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TO AUGUSTE COMTE, Of San Francisco, Cal., MY DEAR FRIEND AND CLASSMATE, I BEG
TO DEDICATE THIS VOLUME. JEREMIAH CURTIN
Introductory
IN the trilogy "With Fire and
Sword," "The Deluge," and "Pan Michael," Sienkiewicz
has given pictures of a great and decisive epoch in modern history.
The results
of the struggle begun under Bogdan Hmelnitski have been felt for more than two
centuries and they are growing daily in importance.
Russia which rose out
of that struggle has become a power not only of European but of worldwide
significance, and, to all human seeming, she is yet in an early stage of her
career.
In "Quo Vadis" the author
gives us pictures of opening scenes in the conflict of moral ideas with the
Roman Empire, — a conflict from which Christianity issued as the leading force
in history.
The Slays are not so well known to
Western Europe or to us as they are sure to be in the near future; hence the
trilogy, with all its popularity and merit, is not appreciated yet as it will
be.
The conflict described in "Quo
Vadis" is of supreme interest to a vast number of persons reading English;
and this book will rouse, I think, more attention at first than anything
written by Sienkiewicz hitherto.
JEREMIAH CURTIN ILOM, NORTHERN GUATEMALA, June 1896
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