It had been announced under auspices calculated to ensure its success, but its unexpected ability, the ground it broke in the national policy, and the vast intellectual resources it developed eclipsed the prestige under which it was deemed necessary to usher it into existence.
It was at once a proof of greater powers than the country had yet witnessed, and a prophecy of a different fate from what she hoped for.
The aims, the logic, the very language of factious diplomacy were eschewed.

It seemed as if a light had streamed down from heaven, fresh from God, to give the people hope, comfort and assurance.

The genius of Davis seized the opportunity as though he were His deputed messenger in the great work of regeneration.

For the first time men awoke to the consciousness of what they were or might be.

Harnessed to the triumphant car of one gigantic intellect, they had forgotten the dignity of their own nature, and were astonished to find how transcendant its resources and sufficient its strength.