Then Anthea pulled herself together. All her muscles tightened,

composition. But they have not endeavoured to pass a merely critical procedure for substantial

history. They have duly presented their judgments in the form of critical treatises. Among us, the

so-called “higher criticism,” which reigns supreme in the domain of philology, has also taken

possession of our historical literature. This “higher criticism” has been the pretext for introducing

all the anti-historical monstrosities that a vain imagination could suggest. Here we have the other

method of making the past a living reality; putting subjective fancies in the place of historical data;

fancies whose merit is measured by their boldness, that is, the scantiness of the particulars on

which they are based, and the peremptoriness with which they contravene the best established