64/70 But hereafter they may be of some use to you, in some future form which your commonwealth may take. In the present it can hardly remain; but before its final settlement it may be obliged to pass, as one of our poets says, "through great varieties of untried being," and in all its transmigrations to be purified by fire and blood.'-- _Burke's Works_, ii. 517, 'Reflections on the Revolution in France.' [109] As to the general causes of the strength of the Home Rule movement in England, and the general considerations in its favour, see _England's Case against Home Rule_ (3rd ed.), ch.iii.and iv.pp. |