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RGON.

"To establish, to consecrate in short, the empire of reason, the entire and
full enjoyment of the human faculties."

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J. A. BROOK AND CO.,

282, STRAND, W.C.

251.

"The world's eyeless charioteer,

Destiny, is hurrying past:

What faith is crushed, what empire bleeds
Beneath her earthquake-footed steeds;
What eagle-winged Victory sits

At her right hand? What shadow flits
Before! What splendour rolls behind ?
Ruin and renovation cry-

Who but we ?

"The sway

Of thy strong genius Laon, which foresaw
This hope, compels all spirits to obey;
Which round thy secret strength now throng
In wide array.

"Thou hast lent

To me to all the power to advance

Towards this unforseen deliverance

From our ancestral chains,-ay, thou didst rear
That lamp of hope on high, which time, nor chance,
Nor change may not extinguish, and my share
Of good is o'er the world its gathered beams to bear."

SHELLEY.

PART FIRST.

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