"The axe, the sword, and the pike," he says, "belonged to ages when the physical triumphed over the intellectual. The age of reason and of mental power has begun, and truth and argument are the weapons with which the bad must be conquered, and the good armed for battle. The thunder of a nation's voice is worth the roar of a thousand cannon; and knowledge, and conscience, and right, are arms which no armies can withstand." FOOTNOTES [Footnote 1: This word is usually wrongly written _ærie_, as if derived from _aer_ or _air_, but I am convinced it comes from the German word _ey_, an egg.] [Footnote 2: These fish in the Murrumbidgee and other rivers sometimes reach the weight of a hundred or a hundred and twenty pounds. They are evidently genuine perch, although the colonists call them river cod.] [Footnote 3: The little history of a life here referred to, may be given to the public at a future period, as it is neither uninteresting nor uninstructive; but, for various reasons, it must not be printed at present.] THE END. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Convict, by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James