Modern Literature and Literary Men: Being a Second Gallery of Literary Portraits (Classic Reprint)

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Are we not standing near the brink of another period, in some points very similar to that of English Puritanism? Is not our age getting tired of names, words, pretensions; and anxious for things, deeds, realities? It cares nothing now for such terms as Christendom - Reformed Churches - Glorious Constitution of 1688. It wants a Christendom where the character of Christ Iike that of Hamlet - is not omitted by special desire: it wants re-reformed churches, and a glorious constitution, that Will do a little more to feed, clothe, and educate those who sit under its shadow, and have long talked of, Without tasting, its blessed fruits. It wants, in short, those big, beautiful words - Liberty, Religion, Free Government, Church and State, taken down from our flags, transparencies, and triumphal arches, and introduced into our homes, hearths, and hearts. And, although we have now no Cromwell and no Milton, yet, thank God, we have thousands of gallant hearts, and gifted spirits, and eloquent tongues, who have vowed loud and deep, in all the languages of Europe, that falsehoods and deceptions, of all sorts and sizes, of all ages, statures, and complexions, shall come to a close.

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