England is very wonderful after fu absence of many years; London Just the same perennial miracle, and, paradoxically, they both give the impression of the immutability of change. Thus while London with its new buildings and the developments which have taken place during. the past 25 years remains the same, there about it all the indices of evolu-lon, of change from the old order of things, and this London, like the country of which it is the capital, thas been gradually passing through a silent, protracted revolution, distinguished not for the cataclysmic alterations bred of violent action and reaction, but for a gradualness of Purpose' which breathes the spirit, ff the Jand and its peoples, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a. seacchange Into something rich and strange.
This article should have been written five years ago when the writer returned to his homeland, after two decades abroad; but the accumulation of twenty years of change, burst upon him with such breath-taking rapidity that impres-slong ame and went with a which defied all efforts to pin them down immediately, and required some years of occasional thought, and 8 refreshing of impression before it izes no pious permits of no) artificially Vmited Togle, Piimiled fogle, but demands a. full recognition of the Feallles of the various situations as they arise, and "demands solution terms of the actual facts and not in accordance with a. system. which, however admirably "it" might have been Inspired, surrenders the realm of fact to the vapourings of the doetrinatre.
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