The Quartier Latin since the War [pp. 326-336]

326 TiiE QU~HEE LATIN SINCE THE WAR. [Dec.,
the ingenious writer from whom we have been borr9wing, at the
bottom of the page.*
It would scarcely be worth while to take so much notice of
the hypothesis of the tertiary man, were it not that M. Francis
Lenormant has given it so large a place and so much importance in a work which is. being widely circulated at the present
time in an English translation.
M Jean d'Estienne, a writer on scientific questions of high
repute, says of this hypothesis:
"It is an hypothesis and nothing more, and the indications upon which
it has been constructed do not seem, at least up to the present time, capabie of withstanding a serious and profound examination. We may be allowed to express our astonishment that M. Fran~ois Lenormant has accorded both in his special and general theories such a large place and such
considerable importance to a gratuitous conjecture, sustained to-day, saving some honorable but rare exceptions, only by those scientists who are
interested in making science progress in a preconceived direction." t
The scientific congresses of Europe have received with di~
favor the evidences brought before them for the tertiary man,
and we may therefore dismiss it and turn toward other theories
which have more probability.
THE QUARTIER LATIN SINCE THE WAR.
EvI~~sPEAKING people ~y that Napoleon III. planned tbe
`Boulevard St. Germain to have revenge on the aristocratic faubourg for showing his court the cold shoulder. In its im
mense sweep from the f)ont de Sully to the Corps L~gislatif it
was to run right through the precincts sacred to Legitimacy,
carrying the bustle and vulgarity of modern civilization under
the noses of the descendants of the crusaders, where it did not
* log. a-log. b
log. (i+c)-log.c
Let x be the number of years sought; ~et a equal 1,300,000,000, b equal 5, and C 228
Then
log. i,~oo,000,ooo-log. 8=9,1139433523- 0,9030899870
log. ~2~-log. 228 2,3598354823 - 2,357~34847o
8,2108533653 82108533653
0,0019006353 = 19006353 = 4320.
t Art. "L'Humanite' Primitive, etc.," Revue des Qu. Scieniti., Oct. 20, 1882.