Excerpt from Studies in Biography, Vol. 2: Topics of the TimeLast Sunday we met here to re¿ect on the work of Mahomet and the foundation and his tory of Islam. To-day - how vast a sense of humanity does it imply, to note the interval and contrast - we turn to judge Gambetta and the Republic in France. The few weeks have passed that Comte judged expedient as an in terval for the fair judgment of the dead, the ¿owers in the wreaths upon his grave are hardly withered, and how much has happened since his death! Within a month we see (as we could not see in the hour of his disappear ance) all that his death involved.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.