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11 industry would ensure plenty, and where the forces of the world would be working for the solid happiness of the race. Shelley was not the first, nor, let us hope, the last, to see this beatific vision. When Isaiah called upon the people of Israel to obey the everlastingly divine rules, he painted in glowing colours the beauty of the City of the Just, where men should live out their days in peace and righteousness. The Hebrew prophet and the English poet both declare that in the Holy Mountain of the Lord "they shall not hurt nor destroy." That which they both foresaw was the Reign of Brotherhood. The Festival of the Nations, described in "Laon and Cythna," is a bloodless banquet, such as could not be provided by man, who

Slays the lamb that looks him in the face.

This is the vision of the glorified earth as seen by the poet prophet:—