fore the clear brain and the cool common sense of mankind.
"Even now we hear, with inward strife,
A motion toiling in the gloom,—
The spirit of the years to come
Yearning to mix himself with life.
"A slow developed strength awaits
Completion in a painful school,—
Phantoms of other forms of rule,
New majesties of mighty states."
Why should we haste, with foolish, blind zeal, to pick up the chaff, and rust, and offal, which wise nations ajre throwing away? Why not seize upon their cautious, prudent eclecticism, now, in our masculine youth, instead of going the round of a stale, perhaps a foul, experience? Why not make ourselves a precedent? Why should we not profit by the centuries of governmental history, if even we should appear venturesome?
"The noble soul by age grows lustier,
Her appetite and her digestion mend;
We cannot hope to feed and nourish her
With woman's milk and pap nnto the end:
Provide you manlier diet!"
If I mistake not, the great desideratum of the nations is, a rigid honesty; a clear, straightforward rectitude; the absence of chicane, of guile, and cunning; the cleaving the meshes of policies and heartless diplomacy; and the constant and happy consciousness of the ideas of God, of truth, and of duty. We sec it now nowhere among the nations; in some there is an approach, a desire, an aspiration,—so strong, in some
