“Mais, qui diable alloit-il faire dans cette galère!”
Christendom is gradually extricating itself from the ignorance, ferocity, andcrimes of the middle ages. It is no longer subject of boast, that the handwhich wields the sword, never held a pen, and men have long since ceased to beashamed of knowledge. The multiplied means of imparting principles and facts,and a more general diffusion of intelligence, have conduced to establishsounder ethics and juster practices, throughout the whole civilized world.Thus, he who admits the conviction, as hope declines with his years, that mandeteriorates, is probably as far from the truth, as the visionary who sees thedawn of a golden age, in the commencement of the nineteenth c