es, in the water it drinks, in things that seem,
and which it has always believed, to be the most innocent and healthful.
The evil elements it neglects corrupt these in their springs and pollute
them in their courses. Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering
that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. The
world has outlived much, and will outlive a great deal more, and men have
contrived to be happy in it. It has shown the strength of its
constitution in nothing more than in surviving the quack medicines it has
tried. In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as
brain. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in
monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the
still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting
us to a wider and wiser humanity.

[1] Below the Peasants, it should be remembered, was still another even
more helpless class, the servile farm-laborers. The same witness informs
us that of the extraordinary imposts the Peasants paid nearly twice as
much in proportion to their estimated property as the Barons, Nobles, and
Burghers together. Moreover, the upper classes were assessed at their
own valuation, while they arbitrarily fixed that of the Peasants, who had
no voice, ("Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneti." Serie I., tomo i., pp.
378, 379, 389.)

[2] The effect of the electric telegraph in reproducing this trooping of
emotion and perhaps of opinion is yet to be measured. The effect of
Darwinism as a disintegrator of humanitarianism is also to be reckoned
with.

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