As flinging out some antiquated gear.
So wide, since subtle Greece the pebble flung
Into the sleeping pool of superstition,
Its undulation spreads to other shores,
And saps at the foundation of our schools.
—Why, this last Roman, Caius Plinius—
Who drawing nature’s growth and history
Down to her root and first cause—What says he?—
Ev’n at the very threshold of his book
A definition laying, over which