An inland voyage, and Travels with a donkey . r on very quiet terms; and there was even anexchange of hospitalities between households thus doublyseparated. Black Camisard and V.^hite Camisard, militia-man and Miquelet and dragoon, Protestant prophet andCatholic cadet of the White Cross, they had all beensabring and shooting, burning, pillaging, and murdering,their hearts hot with indignant passion ; and here, after ahundred and seventy years, Protestant is still Protestant,Catholic still Catholic, in mutual toleration and mildamity of life. But the race of man, like that indomitable The Count
An inland voyage, and Travels with a donkey . r on very quiet terms; and there was even anexchange of hospitalities between households thus doublyseparated. Black Camisard and V.^hite Camisard, militia-man and Miquelet and dragoon, Protestant prophet andCatholic cadet of the White Cross, they had all beensabring and shooting, burning, pillaging, and murdering,their hearts hot with indignant passion ; and here, after ahundred and seventy years, Protestant is still Protestant,Catholic still Catholic, in mutual toleration and mildamity of life. But the race of man, like that indomitable The Country of the Camlsards iii nature whence it sprang, has medicating virtues of itsown; the years and seasons bring various harvests; thesun returns after the rain; and mankind outlives secularanimosities, as a single man awakens from the passions ofa day. We judge our ancestors from a more divine posi-tion; and the dust being a little laid with several cen-turies, we can see both sides adorned with human virtuesand fighting with a show of The Market Place at Le Puy I have never thought it easy to be just, and find itdaily even harder than I thought. I own I met theseProtestants with delight and a sense of coming home. Iwas accustomed to speak their language, in another anddeeper sense of the word than that which distinguishesbetween French and English; for the true babel is adivergence upon morals. And hence I could hold morefree communication with the Protestants, and judgethem more justly, than the Catholics. Father ApoUinaris 112 Travels with a Donkey may pair off with my mountain Plymouth Brother as twoguileless and devout old men; yet I ask myself if I hadas ready a feeling for the virtues of the Trappist; or hadI been a Catholic, if I should have felt so warmly to thedissenter of La Vernede. With the first I was on terms ofmere forbearance; but with the other, although only ona misunderstanding and by keeping on selected points,it was still possible to hold converse a
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