you think it worth the trouble--which I do not--I shall have to go
to the synagogue on business in a week or so, and then I would ask
some of the Rabbis.'

'Laziest of men!--and I must answer Cyril this very day.'

'An additional reason for asking no questions of our people. Now
you can honestly say that you know nothing about the matter.'

'Well, after all, ignorance is a stronghold for poor statesmen. So
you need not hurry yourself.'

'I assure your excellency I will not.'

'Ten days hence, or so, you know.'

'Exactly, after it is all over.'

'And can't be helped. What a comfort it is, now and then, that
Can't be helped!'

'It is the root and marrow of all philosophy. Your practical man,
poor wretch, will try to help this and that, and torment his soul
with ways and means, and preventives and forestallings; your
philosopher quietly says--It can't be helped. If it ought to be, it
will be--if it is, it ought to be. We did not make the world, and we
are not responsible for it.--There is the sum and substance of all
true wisdom, and the epitome of all that has been said and
writtenthereon from Philo the Jew to Hypatia the Gentile. By the
way, here's Cyril coming downthe steps of the Caesareum. A very