ll yet dot the civilized world. The hospice will
return higher up the scale, and the present use of the word
"hospitality" will be drowned in its pink tea, choked with
cheese-wafers, rescued from the nervous clutch of the managing mama, and
the machinations of the chaperone. A society built on the sands of
silliness must give way to the universal university, and the strong,
healthful, helpful, honest companionship and comradeship of men and
women prevail.

* * * * *

The objective point of the Bishop was the University of Paris.

Here in due time, after their lingering ride from Holland, the Bishop
and his secretary arrived. They settled down to literary work; and in
odd hours the beauty and wonder of Paris became familiar to Erasmus. The
immediate task completed, the Bishop proposed going home, and thought,
of course, his secretary was a fixture and would go with him. But
Erasmus had evolved ideas concerning his own worth. He had already
collected quite a little circle of pupils about him, and these he held
by his glowing personality. At this time the vow of poverty was looked
upon lightly. And anyway, poverty is a comparative term. There were
monks who always trudged afoot with staff and bag, but not so our
Erasmus. He was Bishop of the Exterior.

The Bishop of Cambray, on parting with Erasmus, thought so much of him
that he presented him with the horse he rode.

Erasmus used to take short excursions about Paris, taking with him a
student and often two, as servants or attendants. Teaching then was
mostly on an independent basis, each pupil picking his tutors and paying
them direct.

Among other pupils whom Erasmus had at Paris was a young Englishman by
the name of Lord Mountjoy. A great affection arose between these two,
and when Lord Mountjoy returned to England he was accompanied by
Erasmus.

At London, Erasmus met on absolute equality many of the learned men of
England. We hear of his dining at the house of the Lord Mayor of London,
and there meeting Sir Thomas More and crossing swords with that worthy
in wordy debate.

Erasmus seems to have carried the "New Humanism" into England. It has
been said that the world was discovered in Fourteen Hundred Ninety-two,
but Man was not discovered until Seventeen Hundred Seventy-six. This is
hardly literal truth, since in Fourteen Hundred Ninety-two, there was a
theologico-scientific party of young men in all of the European
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