Show STUDENT LIFE peace —not war Science art invention and all that tends to develop the enter-prising'geni- us of a race give the larger inspiration when the battle flags are furled and armies are at rest 161 mense equestrian statue of bronze was erected representing the Emperor Justinian in the habit and armor of Achilles to perpetuate his name and fame as a military chieftain and conqueror But Justinian left after ages another and “Great captains with their guns and more enduring monument a work of drums peace not war Disturb our judgment for the hour “The vain titles of the victories of Rut at last quiet comes” says Gibbon “are crumbled into dust but the name of the legislator is inand the higher and better civilization scribed on a fair and everlasting monument Under his reign and by his care only possible in peace begins once more It is the work of the quiet men who have the civil jurisprudence was digested in made and expounded laws for the better the immortal works of the Code the Pangovernment of peoples and of those who dects and the Institutes the public reahave illumined the world with the light son of the Romans has been silently or of discovery distributing far and wide the studiously transferred into the domestic seeds of knowledge which has cleared institutions of Europe and the laws of the way for society to move The disJustinian still command the respect or coveries of the laws of gravitation of the obedience of independent nations” attraction of matter of electricity of Twelve centuries later another conlight heat and sound of evolution and queror made the world a vast military growth the principle of the circulation camp and of Europe a battlefield Naof the blood and of the prevention and poleon reconstructed history and the map cure of disease and the creation and exof Europe and with fire and sword erectpounding of systems of laws to enable ed a mighty despotism amid the wreck men and nations to attain the real objects of dynasties and the crash of thrones of their existence have done more for “Kings were his people and nations were the improvement and uplifting of the his outposts” but now in the language human family than all the war and of Lord Roseberry in his study of the bloodshed since the beginning of time conqueror’s career: The work and names of Copernicus Kep-pl“The only trace of his reign visible in Herschell Bacon Newton Tyndall Europe is the Bemadotte dynasty in Sweden which was not the direct work Huxley Haekle Danvin Harvey Jen-nof conquest or indeed the direct work Stephenson Morse Edison Marconi Mansfield and Marshall and others of Napoleon All that of this kind he of the long line of peaceful men who deplanned and fashioned passed away with voted their lives to the giving of law him But the Code remains and proand the discovery of truth to the world foundly affects the character of the nawill remain in living memory through tion as well as the other races to which the ages when the remembrance of conit has been extended” Yes the Code Napoleon does remain a quests and conquerors shall have long monument to a great work of peace and passed away In the great square before the church today aids to give the law to the people of one of the states of this Union pf St Sophia at Constantinople an im Jus-tinnia- er er n” |