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He studied them year after year, in the dim light which pierced the deep embrasure of those walls with which tyranny had thought to shut in at last his world-grasping energies.
Without any material resources to sustain it strong in the national sentiments, strong in the moral forces with which the past controls the present, strong in that natural abhorrence of change with which nature protects her larger growths, that principle which tyranny can test so long with impunity which it can test with impunity, till it forgets that this also has in nature its limits, strong in the absence of any combination of opposition, to the young awakening England of that age, that now hollow image of the past, that phantom of the military force that had been, which seemed to be waiting only the first breath of the popular will to dissolve it, was as yet an armed and terrific reality; its iron was on every neck, its fetter was on every step, and all the new forces, and world-grasping aims and aspirations which that age was generating were held down and cramped, and tortured in its chains, dashing their eagle wings in vain against its iron limits.
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