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fired with the hope of political and social eman- cipation. Abroad he sought alliance with the French Republic -- the incarnation of the politic- al, social, and religious unrest and revolution of the age, and in Great Britain he formed alliance with the 'Sassenach' reformers who were conspiring to overthrow the English monarchy. ... Even some of the more sympathetic of his panegyr- ists do not seem to realise that they dim his glory when they represent him as the victim of a protest against an injustice local to Ireland in- stead of as an Irish apostle of a world-wide movement for liberty, equality and fraternity. Yet this latter was indeed the character and position of Emmet, and as such the democracy of the future will revere him. ... He believed in the brotherhood of the oppressed and in the community of free nations, and died for his ideal. (Nov 1910) [On William Thompson:] Fervent Celtic enthus- iasts are fond of claiming, and the researches of our days seem to bear out the claim, that Irish missionaries were the first to rekindle the lamp of learning in Europe, and dispel the intellectual darkness following the downfall of the Roman Empire; may we not also take pride in the fact that an Irishman also was the first to pierce the worse than Egyptian darkness of capitalist barbarism and point out to the toilers the conditions of their enslave- ment, and the essential pre-requisites of their emancipation? (Nov 1913) Eventually the Government seized upon the really dangerous man -- the man who had hatred of injustice deeply enough rooted to wish to destroy it at all costs, the man who had faith enough in the masses to trust a revolutionary outbreak to their native impulses, and who possessed the faculty of combining thought with action, John Mitchel. With his arrest 22