James J. Walsh

THE THIRTEENTH
GREATEST OF CENTURIES

Acting Dean and Professor of the History of Medicine and of Nervous Diseases, Fordham University School of Medicine; Professor of Physiological Psychology at St. Francis Xavier's and Cathedral Colleges, New York
New York, 1907
To Right Rev. Monsignor M. J. Lavelle,
Rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, Sometime President of the Catholic Summer School, to whose fatherly patronage this book is largely due, and without whose constant encouragement it would not have been completed, it is respectfully and affectionately dedicated by the author.


PROEMIUM

EPIMETHEUS

WAKE again, Teutonic Father-ages,
Speak again, beloved primeval creeds;
Flash ancestral spirit from your pages,
Wake the greedy age to noble deeds.
Ye who built the churches where we worship,
Ye who framed the laws by which we move,
Fathers, long belied, and long forsaken,
Oh, forgive the children of your love!

PROMETHEUS

There will we find laws which shall interpret,
Through the simpler past, existing life;
Delving up from mines and fairy caverns
Charmed blades to cut the age's strife.

Rev. Charles Kingsley
The Saints' Tragedy