one time, can be helped in this way, such men do not, if need be, flinch from absolute self-effacement. Arnold von Winkelried was one of these. So was Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, in the fifth century, when the Vandals crossed over from Africa and invaded Italy. Of him we read in Johann von M�ller's Weltgeschichte (Bk. X., chap. 10) that “in order to ransom some of the prisoners, he had already disposed of all the church plate, his own and his friends' private property. Then, on seeing the anguish of a widow, whose only son was being carried off, he offered himself for servitude in the other's stead.

For whoever was of suitable age, and had not fallen by the sword, was taken captive to Carthage.”

There is, then, an enormous difference between character and character.