Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . phyof non-resistance and self-abnegation. Withserene confidence he left the future in thehands of eternal justice, and insisted that the moral regeneration of Poland must precede her political re-estab-lishment. In all his works this note of lofty morality is struck, andChristianity is put forward as the only reconciling power betweenconflicting forces. Sigismund Krasinski was born at Paris on February 19th, father. Count Vincent Krasinski, was an adjutant of Napoleons:when the hopes of Poland were shattered by the abdicatio
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . phyof non-resistance and self-abnegation. Withserene confidence he left the future in thehands of eternal justice, and insisted that the moral regeneration of Poland must precede her political re-estab-lishment. In all his works this note of lofty morality is struck, andChristianity is put forward as the only reconciling power betweenconflicting forces. Sigismund Krasinski was born at Paris on February 19th, father. Count Vincent Krasinski, was an adjutant of Napoleons:when the hopes of Poland were shattered by the abdication of theEmperor, Krasinski, acting imder orders from the Czar, returned withhis family to Warsaw. Their home was the centre to which flockedall the eminent men in literary and political life. In this circleyoung Krasinski grew up, and the most loving care was bestowedupon his education. At the age of fourteen he wrote two novels inthe style of his favorite author, Walter Scott; but his literary ambi-tion was not encouraged, and he was destined for the Sigismund Krasinski 8736 SIGISMUXD KRASINSKI It was about this time that the crisis came which afifected hiswhole career. The leaders who in 1825 conspired against the Rus-sian government were brought to trial in Warsaw; and from allquarters of Europe the Polish members of the high tribunal hastenedto the -capital to give their votes for their compatriots. CountKrasinski was the only Pole that cast a vote in the Russian relations between father and son remained cordial, and the poetlived to see his fathers appointment to the governorship of Polandreceived with approbation by his countrymen; but from the ignominyof his fathers act he never recovered. His only reference to it isin the touching appeal to Poland with which his weird vision entitled* Temptation * ends. Krasinskis works were all published anony-mously or under assumed names; and it was years before the admir-ing people learned the true name of the ins
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