. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. desired : but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attainunto.—2 Maccabees xv. 38. CHAPTIR I OkLLANS AND PaKIS. There arc but two events in history: the siege of Troy and the FrenchRevolution.—Ix)Ro BKAcoNirnu). Le monde est vide depuis les Romains.—St. Jctt. HK Renaissance wasat once the precursorand the jiarcnt of theRevolution ; a voicec
. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. desired : but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attainunto.—2 Maccabees xv. 38. CHAPTIR I OkLLANS AND PaKIS. There arc but two events in history: the siege of Troy and the FrenchRevolution.—Ix)Ro BKAcoNirnu). Le monde est vide depuis les Romains.—St. Jctt. HK Renaissance wasat once the precursorand the jiarcnt of theRevolution ; a voicecr)ing in that wilder-ness which had madeof the world, crjingagainst asceticism andagainst superstition;pleading for a restora-tion of the true, thereal, the natural ; proclaiming, though sometimes with stam-mering lips, the divinity of nature; preparing the way forthe revolution ; and yet, like the Haptist of old, unconsciousof what it was the forenmner. Hut at its commencementthe Renaissance looked only for a revival of the spirit ofclassical antiquity—it may be of pKiganism—a restorationof the divinity, of the joyousness of nature, discerning littleor perhaps nothing of that stcdfast faith in ETIENNE DO LET. that eager aspiration after justice, that recognition of theequality of rights amongst all mankind, which it was re-served for the revolution first to teach Between Poggio or Valla (two of those who gave thegreatest impetus to the Renaissance in its earlier stages)and Rabelais, in whom its work was complete, the distanceat first seems immense, yet the chasm when bridged overby Erasmus almost disappears from view. But betweenRabelais and Voltaire—the father of the Revolution in atleast one, and that not the least beneficial of its aspects—the distance seems, and perhaps really is, much they are united by Montaigne and Moliere, and a closeexamination shows them to be really at one. Intense love-ef the
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