f vague obscurity
which hides his brilliance from the world apt to reckon him a mere
scoffer and destroyer of beliefs. He has more profound faith perhaps
than many who took up the sword to defend religion, but he covered his
spirit of tolerance with many cloaks of mockery, ashamed to be a hero
in conventional trappings, eager to win recognition for his wit rather
than immortality for the courage of the convictions he so firmly held.

Not of equal stature are the heroes looming through the curtain Fate
drops before each scene of the world's drama when another play begins.
There were selfish aims sometimes in the breasts of the patriotic,
worldly ambitions in the Reformers, the lust of persecution {232} in
the Saints. Yet these great protagonists of history are easy to
distinguish among the crowd of actors who have played their parts.
Their words grip the attention, their actions are fraught with real
significance, and it is they who win applause when the play is at an
end.

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Index

Aboukir, 175, 177
Aboukir Bay, 174
Acre, 175, 177
Addison, 158
Ajaccio, 168, 171
Albizzi, Rinaldo degli, 31
Albizzi, the, 30, 31
Aldgonde, Sainte, 92
Alencon, Prince, 109
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 217, 218, 219, 220, 225
Alexander III, Emperor of Russia, 225
Alexander, Emperor of Russia, 178
Alexander of Parma, 97
Alexandria, 174
Alexis, 137, 138, 144
Alfonso of Naples, 32
Alighieri, Durante, 21
Alma, Battle of, 209
Alps, the, 207
Alsace, Province of, 215
Alva, Duke of, 82, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93
Amelia, Daughter of George I, 148
America, discovery of, 40
Amiens, Treaty of, 176
Amsterdam, 93, 139
_Anna Karenina_, 221
Angelico, Fra, 31
Angelo, Michael, 127
Angouleme, Duchess of, 180
Anita, wife of Garibaldi, 197
Anjou, 18, 45, 106, 111
Anjou, Duke of, 97, 98
Anna of Saxony, Princess, 80
Anne of Austria, 91, 118, 139
Anthony of Bourbon, 103
Antwerp, 86, 91, 95, 98
_Apostolato, Popolare_, the, 191
Apraxin, Admiral, 142
Aragon, Prince of, 18
Archangel, 138
Arezzo, 22
Aristotle, 16
Armand Jean Duplessis, 116, 117
Arouet, Francois Marie (see Voltaire)
Arques, Battlefield, 116
_Arrabiati_, the, 49
Artois, Count of, 180
Assisi, 14
Athens, Duke of, 30
Auerstaedt, Battle of, 178
Augsburg, 56, 61, 71
Augustine, Saint, 53
Augustus, King of Poland, 142, 149
Augustus, William, 149
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