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inferior British squadron under Capt. Robert
H. Barclay. During this battle Perry dis-
played seamanship of a high order and great
personal bravery. Immediately after the bat-
tle Perry sent to Gen. W. H. Harrison the
famous message, 'We have met the enemy
and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one
schooner, and one sloop.' Perry's victory on
Lake Erie aroused the greatest enthusiasm
throughout the United States. After the war
Perry was again placed in command of the
Newport Station, and in 1816-17, as com-
mander of the Java, served under Decatur
in the Mediterranean against the Algerine and
Tripolitan pirates. In 1819 Perry, in com-

tianity became the imperial religion, it unhap-
pily proceeded to mete out towards innovat-
ing sects a mode of treatment similar to
that it had experienced from the heathen.
The Inquisition, which was established for
the express purpose of discovering heresy and
suppressing it, continued its career far into
Reformation times. The reformers were per-
secuted everywhere, successfully in Spain and
Italy; in France, the Huguenots received
a dreadful blow in the massacre of St. Bar-
tholomew. The Jews 'have suffered severely
in most F,uropean countries, most lately in
Germany.
Perseid Meteors, a system of small bodies

Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie.

mand of several vessels, proceeded to the
West Indian waters to protect American
commerce, and on his birthday, Aug. 23, died
of yellow fever near Trinidad.
Perry, Ralph Barton (1876- ), phil-
osopher, author and college professor. He
holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard,
Since 1903 he has been professor of philosophy
at Harvard. He was a major, U. £,. A., during
the World War* He is author of several
books on philosophy, including The Moral
Economy, The New Realism and The
Thought and Character of William James,
which he wrote in 1935 and which won for
him the Pulitzer Prize.
Persecution, the forcible suppression of
opinions and practices obnoxious to estab-
lished and traditional forms, especially of re-
ligion, has been common in almost every
age and country. From the time that Chris-

revolving round the sun in an elongated
ellipse, which intersects the terrestrial orbit
at a point passed by the earth about August
10.
Persephone, in ancient Greek mythology,
was the daughter of Zeus and Dcmeter; she
was the goddess of the lower world. When
Pluto carried her off to the shades, her moth-
er refused to let the fruits of the earth grow;
thus mortals could not sacrifice to the gods,
and Zeus was driven to compel Pluto to
send her back. Hence she was allowed to
to spend part of the year in the upper
world.
Persepolis, or Istakhr, the cradle of the
Persian kingdom, stood in the heart of Per-
sia proper, in the valley of Mervdasht, as it
is now called. The palaces of the kings stood
some miles away, close beneath a mountain,
on a lofty platform ascended by great stair-