you, are the persons who stand at your side able to enhghten you. A good government in our day draws its force, not from the absolute and obstinate will of him who is at its head, but from his wisdom in selecting honest and intelligent ministers, who may prove faithful interpreters of the needs and requirements of the society they are set to govern. Now, passing by without comment your conduct with regard to the decisions of the General Assembly of French Bishops, and to the individual initiative of some of the most illustrious among them—witness the sad case of Mgr. Le Camus[1]—what is your criterion
- ↑ Mgr. Le Camus, late Bishop of La Rochelle, died suddenly of apoplexy in October, 1906. In the earlier part of that year he had published a pamphlet under the title "Tirer le bien du mal," in which, while adhering to the first Papal condemnation of the Separation Law, he spoke of separation as "un heureux affranchissement, au triple point de vue religieux, matériel, et social." In accordance with these ideas, he proposed to
