But of late it has begun, tired of the restless clatter of intellectual atoms, to desire to hear, if possible, the majestic harmonies in which the discords are resolved.

And at this point many at present and many more in the future will find their poetic and religious satisfaction in Browning.

At the very end, then, of the nineteenth century, in a movement which had only just begun, men said to themselves, "Browning felt beforehand what we are beginning to hope for, and wrote of it fifty, even sixty years ago.

No one cared then for him, but we care now." Again, though he thus anticipated the movements of the world, he did not, like the other poets, change his view about Nature, Man and God.

He conceived that view when he was young, and he did not alter it.