With Balmez, we reply: "But in recommending prudence to the people let us not disguise it under false doctrines--let us beware of calming the exasperation of misfortune by circulating errors subversive of all governments, of all society." (_European Civilisation_, Chap.
55.) Of men who shrink from investigating such questions, Balmez wrote: "I may be permitted to observe that their prudence is quite thrown away, that their foresight and precaution are of no avail.

Whether they investigate these questions or not, they _are_ investigated, agitated and decided, in a manner that we must deplore." (Ibid.Chap.

54.) Take with this Turner on France under the old _regime_ and the many and serious grievances of the people: "The Church, whose duty it was to inculcate justice and forbearance, was identified, in the minds of the people, with the Monarchy which they feared and detested." (_History of Philosophy_, Chap.

59.) The moral is that when injustice and evil are rampant, let us have no palliation, no weakness disguising itself as a virtue.

What we cannot at once resist, we can always repudiate.