It had proclaimed the three words which 2000 years afterwards was re-echoed by French philosophy--liberty, equality, fraternity--amongst mankind.

But it had for a time hidden this idea in the recesses of the Christian heart.

As yet too weak to attack civil laws, it had said to the powers--"I leave you still for a short space of time possession of the political world, confining myself to the moral world.

Continue if you can to enchain, class, keep in bondage, degrade the people, I am engaged in the emancipation of souls.

I shall occupy 2000 years, perchance, in renewing men's minds before I become apparent in human institutions.