SPEECH BEFORE THE PEACE LEAGUE. 7 



mutter in the splieiv of tlie useful, as \ho line arts arc 

 their last utterance in the sphere of the beaut ifiil. And 

 Avlien farmer and artisan have done tlieir work, then 

 commerce lifts her broad wings, her sails fill, her engines 

 hiss and throb, lier ships plough tlie sea, her liery chariots 

 traverse the land, the arteries of nations open in every 

 direction, that the blood of a common civilization, the 

 vivifying sap of the same moral ideas and the same 

 material products, may permeate all mankind. And 

 the word of Saint Paul is fullilled, which was not made 

 known before tliQ coming of Christianity, that supreme 

 inspirer of great things, Gentes esse cohœredes, "that 

 the nations should be fellow-heirs." 



Xow, Ladies and Gentlemen, what is it but peace, that 

 stands, with Christianity, at the beginning and at the 

 end of all these things ? Peace as origin and result ; 

 peace always and everywhere ! Woe, woe, if the war- 

 trumpet sounds, if the arms of laborers in field and 

 workshop are turned violently from their proper object, 

 if the sails of the merchant-ships are suddenly furled, 

 and if, alike by land and sea, instead of the glad din of 

 labor, we hear only the fearful shock of destruction ! 

 [General signs of aj)2^roi'al] Away with these hateful 

 images ! Let us pause a moment before tAvo great spec- 

 tacles of the passing hour. 



You are Christians. I also am a Christian, and a 

 priest, and a monk. But neither in the Christian 

 religion, nor in these glorious rags of the monastic 

 habit, nor in the seclusion of cloister and temple, has 

 it been in my wish, nor in my power, to sever myself 

 from interest in the things of earth! [Good! good!] 

 Accordingly, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with genuine 

 emotion, that in behalf of you all, I hail these new 

 triumphs of human toil and genius ! 



