There is more sin in the HEARTS and MINDS of these poor, wretched, ill-mated people than in the sinks of Europe.

There is some hope for the vicious.

Intelligence and common-sense will wean them from it.

But there is no hope for the people whose lives from the cradle to the grave are drab and empty and sordid and wretched." As O'Connell uttered this terrible arraignment of the old order of protecting society by early and indiscriminate marriages, it seemed as if the mantle of some modern prophet had fallen on him.

He had struck at the real keynote of Ireland's misery to-day.