The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-03-29
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
INV ORLEANS, SUNDAY MARCH 20. 1874.

ain the meantime, listen farther" added
Paulus. "wkat would the divine being who
In thus expected, were he in this room, deem
Of $his transaction before our eyes You have
heard tho steward's account of the horse
Eejsnus you have heard Ciaudius's allusion
to Yedius Pollio's lampreys. Now, you are q
wise, witty, and eloquent person, and You can
correct me If / say wropg-in what is the
man whom tho horse Sejanus, for instance,
throws and tears to pieces better than the
horsef In what is the man whom tho lamp
reys eat better than the lampreys 7, say
the horse and the lampreys are better
than the man, if mere power be thing
more to DO esteemed and honored than what s
right, and just and honorable, and estimable;
for the lampreys and tho horse possess the
greater might most Individually, in the cases
mentioned. The elephant is stronger than
wa. tho hound Is swifter, the raven lives mncb
longer. Either the more power to do thing
deserves my esteem more than any other OBJ
ject or copsideration, and, therefore, whoever
can trampie down his fellow men, and crafty
lives, their safety. their happiness, their rea-
sonable free-will, is moro estimable than he
who is just, truthful, kind, generous, and no.
ble-either, soy, the man who is strong
against his fellows 10 more good than he who
10 good-and the words justice, right, gentle
mess, humanity, honor, keeping faith in prom
isos, pity for poor little women who are op-
pressed and brutally used, virtue, and such
neises made by my tongue against my palate,
express nothing that can be understood, moth
ing in which any mind can find any meaning
either, I again say, the lampreys and the
Sejan horse are more to be esteemed, and
valued, and loved than my sister and my
mother, or it is not true that the mere power of
Tiberius combined with the british inclina-
tion to do thing, terminates the question
whether it Ia o right to do it. The moment /
like to do any thing, if can do it, it is neces-
sarily right that should do it 7 The moment
two persons have n difference it is right for
either of them, and equally right for each of
them, to murder the otherf But if it tho
intention of this great being, this god who is
expected to appear Immediately among u.s.
that we should be dependent upon each other,
each doing for the other what the other cannot
do for himself-and I am sure of it-then it
win please him, Dion, if consider what is
helpful and just and generous. Or am
wrongf Is virtue q dream Are contrary
contrary things in the same cases equally
beautiful
care my british instincts or inclinations,
which vary as things vary round me, my only
laws Is each of US intended by this great
being TO be at war with oil the rest to regard
She positive power each of US may have as our
sole restriction7 to destroy and injure all the
others by whom we could be served, if we
Ypald for our parts also serve and helps And
must women, for instance. being the weaker,
DO brutally used Tell me, Dion, will it please
thin great being if I try to render service to
my fellow-mep, who must have tho same natu-
raj claims to his consideration as havef or
does he wish me to hurt them and them to
hurt me, according as We may each have the
powerf Is there nothing higher in q man than
his external power of actioni Answer-you
are philosopher" ~
The oountenanoe Of Dion blazed for one in
slant, as il the light of D passing torch had
been shed upon o mirror, and then resumed
the less vivid effulgence Of that permanent In
telleotual beauty which was it's ordinary
Characteristic. He replied:
EAU tho philosophy that ever was taught
or thought could not lead you to truer consul
sions."
Then" returned Paulus, az come back with
me 70 the other end of the roomi"
"BeniRna," said Paulus, "your kindness to
NY sister and mother, and your natural
prObity, had something, think, to do with
beginning this trouble in which you and your
intended find yourselves. As you were not
unmindfnl of us, it Is but right that We should
not be unmiudful of you. Tberius permits
any friend of Claudius the slave to DO q SUBJ
ssitute in breaking the horse sejanus and
Claudfus is to have his freedom and fifty
thousand sctterces, and to marry you, whom
zee TO be good, houorable-hearted girl, all
the same rs If he had complied with the terms
in person. This was thoughtful and, sup
Pese, generous of Tiberius C@sar."
"Would any of those youths who hear me, ;,
added no turning round. "like to break tn
Ane,lOOkipg steed at the games, before all the
people, instead of Claudius Z"
No one replied.
at will DO distinguished act" persisted
h.
Dead silence still.
aThen will do it myself" he said, sIMapis.