it from the distance, and we should speculate on the cause. What is it all about? against what is it directed? what wonder has happened upon earth? what prodigious, what preternatural event 30 is adequate to the burden of so vast an effect? We should judge rightly in our curiosity about a phenomenon like this; it must be a portentous event, and it is. It is an innovation, a miracle, I may say, in the course of human events. The physical world revolves year by year, and begins 5 again; but the political order of things does not renew itself, does not return; it continues, but it proceeds; there is no retrogression. This is so well understood by men of the day, that with them progress is idolized as another name for 10 good. The past never returns--it is never good; if we are to escape existing ills, it must be by going forward. The past is out of date; the past is dead. As well may the dead live to us, as well may the dead profit us, as the past return. _This_, 15 then, is the cause of this national transport, this national cry, which encompasses us. The past _has_ returned, the dead lives. Thrones are overturned, and are never restored; States live and die, and then are matter only for history. Babylon was 20 great, and Tyre, and Egypt, and Nineveh, and shall never be great again. The English Church was, and the English Church was not, and the English Church is once again. This is the portent, worthy of a cry. It is the coming in of a 25 Second Spring; it is a restoration in the moral world, such as that which yearly takes place in the physical.