IlKLKilOX IN THE LUE OF NATIONS. 69 



3Iachiuvelli is wrong, and liis disciples with him. Xo 

 Government c:in long stand supported on one side by 

 force, on tlio otlier by cunning. 'J'lie time will come 

 'wiien it will encounter one stronger and slirewder than 

 itself, and will find, too late, that Avhat preserveth and 

 "cxalteLli a nation"' is righteousness. 



And this is why the Catholic Ohurch has always 

 proclaimed that the laws of morality were laws not only 

 for private but for public life ; that the Ten Command- 

 ments of Moses and the Gospel of Jesus Christ were 

 made not only for individuals but for nations ; and that 

 citizens and monarchs, social rights and social powers, 

 hold alike of justice and of God. 



And this is why I, standing here, am right, whatever 

 timorous and complaining souls may think, in teaching 

 tliese truths of which the world has need. 



I am right in taking in my hands " the everlasting 

 Gospel," unfolding it in all its breadth, and crying 

 aloud, like the apocalyptic angel, to kings and peoples, 

 witliout respect of person, to all the dwellers upon earth, 

 liighteousness ! Ivighteousness I and again Righteous- 

 jiess ! 



[II. Patriotic Faith. To love and serve one's conutry, it h 

 needful to have faith in it, and this is inspired by religion.] 



The heart of man is so made that it loves ardently 

 and long only when it feels a breath of divine inspira- 

 tion in its love. This inspiration may be abused, but 

 there can be no true love without it. If I saw in my 

 country nothing but an institution of human contri 

 vance, a sort of social clock-work whose numberless 

 little wheels are ticketed off in the Bulletin of LaAvs 

 and set in motion by the myriad hands of the bureau- 

 cracy ; if I saw in it nothing but a patch of common 



