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time to fight for home and country without inquiring into any "merits of the case."'

If we would know the real ideals which represent the best standard of conduct for the nation, we must turn not to works of piety, but to the life of the nation as mirrored in its literature and its history.

The utter falseness of the notion that the ideal of the age of chivalry was formed by Christian ethics is apparent by taking the character of that pattern knight, Sir Lancelot, as it is faithfully rendered on his death by Sir Ector, and reported by Malory.

Ah, Lancelot, thou wert head of all Christian knights! And now – there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knights' hands; and thou wert the courtliest knight that ever bare shield; and thou wert the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrode horse; and thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman; and thou were the kindest man that ever strake with sword; and thou were the goodliest person ever came among press of knights; and thou were the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies; and thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.

Let Spenser testify for England's ideals in 'the spacious days of great Elizabeth,' when English character was most openly displayed. The English 'hero' was not then a meek,