the child safe out of the fire, and handed it to its mother.  Of course he was arrested on the spot by the village gendarme, who now made his appearance.  He was taken back to the prison.  The fact was reported in all French papers, but none of them bestirred itself to obtain his release.  If he had shielded a warder from a comrade’s blow. he would have been made a hero of.  But his act was simply humane, it did not promote the State’s ideal; he himself did not attribute it to a sudden inspiration of divine grace; and that was enough to let the man fall into oblivion.  Perhaps, six or twelve months were added to his sentence for having stolen—­“the State’s property”—­the prison’s dress.

15.  The medical Academy for Women (which has given to Russia a large portion of her 700 graduated lady doctors), the four Ladies’ Universities (about 1000 pupils in 1887; closed that year, and reopened in 1895), and the High Commercial School for Women are entirely the work of such private societies.  To the same societies we owe the high standard which the girls’ gymnasia attained since they were opened in the sixties.  The 100 gymnasia now scattered over the Empire (over 70,000 pupils), correspond to the High Schools for Girls in this country; all teachers are, however, graduates of the universities.

16.  The Verein fur Verbreitung gemeinnutslicher Kenntnisse, although it has only 5500 members, has already opened more than 1000 public and school libraries, organized thousands of lectures, and published most valuable books.

17.  Very few writers in sociology have paid attention to it.  Dr. Ihering is one of them, and his case is very instructive.  When the great German writer on law began his philosophical work, Der Zweck im Rechte ("Purpose in Law"), he intended to analyze “the active forces which call forth the advance of society and maintain it,” and to thus give “the theory of the sociable man.”  He analyzed, first, the egotistic forces at work, including the present wage-system and coercion in its variety of political and social laws; and in a carefully worked-out scheme of his work he intended to give the last paragraph to the ethical forces—­the sense of duty and mutual love—­which contribute to the same aim.  When he came, however, to discuss the social functions of these two factors, he had to write a second volume, twice as big as the first; and yet he treated only of the personal factors which will take in the following pages only a few lines.  L. Dargun took up the same idea in Egoismus und Altruismus in der Nationalokonomie, Leipzig, 1885, adding some new facts.  Buchner’s Love, and the several paraphrases of it published here and in Germany, deal with the same subject.

18.  Light and Shadows in the Life of an Artisan.  Coventry, 1893.