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the eve of the events of 18dl, was not consistent with his previ- 

 ous record. Horror of demagogisni inclined liini for the moment 

 toward Cesarism ; but how grandly has he recovered himself 

 from this defection ! With what magnificent eloquence he has 

 launched his thunderbolts against absolutism and all its props, 

 most of all against those which were nearest to himself, and 

 which dishonored Catholicism by their unworthy alliance ! A 

 sincere Christian, always impassioned and vehement, he has re- 

 turned to his true flag, and we shall sec with what courage he 

 has known how to flout it in the face of the most obstinate pre- 

 judices. The Anglo-Saxon race has no more enthusiastic or 

 enlightened admirer than this Catholic nobleman. 



The third leader of the Liberal-Catholic" party in 1852 was a 

 young professor of the Sorbonne, M. Frédéric Ozanam, snatched 

 away from a most brilliant career by consumption before he was 

 forty j'cars of age. lie had the unspeakable advantage of being 

 in constant relation with the youth of the university by means of 

 his course of instruction in foreign literature, rich, as it was, in 

 research and eloquence. At the same time, he was one of the 

 founders of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, — a society of 

 laymen, designed for the visitation of the poor, and also to form 

 among young Catholics a bond of active charity. Ozanam united 

 the finest endowments of intellect with admirable piety. Already 

 sick and emaciated, he was seen climbing the staircases of tene- 

 ment houses to carry to the poor both material aid and words of 

 .sympathy. Owing to his influence, the association had rapidly 

 increased, and from the start was animated by the purest charity. 

 Ozanam possessed all the most generous passions of youth, and, 

 foremost of all, the love of liberty. He, too, dreamed of l)ringing 

 about an alliance between his most cherished belief in humanity 

 and his religious faith. This thought was the very soul of his 

 teaching, which achieved a very distinguished success at the 

 Sorbonne by the soundness of its erudition, and the somewhat 

 feverish brilliancy of an eloquence which was wearing away his 

 life. He used some expressions of extraordinary boldness, such 

 as this : " There are some persons who believe in their God only 



