From the Special Article (39 pages) by H. G. S. A. O. DE BLOWITZ, Ph.D.:
Lesseps.—... At his advanced age he went with his youngest child to Panama to see with his own eyes the field of his new enterprise. He there beheld the Culebra and the Chagres; he saw the mountain and the stream, those two greatest obstacles of nature that sought to bar his route. He paid no heed to them, but began the struggle against the Culebra and the Chagres. It was against them that was broken his invincible will, sweeping away in the defeat the work of Panama, his own fortune, his fame, and almost an atom of his honour. But this atom, only grazed by calumny, has already been restored to him by posterity, for he died poor, having been the first to suffer by the disaster to his illusions....
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From the Special Article (21 pages) by M. CAMILLE PELLETAN. Translated by Mr. EDMUND GOSSE: