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montanisIn; and when the historical commission was instituted at Munich, by disciples of the Berlin school, he was passed over at first, and afterwards opposed. When public matters took him to Berlin in 1857, he sought no intercourse with the divines of the faculty. The common idea of his Rejorl1zation was expressed by Kaulbach in a drawing which represented the four chief reforrners riding on one horse, pursued by a scavenger with the unmistakable features of their historian. He was received with civility at Rome, if not with cordiality. The pope sent to Cesena for a manuscript which it was reported that he wished to consult; and his days were spent profitably between the Minerva and the Vatican, where he was initiated in the mysteries of Galileo's tower. I t was his fortune to have for pilot and instructor a prelate classified in the pigeon-holes of the Wilhelmsstrasse as the chief agitator against the State, "dessen umfangreiches Wissen noch durch dessen Feinheit und geistige Gewandt- heit übertroffen wird." He was welcomed by Passaglia and Schrader at the Collegio Romano, and enjoyed the privilege of examining San Callisto with De Rossi for his guide. His personal experience was agreeable, though he strove unsuccessfully to prevent the condemnation of two of his colleagues by the Index. There have been men connected with him \vho knew Rome in his time, and whose knowledge moved them to indignation and despair. One bishop assured him that the Christian religion was extinct there, and only survived in its fonns; and an important ecclesiastic on the spot wrote: Delenda est C arthag-o. The archives of the Culturkampf contain a despatch from a Protestant states- man sometime his friend, urging his government to deal with t e Papacy as they would deal with Dahomey. Döllinger's impression on his journey was very different. He did not come a\vay charged with visions of scandal in the spiritual order, of suffering .in the temporal, or of tyranny in either. He was never in contact with the sinister side of things. Theiner's Life of Cle1'Jlent the Fourtee'flth failed to convince him, and he ,listened in- &