Le peuple francais a peu de gout pour le
developpement graduel des institutions. Il ignore son histoire, il ne
s'y reconnait pas, elle n'a pas laisse de trace dans sa
conscience.--SCHERER, _Etudes Critiques_, i. 100. Durch die Revolution
befreiten sich die Franzosen von ihrer Geschichte.--ROSENKRANZ, _Aus
einem Tagebuch_, 199.

[55] The discovery of the comparative method in philology, in
mythology--let me add in politics and history and the whole range of
human thought--marks a stage in the progress of the human mind at
least as great and memorable as the revival of Greek and Latin
learning.--FREEMAN, _Historical Essays_, iv. 301. The diffusion of a
critical spirit in history and literature is affecting the criticism
of the Bible in our own day in a manner not unlike the burst of
intellectual life in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.--JOWETT,
_Essays and Reviews_, 346. As the revival of literature in the
sixteenth century produced the Reformation, so the growth of the
critical spirit, and the change that has come over mental science, and
the mere increase of knowledge of all kinds, threaten now a revolution
less external but not less profound.--HADDAN, _Replies_, 348.

[56] In his just contempt and detestation of the crimes and
follies of the Revolutionists, he suffers himself to forget that the
revolution itself is a process of the Divine Providence, and that as
the folly of men is the wisdom of God, so are their iniquities
instruments of His goodness.--COLERIDGE, _Biographia Literaria_, ii.
240. In other parts of the world, the idea of revolutions in
government is, by a mournful and indissoluble association, connected
with the idea of wars, and all the calamities attendant on wars. But
happy experience teaches us to view such revolutions in a very
different light--to consider them only as progressive steps in
improving the knowledge of government, and increasing the happiness of
society and mankind.--J. WILSON, November 26, 1787, _Works_, iii. 293.
La Revolution, c'est-a-dire l'oeuvre des siecles, ou, si vous
voulez, le renouvellement progressif de la societe, ou encore, sa
nouvelle constitution.--REMUSAT, _Correspondance_, October 11, 1818. A
ses yeux loin d'avoir rompu le cours naturel des evenements, ni la
Revolution d'Angleterre, ni la notre, n'ont rien dit, rien fait, qui
n'eut ete dit, souhaite, fait, ou tente cent fois avant leur
explosion. "Il faut en ceci," dit-il, "tout accorder a leurs
adversaires,