creed with creed is what the world has been inces-
santly witnessing ever since man came into existence.
We must not allow ourselves to think that the
history of these large movements is uninteresting
because it has not the personal charm of individual
acts of heroism. In the devotion of countless un-
noticed men and women during the piteous epoch of
martyrdom at Cordova there was perhaps more real
heroism than in the impetuous deeds of chivalry
displayed by rude warriors on the battle-field. It is
much easier to be brave in hot blood than to endure
the alarms and sufferings of long imprisonment, to
look forward with undaunted courage to the day of
execution, and keep a firm heart through it all. The
Christian martyrs were misguided, they threw away
their lives without cause; but their courage is as
worthy of admiration as their wisdom is to be pitied.
Flora was as real a heroine as if she had sacrificed
herself for a worthy sake. Eulogius, with all his
bigotry, was of the true hero's mould. And in all
these great movements of race or faith there are
numberless acts of devotion and fortitude which,
though they may escape the eye of the historian, call
for as much resolution and endurance as the most
brilliant exploits of the soldier. It is often in the
little acts of heroism that the hardest duties of man-
kind are found; and in the conflicts between large
bodies of people there are endless opportunities for
their exercise.

It is much easier to realize heroic character in a
person than in a whole people or even a city; and
we are now coming to the career of a man who ap-

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