424 THE OPENING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE. 



enough for saving. Hereafter we can create, but it is now 

 only that we can preserve. By the exertion of great national 

 powers, and under the guidance of enlightened monarchs, we 

 may raise magnificent temples and gorgeous cities ; we may 

 furnish labour for the idle, and interest for the ignorant. But 

 the power neither of emperors, nor queens, nor kingdoms, can 

 ever print again upon the sands of time the effaced footsteps 

 of departed generations, or gather together from the dust the 

 stones which had been stamped with the spirit of our ances- 

 tors. 



THE END. 



