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32 great names of our day will long be the watchwords of England's freedom. We have left behind us a legacy of right, which will accumulate. Still, I look around with disappointment. Judiciously avoiding the name of king, Cromwell rules us with a power far exceeding that of the monarch we dethroned."

"But why," asked the younger Evelyn, "yield to Cromwell, when you resisted Charles?"

"From exhaustion, and the force of individual character. Cromwell is the master-spirit of his age; he has the bodily courage which inspires in the field, and the moral courage which sways in the council. Deeply imbued with the prevailing fanaticism, what would be to another an obstacle is to him a motive. He is not deterred by its absurdity, for he perceives it not; he is not disgusted by its pretensions, for they are his own. Like all great leaders in political convulsions, he has reached its high places by flinging himself, with all the force of powerful talents, into the errors, the passions, and the prejudices of his time. But, however his power may have been won, all must allow that it is most worthily worn. During the brief period of his vigorous administration, how altered is the position of England! Security