one  of  which  this  of  ours  is  the  image,
that  likewise  must  necessarily  have  similarly
to  undergo  mutation;  inasmuch  as,  if  it  is  a
"world," 5  it  will  consist  of  diverse  substances
and  offices,  answerable  to  the  form  of  that  which
is  here  the  "  world :  "  5  for  "  world  "  it  will  not
be  if  it  be  not  just  as  the  "  world  "  is.  Things
which,  in  diversity,  tend  to  unity,  are  diverse  dy
demutation.  In  short,  it  is  their  vicissitudes
which  federate  the  discord  of  their  diversity.
