she is; not for nothing that the free individualism of a busy mul-
titude, the humble traders of a fugitive people, snatching the
New World from feudalism and bigotry, from Philip II. and
Louis XIV., from Menendez and Montcalm, from the Jesuit and
the Inquisition, from Torquemada, and from Richelieu, to make
it the land of the Reformation and the Republic of Christianity
and of Peace. "Let us auspicate all our proceedings in Amer-
ica," said Edmund Burke, "with the old Church cry, Sursum
corda!» But it is for America to live up to the spirit of such
words, not merely to quote them with proud enthusiasm.
have heard of—

"New times, new climes, new lands, new men, but still
The same old tears, old crimes, and oldest ill."

We

Let her

It is for America to falsify the cynical foreboding. take her place side by side with England in the very van of freedom and of progress, united by a common language, by common blood, by common measures, by common interests, by a common history, by common hopes; united by the common glory of great men, of which this great temple of silence and reconciliation is the richest shrine. Be it the steadfast purpose of the two peoples who are one people to show all the world not only the magnificent spectacle of human happiness, but the still more magnificent spectacle of two peoples which are one people, loving righteousness and hating iniquity, inflexibly faithful to the principles of eternal justice which are the unchanging laws of God.

FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE
FÉNELON

(1651-1715)

HE author of 'Telemachus,' and the rival of Bossuet, Fénelon is remembered for the limpid purity of his language and the elevation of his views of life, rather than for boldness and originality. As a man, he has been loved in his lifetime and ever since, for his unworldliness and gentleness. As an orator, he has a style of his own hardly approached by any one else. « What cultivated man," says Matthews, "needs to be told of the sweet persuasions that dwelt upon the tongue of the swan of Cambray ?»

Fénelon was born August 6th, 1651, of a noble family, in Périgord. Always delicate and sensitive, he was greatly loved by his father, Count Pons de Salignac, who sent him first to the college at Cahors and afterwards to Paris, that he might have the best possible education. He showed his genius at an early age. It is said that at fifteen he preached a sermon which astonished and delighted his hearers. After entering the priesthood, he spent ten years as superior of the community of "Nouvelles Catholiques," an order devoted to the education of women. About this time he wrote his celebrated work, 'The Education of Young Girls,' and his 'Refutation of Malebranche. In 1685 he was sent as a missionary into districts disturbed by the religious persecutions of Louis XIV. The work he did in them was creditable, though unsatisfactory to his superior, the Archbishop of Paris.

In 1689 he was made tutor to the Dauphin, for whom he wrote his most celebrated work, Telemachus,' a romance of the most delightful improbability, concerning which it has been asked with reason how its author could conceive the possibility of such a paragon as 'Telemachus' originating in the family of a liar so practiced, an adventurer so unscrupulous, as Ulysses boasted of being. That, however, did not concern Fénelon at all. He intended the book for the best possible sermon written in the best possible French, and succeeded so well in realizing his intention that it has outlasted the throne of the Bourbons whom he hoped by it to persuade to virtue.

In 1695 the King nominated Fénelon for the Archbishopric of Cambray, and at about the same time his celebrated controversy with

FENELON.

After the Portrait Designed by Gleyre.