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thought and discussion, and the rise of a new Literature and Science.

In fact, traces of the beginnings of movements are seldom to be met with at the close. There have been many movements which were started under the impulse of a hope of industrial improvement and commercial success, but which have ended in a new arrangement of social forces giving rise to modifications in the character and extent of the State. Political regeneration has often been the objective, but the result has been the development of national wealth. Or, again, the establishment of uniformity in religious life and thought has been the spring of an individual's action, but the annihilation of a whole people's industry and commerce has been the