"If Emerson goes to Hell, his presence there
will surely change the climate."

Yet when Mill ran for re-election he was defeated, it having leaked out
that he was an "infidel," since he upheld Charles Bradlaugh in his
position that the affirmation of a man who does not believe in the Bible
should be accepted as freely as the oath of one who does. In passing it
is worth while to note that the courts of Christendom have now accepted
the view of Bradlaugh and of Mill on this point.

The best resume of Mill's philosophy is to be found in Taine's "English
Literature," a fact to which Mill himself attested.

The dedication of "On Liberty," printed as a preface to this "Little
Journey," rivals in worth the wonderful little classic of Ernest Renan
to his sister, Henriette.

Mill died at Avignon in Eighteen Hundred Seventy-three, his last days
soothed by the tender ministrations of the daughter Helen. His body,
according to his wish, was buried in his wife's grave, and so the dust
of the lovers lies mingled.

PARNELL AND KITTY O'SHEA

For my own part I am confident as to the future of Ireland. Though
the horizon may now seem cloudy, I believe her people will survive
the present oppression, as they have survived many worse ones.
Although our progress may be slow, it will be sure. The time will
come when the people of England will admit once again that they have
been mistaken and have been deceived: that they have been led astray
as to the right way of governing a noble, a brave and an impulsive
people.

--_Charles Stewart Parnell_

[Illustration: CHARLES STEWART PARNELL]

Two hundred fifty men own one-third of the acreage of Ireland.

Two-thirds of Ireland is owned by two thousand men. In every other
civilized country will be found a large class of people known as peasant
proprietors, people who own small farms or a few acres which they call
home. In Ireland we find seven hundred thousand tenant-farmers, who with
their families represent a population of more than three million people.
These people depend upon the land for their subsistence, but they are
tenants-at-will. Four-fifths of the landowners of Ireland live in
England.

Lord Dufferin, late Governor-General of Canada, once said: "What is the
spectacle presented to us by Ireland? It is that of millions of people,
whose only occupation and dependence is agriculture, sinking their