...of the world at large, omitting its female inhabitants, and in his enthusiasm expresses a wish to " let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." Taking this thought, which is a grand and noble thought, as the text-word of a few rambling ideas,...

...argosies of magic saile, Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales", etc. " Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let...world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change ; Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than...

...one, Than that earth should stand at gaze, like Joshua's moon' in Ajalon I" •when he wrote— '' Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for over down the ringing grooves of change." But all this has nothing to do with the Abbeylands of my...

...progress both lengthened and widened. In the spirit of the great \\otit of our own day we s»y, — " Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves ofchanyc. " Tet amid all changes may we attain to the Changeless — having Him and His as ours. May...

...on the first syllable gives the verse an abrupt and rapid manner. XXÍV THE EblTOE'S PREFACE. "Not in vain the distance beacons; Forward, forward, let...spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day ; Better fifty years in Europe than a...

...full of exultation at the forward attitude of the world, at last breaking out grandly — " Through the shadow of the globe, we sweep into the younger day, Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay." Thus sings the poet in Locksley Hall ; thus does he teach his grand lesson ; thus...

...men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range ; Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger...

...process of the suns. *********** NS — I. 2 U Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let ns range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadows of the globe we sweep into the younger day : Better fifty years of Europe than...

...men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua'* moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spm forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger...

...world, the positivist will not see, that in other respects man remains essentially the same, although " —the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change." True, man is no plant vegetating for ages on the same spot and in the same way. There is a progress....