resolved itself into a perfect harmony.” _Cauchy_ (died 1857) was a man of most extraordinary genius, whose creative genius knew how to discover new paths everywhere, and almost at every weekly meeting of the Paris Academy _Cauchy_ had something new to offer. In addition he was a dutiful Catholic, and a member of St. Vincent’s Society. When, shortly before the February revolution, an onslaught upon the Jesuit schools was made, he defended them in two pamphlets. One of them contains the following confession of faith: “I am a Christian, that is, I believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, with _Tycho __ Brahe_, _Copernicus_, _Descartes_, _Newton_, _Fermat_, _Leibnitz_, _Pascal_, _Grimaldi_, _Euler_, _Guldin_, _Boscovich_, _Gerdil_; with all great astronomers, all great physicists, all great mathematicians of past centuries. I am also a Catholic, with the majority of them, and if asked for my reasons, I would enumerate them readily. By them it would be made clear that my conviction is not the result of inherited prejudices, but of profound inquiry. I am a sincere Catholic, as _Corneille_, _Racine_, _La Bruyère_, _Bossuet_, _Bourdaloue_, _Fénelon_ were, and such as were and still are a large portion of the most eminent men of our times, among them those who have achieved most in the exact sciences, in philosophy and literature, and who have most prominently adorned our Academy” (_Valson_, Vie de Cauchy, I, 173). When near death, and told that the priest would bring the Holy Sacrament, he ordered the finest flowers of his garden used in the reception of the Lord.