THE PROGRESS OF THE AGE, AND THE DANGER OF THE AGE: TWO LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE ST. XAVIER CONFERENCE OF THE HALL OF ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY. BY THE REV. LOUIS HEYLEN, S.J. CINCINNATI: JOHN P. WALSH, 170 SYCAMORE STREET. 1865. NEW YOR PREFACE. THE present literary compositions form part of a course of lectures delivered during the winter of 1862-63, by some of the Professors of the St. Louis University. The publication of these two lectures has been thought particularly appropriate at this time, both on account of the interesting nature of the subject and the ability with which it is treated, and as a slight tribute to the memory of the author, since deceased. The REV. LOUIS HEYLEN, was born at Heyst-opden-berg, near Antwerp, Belgium, in the year 1828. He performed his first studies in the college of Mechlin, where he was distinguished for brilliant talents, and that solid piety which characterized his after-life. The account of his entry into the religious state, and of his labors in this country, we extract from a brief notice published in the Freeman's Journal, shortly after his death. "Animated with the desire of consecrating himself to God in the religious state, he decided upon joining the American |