84 DISCOURSES OF FATHER IÎYACINTHE. 



History, too, v/ill define better than it has been wont 

 to do the boundaries between civilization and barbarism. 

 I made a mistake, some time ago, speaking on this sub- 

 ject before another audience in Belgium. I attempted 

 to define these limits, looking for them too exclusively 

 from the religious point of view. Said I, " The Rubicon 

 wiiich one cannot cross without falling into barbarism 

 is baptism. The baptized nations (whether Catholic or 

 not, they are at least Christian) are the kernel of civili- 

 zation ; the unbaptized nations are the vast zone of 

 barbarism." ... But history will say that the reign 

 of civilization prevails throughout the whole domain of 

 earth which acknowledges the authority of that axiom 

 of international justice. Right makes Might. And as 

 for barbarism, its empire begins with the empire of that 

 other maxim, ]\Iight makes Right. 



Part Third. — The llcliglous Bond. 



[I. International law establishes between nations a society 

 which is real, but v/ithout positive organization. Father Hya- 

 cinthe affirms that the outward and visible bond which is want- 

 ing to this society may be supplied by the universal religious 

 society — in other words, by the Catholic Church.] 



One does not easily lay off the sentiments of early 

 life. As for myself, I acknowledge myself faithful to 

 the dream of my boyhood. Even noAV I want to see 

 with my eyes and touch witli my heart tlie unity of 

 my race, organized and living on tlie earth. I fight 

 against the illusions of the humanitarians, but I love 

 and serve the great truth which they pervert. 



[Father Hyacinthe observed thai just as domestic societies are 

 united, not by a ])ond of tlic same order with themselves, but 

 by the bond of the political order, so llie various political so- 



