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the attention of the public to is this fact, that if the government thought proper to spend eighty thousand dollars for the purchase of the Plains of Abraham, where it is not at all sure that the battle between Wolfe and Montcalm was fought, for a mere field the same government should redeem from the hands of strangers a place where fortifications once stood, the most formidable in America, where two sieges were held, where battles were fought, where blood was shed, and where to-day the soldiers of England and France sleep side by side. The government who were justified in spending so much money to purchase the Plains of Abraham, should, in my estimation, do something towards saving from destruction and vandalism those ruins which are of such general interest. I remember reading in Macaulay these words: "A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors is not likely to perform noble achievements which will be remembered by remote descendants." Let us keep the memory of our ancestors. I do not at all plead for Canadians to do as they are doing in China, to look always behind and adore what has gone before us. I call attention to the old fortresses and battlegrounds because they are part and parcel of our history that are visible, and inasmuch as none of us will condemn the study of our history by our children, we should join hands in having the monuments of old preserved for them and our descendants. It is useless to think that we can build for ourselves a great country if we only look forward to material achievements, to commerce, trade and navigation. That is all right, that is a part of the monument, the most useful, perhaps, but not the most noble and the most refined. A country lives not by bread alone. It must always have what elevates it: education, art, religion, poetry. And history is all that, ours more particularly. The present must stand on the past, and the past glories are a sacred heritage. In France, in 1887, they passed a law for the preservation of