240 IMMORTAL HONOUR DUE TO ITS DISCOVERERS. 



these men been great warriors, and had each of them 

 slain his tens of thousands everybody would have 

 heard of them. It would then have appeared ignorant 

 not to know such illustrious names. But as each has 

 merely saved his tens of thousands of human lives 

 the world has forgotten them! and few, very few, 

 are aware that such humble individuals have ever ex- 

 isted. Their names, we might almost say, have passed 

 with their spirits, to that land where all things are 

 forgotten. On the other hand many a statue has been 

 raised to commemorate the supposed virtues of men 

 whose names deserved far less than theirs to live for 

 ever in the grateful remembrance, not merely of every 

 Frenchman, but of mankind in general. * 



* We have made inquiries into this matter, and have been informed 

 that there is a bust of Pelletier in existence in Paris, but we understand 

 that unfortunately there is no memorial of Caventou. 



