Last year, in pursuance of my plan of inquiring how far the modern statesman could obtain assistance from certain of the more famous writers of antiquity, I submitted to you some observations upon Polybius, an author who, thanks to various accidental circumstances and to his unattractive style, has hardly had justice done to him, in these our days, and you will probably not think it unnatural if I speak to-day of Cicero, who was in some sort a pupil of the Achaean warrior, statesman and historian.