The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries

[Transcriber's notes] This is derived from these copies on the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029759630 (1920) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924014712875 (1907) The two editions are combined because of missing pages in one and missing images in the other.

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Obvious spelling errors have been corrected but "inventive" and inconsistent spelling is left unchanged.

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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MAKERS OF MODERN MEDICINE Lives of the men to whom nineteenth century medical science owes most. Second Edition. New York, 1910. $3.00 net.

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[Illustration] LE BEAU DIEU (AMIENS)

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THE THIRTEENTH

Greatest of Centuries

BY

JAMES J. WALSH, K.C.St.G., M.D., Ph.D., LL.D,

LITT. D. (Georgetown), Sc.D. (Notre Dame)

MEDICAL DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY; PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY AT CATHEDRAL COLLEGE, NEW YORK; LECTURER IN PSYCHOLOGY, MARYWOOD COLLEGE, SCRANTON AND ST. MARY'S COLLEGE, PLAINFIELD; TRUSTEE OF THE CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL OF AMERICA; MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, OF THE GERMAN AND FRENCH AND ITALIAN SOCIETIES OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, A.M.A., A.A.A.S., ETC.

Popular Edition

(Sixtieth Thousand)

CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL PRESS New York, 1920

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Copyright 1907 James J. Walsh

Set up and stereotyped 1907 (first edition 2,000)

Reprinted with Appendix 1909

Georgetown edition enlarged and extra illustrated 1910

Fourth edition reprinted with additions (6th thousand) 1912

Fifth edition, Knights of Columbus, 50,000, 1912-1913.

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THE SUPERIOR PRINTING CO

AKRON, OHIO

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To Right Rev. Monsignor M. J. Lavelle,

Rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, sometime President of the Catholic Summer School, to whose fatherly patronage this book is largely due, and without whose constant encouragement it would not have been completed, it is respectfully and affectionately dedicated by the author.

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PROEM.

(EPIMETHEUS.)

WAKE again, Teutonic Father-ages, Speak again, beloved primeval creeds; Flash ancestral spirit from your pages, Wake the greedy age to noble deeds.

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Ye who built the churches where we worship, Ye who framed the laws by which we move, Fathers, long belied, and long forsaken, Oh, forgive the children of your love!

(PEOMETHEUS.)