No author of a work calculated to elevate the mind and ennoble the
ambitions of mankind could aspire to a higher climax; no writer of a
series of admonitions, in escaping "a lame and impotent conclusion,"
could rest more calmly than he who, having built his tower upon the
solid duties of to-day, peers out with the great lenses of Religion,
into the hopes of the future--
"Past flaming bounds of place and time,
The living throne, the sapphire blaze,
Where angels tremble while they gaze."
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