All things will bear witness to the change, while the busy forms of wrong and outrage disappear like evil spirits at the dawn. Then shall the happiness of the poor and lowly have uncounted friends. The cause of those in prison shall find fresh voices, the education of the ignorant kindly supporters, the majesty of Peace other vindicators, the sufferings of the slave new and gushing floods of sympathy. Then, at last, shall the Brotherhood of Man stand confessed, filling the souls of all with more generous life, prompting to deeds of beneficence, conquering the Heathen prejudices of country, color, and race, guiding the judgment of the historian, animating the verse of the poet and the eloquence of the orator, ennobling human thought and conduct, and inspiring those good works by which alone we attain the summits of True Glory. Good Works! Such even now is the Heavenly Ladder on which angels are ascending and descending, while weary Humanity, on pillows of stone, slumbers heavily at its feet. ILLUSTRATIONS REFERRED TO ON PAGE 38. _Civil War a Crime._--The terms describing civil war, employed by Roman writers, implicate _both sides_ in its guilt and dishonor. Such phrases as the following occur in the "Pharsalia" of Lucan: "_civile nefas_" (Lib. IV. 172); "_civilis Erinnys_" (IV. 187); "_crimen civile_" (VII. 398). Eutropius says: "Hinc jam _bellum civile_ successit, _exsecrandum et lacrimabile_." (Brev. Hist. Rom., Lib. VI. c. 19.) Of the war between Sulla and Marius Florus says: "Hoc deerat unum populi Romani malis, jam ut ipse intra se _parricidale bellum_ domi stringeret, et in urbe media ac foro, quasi harena, cives cum civibus suis gladiatorio more concurrerent. Æquiore animo utcumque ferrem, si plebeii duces, aut si nobiles, mali saltem, ducatum _sceleri_ præbuissent; cum vero, _pro facinus_! qui viri! qui imperatores! decora et ornamenta sæculi sui, Marius et Sulla, _pessimo facinori_ suam etiam dignitatem præbuerunt." (Epit. Rerum Rom., Lib. III. c. 21.) The condemnation of the historian is aroused, not because of the wickedness of a contest among fellow-_men_, but among fellow-_citizens_, and because illustrious personages joined in it. But he is impartial in condemning _both sides_. Marius and Sulla alike are treated as criminals. The same judgment seems to be expressed with regard to Cæsar and Pompey. "_Cæsaris furor atque Pompeii_ urbem, Italiam, gentes, nationes, totum denique qua patebat imperium, quodam quasi diluvio et inflammatione corripuit; adeo ut non recte tantum _civile_ dicatur, ac ne sociale quidem, sed nec externum, sed potius commune quoddam ex omnibus, et plus quam bellum." (Ibid., Lib. IV. c. 2.) His description of what was called the Social War contains a principle which must condemn equally all strife among cognate nations or states: "Sociale bellum vocetur licet, ut