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nionumctit, the sepulchral oily, the ruined state, the demol- 

 ished kingdom, the dismembered empire. At her bidding, 

 the nation had appeared upon her theatre ; performed its part 

 in developing the grand plot in her drama, and retired be- 

 hind the scene. It disappeared when it had nothing more to 

 fulfil ; when its mission was accomplished ; when the con- 

 dition was complied with under which its existence had been 

 permitted. Every important step in her advancement had 

 required a sacrifice. Greece and Rome had retired to give 

 place to the modern European movement. All had been 

 losers except herself. Her progress had been onward still, 

 whether she encountered society or solitude, the city's hum 

 or the empire's grave. 



But humanity stops not at the ultimate separation of her 

 elements. Those elements when separated, are each to be 

 developed, and in that developement to exhaust her entire 

 capacity. 



Industry, relieved from governmental visitation in the 

 shape of discriminating duties, is to be carried out into all 

 its possible varieties of application. Its empire is established 

 over the useful ; its achievements, the creation of value out of 

 things in themselves valueless; its instruments, human hands 

 and the complicated machinery that has been devised to aid 

 them in their efforts; its object, human happiness in the sup- 

 ply it furnishes to human wants. 



to enforce public opinion. Like the grea^ organ of digestion 

 in the healthy animal system, it is to feel without being felf, 

 to act without being perceived. That government is to be 

 the most perfect, that allows man the utmost possible freedom 

 in his industry, in his arts, in his religion, in his philosophy. 



The arts are to reflect the forms of nature moulded and 

 embellished by the human mind. They are to add beauty to 

 the beautiful, sublimity to the sublime. They are to collect 

 from all forms their peculiar beauties; to recombine them in 

 harmonious proportions ; and to exhibit in one powerful view, 

 a strength in design ; a felicity in execution ; a perfectiori 



