90

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1835-6. a verylittle wayon t+ ~~~ for which it had girded iteel
=. 21.2. up. The party — -~rriad the change seemed ¥
have sunk - thy “47 faction, blind to Hf
demands of “* va ~ + 5 strong and comm?”
doctrine, wit: =. national «is, ~x1 bardly even with 85f
vigorous pergonzl =e Maanls suddenly felt that tH
interesting thing wr r 5 mechonism but policy, and ©
fortunately the men vw hed am<~~ 7 the mechanism wer
in policy found emp*~ = - "at resource. The rest!
of the disappointmc- degree of fresh 8%
independent acti~ better minds of t°
time, that the snce-- we 1, esiy from 1840 to 187)
practically lived or thonrhy and sentiment of tH
seven or eight year ~~ .  :rco-Jing the close of tH
Liberal reign in I wel during those years that tbe
schools were formed and the principles shaped, which hs®
attracted to themselves all wt were serious enough to f¢¢
the need of a school or the use f ~ principle.
If the change in institutions which had taken place in 18%
bad brought forth hardly any of the fruit, either bitter
sweet, which friends had hoped and enemies had threatentd
it was no wonder that those who were capable of a larg
earnestness about public things, whether civil or eccl®
siastical, turned henceforth from the letter of institutions %
their spirit; from their form and outer framework to t
operative force within; er? "~~m stereotyped catchword®
about the social union t* # r-  Ilestination. It was no"
the day of ideals in every cam: The general restlossne®
was as intense among reflecting Conservatives as amobé
reflecting Liberals; and those who looked to the past agre?®
with those who looked to the future, in energetic dissat®
faction with a sterile present. We need only look aro?’
to recognize the unity of the original impulse whit
animated men who dreaded or hated one another: 8"