(RATHER ZAHM, PRIEST AND SCIENTIST” 227 
“The author has every qualification for making such a 
journey as he made and then for writing about it. He 1s 
an extraordinarily hardy man, this gentle, quiet traveler. 
He has that sweetness of nature which inspires in others 
the same good feeling he himself evinces toward them ; 
he loves rivers and forests, mountains and plains, and 
broad highways and dim wood trails, and he has a wide 
and intimate acquaintance with science, with history and 
above all with literature. He acted as an ambassador, and 
his sympathy and appretiation of the people whom he 
met earned for him thoughtful and unwearied kindness in 
return and admirably fitted him, while on his journey, to 
interpret our nation to those among whom be traveled 
and now admirably fit him to interpret them in return to 
us. His trip is told so entertainingly that [ do not recall 
any similar book dealing with South America so well worth 
reading. In closing, I can only repeat that this is a delight- 
ful book from every standpoint. It is an especially delight- 
ful book for Americans, because throughout it Doctor 
Mozans (Father Zahm) shows that he is so thoroughly 
vood an American, so imbued with what is best in our na- 
tional spirit and with the thoughts and aspirations of 
our greatest statesmen and writers, and indeed of all who 
have expressed the soul of our people. ” 
Nommé par Léon XIII docteur en philosophie en 1895, 
le P. Zahm était membre de la Société française de Phy- 
sique, de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles, et de l’Arcadia 
romaine. 
Naturellement, ce fut à sa Congrégation que le P. Zahm 
se rendit le plus utile. Homme à vue large, et, comme on 
disait, un quart de siècle en avant de son temps, il put voir 
pourtant se réaliser beaucoup de ses idées. Homme d'énergie 
et d'initiative, il sut unir la prudence au zèle. 
