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Of like tenor was the opinion of an arch-conservative, George Ticknor, written in 1869, which bears a resemblance to the lamentation of Godkin's later years. "The civil war of '61," wrote Ticknor, "has made a great gulf between what happened before it in our century and what has happened since, or what is likely to happen hereafter.
But I find a measure of compensation in the fact that you, dear Ensal, the arch-conservative, have at last been stirred to action." Earl now paused to give emphasis to what he was to say next. "Ensal, the Christ has bidden you, you say, to preach his Gospel to every creature.
Neither man had in him much of the stuff that tribunes of the people are made of, but Schiller had less of it than Goethe. His whole temper was that of an aristocrat. Had he lived in the forties of the nineteenth century, we may be very sure that he would have scented a return of the French Terror, and would have spoken, if at all, as an arch-conservative.
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