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may not fail to be the seed of a juster and stronger and more reasonable faith, of a wider and higher and more imperishable church, than yet was ever founded by the passion and devotion of the single spirit of man. For lack of martyrs and confessors most assuredly we shall not fail. Cayenne, Lambessa, Ischia, Caserta, Spandau, Siberia, these are but the few first names that rise up as at random to remind us, within the memory of men who yet are not old, from how many a Golgotha the famous as the nameless recruits of their noble army have been led to bear their crosses up how many a Calvary. 'As the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable—And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of them,—of whom the world was not worthy,' and they gave their life for the world. For the world, we say, and not for any Czar or Kaiser; nor yet that evil might be cast out by evil, to make place for a third and more immedicable evil than itself. 'Credo in Revolutionem,' said once in our time, and in more than questionable Latin, a more than questionable servant of democracy; the same half unprofitable man of a perilous and hard-mouthed genius, whom Victor Hugo, if I rightly remember, is reported to have sometime charged with 'carrying a dried toadskin in his pocket.' In a more significant variation of as famous a Catholic formula, we may perhaps more reasonably assert as a radical principle of a creed well tested by sore experience:—'Extra Rempublicam nulla salus.' We have had enough and too much