Every self-preserving instinct would have shrieked at such an infatuate immolation.

And can it be fated that the most advanced civilisation of the future shall needs have in it, as the first and chief element of its glory, the most barbarous of all the rituals of barbarismthe immolation of hecatombs which wail a muling human wail?

She accepted her dreary immolation in the convent, since she obeyed Abélard both as husband and as a spiritual father; but she would have left the convent and rejoined him had he demanded it, for marriage was to her more sacred than the veil.

Those of the one party, then, finding no proof to be had but that in testimony, and anxious to have all they candelighting too in a certain holy wilfulness of intellectual self-immolation, accept the testimony in the mass, and become Roman Catholics.

Did they think there would be human sacrificethe immolation of Oriental slaves upon the tomb?