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Show DEATH 01' IIKNAX. A DISPATCH In Haturday'a Knvs Irlilly announced thu aerloui Illness o( Jotepli I'.moit Itenan, nnd foro. hadoweil his eurly deralie aa n con-olualon con-olualon of tho phyilolana In churgu. Thu latti r'a Judgment proved to be correct; cor-rect; tho great theologian, orlentallit and philologist yielded up bli Immortal Immor-tal part )rturday, thu cause, of death being congestion of tho lungs with )iupittutlo affection of the heart. Itenan wna born In 1823 at Trrguler, Trance, He eirly develo) wl I ntellvctual miallllia of n high order, and alter n prrjaratory atogo of education ut tho baud! of jrMtawai loot to thu lemtn-ary lemtn-ary ol Abtni Uupnnloup at l'arli, tolw graduated In tho ministry. He later coni)letrd hl philo0hlcal ttudlea at Issy, nnd from tbero went to St. Bulplce. Ills, huwever, proved to be a line of Inatrucilon leading lo different tetulli than wm Intended or e'xitol by his Instructor!, hla thought! nud cipref tlona (illuming n rnngu of freedom free-dom nnd lllght at times wholly Incompatible Incom-patible nud nt nearly all tlnuanot lu I erfect harmony with ittlct orthodoxy, Ho early beoamo mi author nnd eoou acipilied dlatlnctlou; editorial pursulta also occupied u portion ol hla time, hu having fouuded la IMcrte do I enter ' "Mbi rly 1 1 Tnlnk " ml kwimi rr -thuuglil), In 1SH. rha,.i Ihuwnrk which attracted the greatest attention o( all bis productions, was a eompnra-lively eompnra-lively recent one I'm tla Jttut, ('Tho lilfe of Jesus.") rhla book created aomtllilng of a commotion throughout the Inlelleitual worll; It deLlol the divinity of tho Hatlornml Iriated lllm almply at n man if unusual un-usual and lilloaopblcal chtracterislkT, of good general disposition and deportment, deport-ment, but not entirely above lomo of thu mortal Meaknessii. It I -trhapt fair In lummlng up Ilrniu'j general character, to place hliiiamjug the Intillcctual glints el the ?e, oihi of thoso wheia acu!ri-mentssrrj acu!ri-mentssrrj the rwullof a reliance upon the merely sensuot Impreesluni of thn mind and In wlilcli the soul take but llttlo part when It takia any art at all. In brief, he led tho van of thu molern eidiool ol freo Nought, or agnoitlolim as It li more recently tcrmid, an I gave us In hli wonderful develotmeuti ol Intellectual power a complete exemplification exem-plification ef the mltid ol a philosopher, tho training of n Jesuit nnd tho Instincts In-stincts of an luYldcl united lu one and theinmo Ixlng. |
