The public was enraged, certainly, but helpless; yet not so helpless but that many awoke to a conviction that, since the inquisitors had resorted to terror for the conservation of the faith, they ought to be restrained by terror in their turn.

But it is not the only one which is clouding the issues of conservation in the public mind.

Self-conservation against threatened disturbances from without (it may be compared to resistance against pressure) is the only real change, and apparent change, the empirical changes of things, to be explained from this.

It stands as one people against the present enemy, and in its effort does not fail to give thought to race conservation for the future.

" Now Leo was the man for such a crisis, and seems to have been raised up to devise some new principle of conservation around which the stricken world might rally.

If our forests are to be saved for the future we must begin conservation at once.