There is a Revolution of History as of Knowledge: who does not remember
how often the same succession of events has happened in his memory! Dr.
Newman has well expressed this truth in a poem in the _Lyra Apostolica_,
entitled “Faith against Sight,” with the motto, “As it was in the days
of Lot, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man:”
The World has Cycles in its course, when all
That once has been, is acted o’er again:
Not by some fatal law which need appal
Our faith, or binds our deeds as with a chain;
But by men’s separate sins, which blended still
The same bad round fulfil.
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