redressing every grievance, reforming every abuse, knitting the
hearts of the British nation together by practical care and help
between class and class, man and man, governor and governed, that we
may bequeath to our children, as Henry the Eighth's men did to
theirs, a British national life, so united and whole-hearted, so
clear in purpose and sturdy in execution, so trained to know the
right side at the first glance and take it, that they shall look back
with love and honour upon us, their fathers, determined to carry out,
even to the death, the method which we have bequeathed to them.
Then, if God will that the powers of evil, physical and spiritual,
should combine against this land, as they did in the days of good
Queen Bess, we shall not have lived in vain; for those who, as in
Queen Bess's days, thought to yoke for their own use a labouring ox,
will find, as then, that they have roused a lion from his den.



Footnotes:


{1} North British Review, No. LI., November 1856.--'A History of
England, from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth.' By J.
A. Froude, M.A., late Fellow of Exeter college, Oxford. London: J.
W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 2 vols. 1856.

{2} This article appeared in the North British Review.