10 DISCOURSES OF FATHER HYACINTHE. 



Thank yon for this applause ! It comes from your 

 hearts, audit is intended for these divine hooks! In 

 the name of these two books, I accept it. I accept it 

 also in the name of those sincere men who group them- 

 selves about these books, in Europe and America. It 

 is a most palpable fact that there is no room in the 

 daylight of the civilized world except for these three 

 religious communions, Catholicism, Protestantism, and 

 Judaism ! [Renewed ap2)Iause.'] 



The want of a peace catechism has been spoken of 

 with regret. AYe have one. Something more detailed 

 in form, or more appropriate to our special wants, may 

 be desirable, but I must assert that the catechism is 

 already made. You need but carry the decalogue to 

 its conclusions. You need but apply to nations the 

 principles of individual morality, and abolish that 

 refuge of lies — one rule for private life, and another for 

 public life. [ Good ! good .^] 



" Thou shalt not kill," says the everlasting law. 

 But does it only condemn the cowardly and cruel 

 wretch who skulks behind his victim and plunges a 

 dagger into his heart, or blows out his brains with a 

 pistol ? Is murder no longer a crime when it is com- 

 mitted on a great scale, and is the act of a i^rince or 

 of a deliberative assembly? What! think you that 

 without breaking God's law, without offending human 

 conscience, without branding on your forehead the 

 mark of Cain, without heaping burning coals on your 

 liead — think you that you can lay open to the gaze of 

 history tliose vast fields of carnage, and there, for the 

 gratification of your Avhim or the accomplishment of 

 your design, mow down your fellow-creatures with 

 grape-shot by the liundrcd-thousaiul ? Cain ! Cain 

 where is Abel thy brother? [General (tjij)l((i(sc.\ 



