The dawn of the new days

Here I am, I whom you do not evoke, but who am anxious to be useful to the Society, whose objective is as serious as yours is. I will speak of politics. Do not be alarmed: I know within what limits I must restrain myself.

The present situation of Europe offers the most impressive aspect to the observer. In no epoch — I do not except even the end of the last century, which made such great havoc of the prejudices and abuses that oppressed the human spirit — has the intellectual movement made itself felt more bold, more frank. I say frank, because the European spirit marches in truth. Liberty is no longer a bloody phantom, but the beautiful and great goddess of public prosperity. In Germany itself, in this Germany that I portrayed with so much love, the ardent breath of the epoch destroys the last bulwarks of the prejudices. Be happy, you who live in such a moment; but happier still will be your descendants. The hour announced by the precursor approaches. You see the horizon grow pale, but, like the Hebrews of old, you will remain at the threshold of the Promised Land and will not see the radiant sun of the new days rise. Stäel. n Allan Kardec.

Paris. — Typ. H. CARION, rue Bonaparte, 64.

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Madame de Staël.]