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Here Il NAV AZ mass the per, Ia siacaulay
fEssay on sRanke) :: "Irreligion, accI.
dentally associated with philanthropy;
Itriumphed for. a time over religion. a &C,
cfdentally associated with political
and social abuses 80. The movement
went IN with increasing sneed 4 The
|frst generation NJ inc new sect had
nasse1 away The doctrines NJ Vol.
|taire were inherited and exaggerated
by successors who bore 10 him the
same relation which the Anabaptists
bore 70 Jnther Aracaulay is plainly
convinced with Alfred De M,lsset.
THAT the destructive work Of the
French Revolution Ia me work OF Vol.
|taire. -,.
Tho deIst Robespierre and the atne.
list Clootz worked hand In hand, as
lhal done yoltaire and Diderot In splte
of their different shades OF infidellty
tPhilosophism they called lt). AS soon
as the second generation OF the new
sect began to control the government
of France Its first work was to bring
the remains Of their noble ancestors,
voltaire and Rousseau. to Preserved
box" from which their Names could
easily see the whole drama which was
10 take pluce. The Pantheon, the des.
ecrated church Of st. Genevieve, was
chosen for that purpose. On July
10th. 1871. Voltaire's remains were
brought to their reserved seat IRON
their stolen grave In the Abbey OF Scel'
Heres i" all mortals provisioning
and perorating In the Pantheon. says
Carlyle: cars drawn by eight white
horses. goadsters in classical costume
with Rllets and. wheat.ears enough:
though the weather Is OF the wettest'
French Revolutlon-The Constit. Ill
|V1D.
In the following month comes the
turn OF Rousseau Evangelist Jean
Jacques says Carlylel: his remains
are brought from Ermenonville "and
processioned. with pomp with sensl.
bility, to the Pantheon OF Fatherland"
| (IbiD. .t.. t
In h,s "Testoment du Cure MeslIer"
voltoirc Ind eyprassed The wish ITO
he ahle TO hang the last of kings with
tho t,owe,s n the last Of nrIests." A
wish so elegantly EXPRESSED was by
tniicrot found worthy to be encased
lin two oleyondrlne verses md thus Il
has bann transmitted 10 posterity.
This elegant wish was yoltaire's own
commentary m his watch.word
"Ecr, sons rrnlome," Now let us SEQ
how th;s nroeramme was executed by
his descendants Let Nacaulay again
,eu us fEssav m Ranke>. "Down
went the old churca of France a."
Some Of It's priests purchased a main
tenance by separating themselves
from Rome. ss Some, rejoicing in
the new license, flung away their 81.
cred yestments and distinguished
themselves even In The .lncob'n club.
BY the excess Of their innrlenee and
rerocity. Others, more faithful to their
principles. we're bntchered by scores
without n trial, drowned. shot. hung
on lamp POSTS, Thousands fed from
1 their country. 1.-THE bust OF Marat
was substituted for The statues OF the
martyrs of Christianity. A prostitute.
seated on a chair Of state in the chan.
eel Of Notre Dame. received the alor.
alton Of thousands, who exclaimed
that, at length, for the first time, those
ancient Gothic arches had resoundel
with the accents Of truth" ri
Thu mass,cras o,,uded TO- date from
the ID Of Sent, 1892: the Feast Of the
colJess Reoson took place on Nov,
10Th ,1acarlov proceeds: "The
ch,rcbos, woro closed the bells were
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