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deepest philosophy of the age forecasts similar eventualities for an
early day and for the whole earth. Thus it is that the investigation of
The Great American Crisis, actual and urgent, might properly lead us up
to the consideration of a Great World Crisis, impending and probable. On
some other occasion it may be thought proper to give to this latter
subject a distinct and more elaborate treatment. The object which we
have proposed in the present series is now sufficiently accomplished,
and the writer takes leave of the reader, with a profound conviction
that to the anxious cry, What of the night? the answer, All is well, can
be conscientiously returned. Even should the seemingly disastrous
features sketched above in the alternative programme of our national
future yet providentially reveal themselves in the scroll of our
nation's history, let not the patriot or the lover of mankind for a
moment despair. It will be but the intensified darkness preceding the
light--the crisis of a deep-seated disease prognosticating health. The
destiny of America is the destiny of man; and that is, that we come soon
into the inheritance of new glories--an unlimited development and
prosperity, founded on Religion married to Science, eventuating in the
reconciliation of Order and Progression, in Universal Justice, and in
the elevation, protection, mutual cooeperation and happiness of all.
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