Two years previously all France, one might say, had met in Paris to celebrate at the Sorbonne the completion of Berthelot's fifty years of intellectual labor. It was on this occasion that the foreign potentates sent their delegates and decorations to him. Every civilized country was represented at the festivities by its foremost men of letters and diplomats, while all the senators of France, the president of the republic, the members of his cabinet, and all the heads of the colleges were assembled to applaud the _master_ whose half a century of study and service had so greatly augmented the horizon of man and increased the light of the world. When this distinguished scientist was admitted into the French Academy, Jules Lemaitre, in his address of welcome, declared that Berthelot was the real creator of the modern industrial era, which had multiplied the resources of man a hundredfold. He called Berthelot the discoverer of modern chemistry, which has in so short a time transformed the face of the earth, and which holds the secret of the solution of the social and economic problems of the day. "'Chemistry" declares Berthelot, "'is a new gospel, which brings tidings of great power to mankind.'" "It will put an end to the cruel struggle of classes, and make of warlike politics, now one of the scourges of nations, a lost art. It will do this by placing within the reach of all an inexhaustible wealth of food and raiment, thereby curing man forever of the disease of discontent." "There are only two things worth living for," said M. Berthelot, in an address at the Palais de Trocadero before six thousand Frenchmen--"the love of truth and the love of one's fellows." That _love of truth_ opened for Joan the doors of the Catholic Church, shut against her five hundred years ago and it opened to Berthelot the doors of the Pantheon--the Temple of the Immortals! A final word. I have as much compassion and sympathy for the Catholics as I have for the martyred girl--indeed more, since they need more. Joan has been vindicated by the broader and more benign thought of this! age. The same serene and sweet power will transform the Catholic Church and make it one of the most progressive forces of our America. I have delivered this lecture to hasten that lovely day! [Illustration: 0042] End of Project Gutenberg's The Story of Joan of Arc, by M. M. Mangasarian