text:  If Alexander and Archimedes evoked from their long sleep were to contemplate with minds calmed by removal from contemporaneous interests the state of mankind in the present year with what different feelings would they regard the influence of their respective lives upon the existing human world of 1843! The Macedonian would find the empire which it was the labour of his life to aggrandize frittered into parcels modeled remodeled subjected to various dynasties; Turks Greeks Russians still contending for portions of the territory which he had conjoined only to be dismembered; he would find in these little or no trace of his ever having existed; he would find that the unity of his vast political power had been severed before his body was yet entombed and his prediction that his funeral obsequies would be performed with bloody hands verily fulfilled