Excerpt from The European Crisis and the American Struggle: Or the Beginning of the End That will not hear the voice of the charmer, Charm he never so wisely.' Now, as the whole scope and aim of this paper is to deal with high subjects, which are not altogether objects of sense or time, we must be content to cast our lot with the Irish parson, and rest in hope. The author does not pretend to expound the philosophy of history in these few pages. That would tax the powers of Burke, the teacher of statesmen}, a man whose mind was like the pillars of the temple, rounded and polished. Neither does he attempt to interpret the prophetic scripture, which would re quire the genius of Milton, a man whose ideas came so near the level of inspiration, and who talked as the peer of Apostles and Prophets. But we do hope in some modest way to arouse the attention of many thoughtless but well-meaning people to study for themselves the signs of the times, and that man who is big with a deathless destiny may not act as if God's world was only a great huckster's shop in which to make money, and that our statesmen may for a while forget the tariff, free trade and the currency, as things not of transcendent importance, and to take care that while they despise kings, they themselves be only pigmies unfit to stand beside the great fathers and founders of the nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.