From the extremities of the intelligent world, the peoples fixed their eyes upon this peak, from which has shone the human mind.

When dark night suddenly enveloped them, they heard issuing from that height a mighty voice, which spoke to them in the darkness.

_Admonet et magna testatur voce per umbras._ A voice which all at once, when the hour had come, like the cockcrow announcing the dawn, like the cry of the eagle hailing the sun, resounded like a clarion of war, or like the trumpet of judgment, and brought to their feet once more, awe-inspiring, waving their winding-sheets, seeking swords in their tombs, all those heroic dead nations,--Poland, Hungary, Italy! Then, at that voice of France, the glorious sky of the future opened; old despotisms, blinded and in fear, hid their heads in the nether darkness, and there, her feet upon the clouds, her forehead among the stars, a sword flashing in her hand, her mighty wings outspread in the azure depths, one saw Liberty appear, the archangel of the nations.
V INFLUENCE OF ORATORY This tribune was the terror of every tyranny and fanaticism, it was the hope of every one who was oppressed under Heaven.

Whoever placed his foot upon that height, felt distinctly the pulsations of the great heart of mankind.

There, providing he was a man of earnest purpose, his soul swelled within him, and shone without.