the whole problem
satisfactorily.

[954] Of these quasi-deities Fides is the oldest, and
was associated with Jupiter on the Capitol; Wissowa,
_R.K._ 103 foll. Thus we may find a _callida iunctura_
between the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
stanzas, for Fides and Pax would fit in well with the
_responsa petunt_ of the fourteenth. Whether Pax was
recognised as a deity at this time is not quite certain;
but a few years later, in 9 B.C., an altar of Pax
Augusta was dedicated. The Ara Pacis was begun in 13
B.C. See Axtell, _Deification of Abstract Ideas_
(Chicago, 1907), p. 37, who may also be consulted for
the other deities here mentioned. See also above, p.
285. In Tibull. i. 10. 45 foll., Pax seems to be on the
verge of deification, but not to have attained it except
in the poet's fancy.

[955] The route may be followed in the map of the Via
Sacra in Lanciani's _Ruins and Excavations_, and in his
chapter entitled, "A Walk through the Sacra Via," or
more shortly in my _Social Life in the Age of Cicero_,
p. 18 foll.

_Note._--The whole question of the singing of
the _Carmen saeculare_ in its relation to the two
principal sites and to the topography of the festival
generally, is fully discussed by the author in
_Classical Review_ for 1910, p. 145 foll.

LECTURE XX

CONCLUSION

"A time of spiritual awakening, of a calling to higher destinies, came
upon the world, the civilised world which lay around the Mediterranean
Sea, at the beginning of our era. The calling was concentrated in the
life and death of the Founder of Christianity."[956] The writer of these
words goes on to point out that the beginning of our era was "a time of
general stirring in all the higher fields of human activity," and that
all such stirring, all that brings higher ideals before the minds of men
of action, of imagination, or of reflection, if not itself religion, is
in some sense religious, and in that age must be taken into account as
having some bearing on the origin of Christianity, the greatest of all
religious movements. And inasmuch as the new spirit of the age seems to
have put new life into the old religious systems, with the help of
philosophy and poetry, as well as of a purer and more effective
conception of Man's relation to the Power manifesting itself in the
universe, he finds it useful and legitimate to show h