If a proclamation of some of these can remove it, I hope to make such a one in the hour of riper judgment, and after a more extensive survey.
Sad as are many features of the time, we have at least the satisfaction of feeling that if something true can be revealed, if something wise and kind shall be perseveringly tried, it stands a chance of nearer success than ever before; for much light has been let in at the windows of the world, and many dark nooks have been touched by a consoling ray.

The influence of such a ray I felt in visiting the School for Idiots, near Paris,--idiots, so called long time by the impatience of the crowd; yet there are really none such, but only beings so below the average standard, so partially organized, that it is difficult for them to learn or to sustain themselves.

I wept the whole time I was in this place a shower of sweet and bitter tears; of joy at what had been done, of grief for all that I and others possess and cannot impart to these little ones.

But patience, and the Father of All will give them all yet.

A good angel these of Paris have in their master.