Chapter XII: Conclusion

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."