nationibus mundi; una fides indita per Deum, una spes diffusa
per Spiritum Sanctum in cordibus credentium, una caritas nata in
omnibus, una voluntas, accensum unum desiderium, tradita una
oratio; ut omnes omnino ex diversis gentibus, diversis
conditionibus, diverso sexu, nobilitate, honestate, servitute
diversa, simul dicant uni Deo, et Patri omnium; Pater Noster qui
es, &c., sicut unum Patrem invocantes, ita unam santificationem
quærentes, unum regnum postulantes, unam adimpletionem
voluntatis ejus, sicut fit in coelo optantes; unum sibi panem
quotidianum dari precantes et omnibus dimitti debita."

To which other passages might be added, as, in fact, S. Agobard pursues
the one idea until he hunts it down to the one effect of sameness and
common antithesis. Should we say Lord Plunket had read these passages,
and is thereby convicted of eloquent plagiary? I say, No! Lauder then
equally convicted Milton of trespassing on the thoughts of others, by
somewhat apposite quotations from the classics. We are, in truth, too
much inclined to this. The little, who cannot raise themselves to the
stature of the great, are apt to strive after a socialist level, by
reducing all to one same standard--their own. Truth is common to all
ages, and will obtain utterance by the truthful and the eloquent
throughout all time.

S.H.

Athenæum, August 12.

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NOTES ON THE SECOND EDITION OF MR. CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK OF LONDON