Between them and her there are of course striking contrasts in appearance and in fortune.

They were entirely wanting in that charm which she never failed to exercise; and it is a fact that while they failed miserably she grew in strength and flowered in legend.

But it is the duty of the scientific mind to recognise common characteristics, proving identity of origin alike in the noblest individual and in the most wretched abortion of the same species.
[Footnote 84: Vol.

ii, Appendices ii and iii.] The free-thinkers of our day, imbued as they are, for the most part, with transcendentalism, refuse to recognise in Jeanne not merely that automatism which determines the acts of such a seeress, not only the influence of constant hallucination, but even the suggestions of the religious spirit.

What she achieved through saintliness and devoutness, they make her out to have accomplished by intelligent enthusiasm.