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 now receives fair consideration; the clash of interests is less loud; jarring and discord of all sorts go more against the grain. Yes, the horizon is decidedly clearing; it was high time it should. We may fairly hope that the world has passed the dark hour which precedes the dawn, and that those lines of Swinburne are in course of being realised:—