la vertu meme
S'epouvantent en le voyant?

Comment, sous la sainte lumiere,
Voit-on des actes si hideux,
Qu'ils font expirer la priere
Sur les levres du malheureux?

Pourquoi, dans ton oeuvre celeste,
Tant d'elements si peu d'accord?
A quoi bon le crime et la peste,
O Dieu juste! pourquoi la mort?
ALFRED DE MUSSET, _Espoir en Dieu_.

[174] _Les origines indo-europeennes, ou les Aryas primitifs._--The
above is a _resume_, not a verbatim quotation.

[175] Quocirca te, Capitoline, quem propter beneficia populus Romanus
OPTIMUM, propter vim MAXIMUM nominavit. (_Pro domo sua_, LVII.)

[176] See the _Voyage autour de ma chambre_ of Xavier de Maistre.

[177] _Le crepuscule aux monts prolonger ses adieux._

[178]

Tout le bonheur tu cedes
Accroit ta felicite.

[179]

Chere a tout homme quel qu'il soit,
J'apporte la joie a qui donne
Et je la laisse a qui recoit.

And Shakspeare--

".... Mercy ... is twice bless'd,
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes."
_Merchant of Venice._--[TR.]

[180] Lacordaire. _Conferences de 1848._

[181] _Conferences de 1848_, p. 78.

[182] _La raison et le Christianisme_: twelve lectures on the existence
of God, one vol. 12mo. In the _Philosophie de la liberte_ (2 vols. 8vo.)
M. Secretan has set forth, in a severely scientific form, the arguments
of which the reader has just seen the oratorical expression from the pen
of Pere Lacordaire. This agreement is worth notice, the dates showing
that no communication was possible.

[183]

Je me couche sans peur,
Je m'endors sans frayeur,
Sans crainte je m'eveille.
Dieu qui soutient ma foi
Est toujours pres de moi,
Et jamais ne sommeille.

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