But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.