SEVENTH. Women and Slaves

EIGHTH. The Greek Emperor and his Suc-

cessors

General Review

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Being the Free Aspect of the Original Jewish

Mission or its Feminine Correlative-Prologue 206

ACT FIRST OF THE NEW DRAMA: being also Scene

Second of the Third Act of the Elder Drama.

In other words, the Orbis Romanus, being now

complete, and the whole Mediterranean world

united in one empire, the new Christian

Drama, which is a recommencement of the

Jewish Mission within the limits of the

Empire, forms a part of the Third Act, which

represents the Roman Mission.-From the

Christian Epoch to the Establishment of

Christianity

ACT SECOND OF THE CHRISTIAN DRAMA; or, Scene

Third of the Third Act of the Elder Drama.-

From the establishment of Christianity to the

Justinian Reformation

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The Middle or Dark Ages,

Or the Reign of Roman Union and Feudal Dispersion-

the Rock and the Sand of the new Trilogue-lasting

till the revival of the Greek Missions in the Renais-

sance and the revival of the primitive Christian

Mission in the Reformation.

[Here the two Dramas unite in the Third Act of each,

and begin the history of the middle ages and the spiritual

reign of the Roman Empire. It is therefore called Scene

Fourth; for, though Rome has changed her religion and

her government, she still reigns and remains the centre of

the civilised world-the first of the new as Palestine of

the old Trilogue.]

SCENE FOURTH. The High Priest on the Bridge,

and the new Prophet of the

SCENE SIXTH.

The Constructors of North-wes-

tern Society, the Monastic Or-

ders or Clergy, the Barons,

Kings, and Commons

SEVENTH. The Knights and the Ladies

EIGHTH. Peter on the Rock

РАСБ

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The National Missions.

MEDITERRANEAN AND ATLANTIC MISSIONS: being tran-
sitional-partly Mediterranean and partly Oceanic
-or civilisation escaping from the narrow limits of
the Mediterranean world. This Era may be regarded
as the Greater Dawn of the Coming Day. It is an
analytical Era in which the defective unity of the
preceding Era is broken up into national sectarian
and alienated parts; and a great struggle is main-
tained between the conservatives of the old mediæval,
and the votaries of the new or the resuscitated and
antemediæval, principles, causing great repressive
severity on the one hand and looseness and diversity
of principle on the other. This multiform dissolution
of Medieval Catholicity occasions an infinite variety
of minute detail and analysis in controversy, philo-

sophical investigation and free inquiry, and a hopeless
difference between ecclesiastical and natural philo-
sophy; and must therefore be regarded as a transi-
tion from a lesser to a greater Catholicity, preparing
material for a larger idea of collective unity than the
Roman and Mediterranean, but far from exhibiting
even a tendency to unity in its own predominant
spirit of controversy and national and sectarian
antipathies. In this Era, Mary, the Sponsa Dei, is
still more worshipped by the Mediævalists and Medi-
terraneanists, and Nature, her philosophical coun-
terpart, almost exclusively worshipped by their
modern opponents, both alike far from the true and
living idea of the Divine Maternity.

SCENE FIRST.

The North-western Nations.

SECOND. The Revivers of Literature, Phi-

losophy, and Art

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ACT FIFTH.

The Universal Mission.

FINAL OR OCEANIC MISSION, in which civilisation

effects its final escape from the Mediterranean

sphere of limitation and confinement, and the

enlargement of its heart and the expansion of its

mind become analogous to the broad expanse of the

ocean which it has at length reached. This enlarge-

ment and this expansion, however, are of gradual,

not instant, attainment; and announce their advent

in a Lesser Dawn or transition period, which is per-

ceived in the British Isles as the destined sphere of

the commencement, but not the sole sphere of the

operation, of the Fifth Act. This act embraces the

whole civilised world, but radiates from a point in

the ocean, as the representative of a larger idea than

the Mediterranean. It is future, but its ruling prin-

ciple can easily be discovered by logical inference

from a review of the progressive development of the

preceding series, alternating with unitary and divi-

sional missions in succession, and enlarging in idea

and variety of detail as they advance towards the

ocean. Into this ocean all the rivers of thought flow.

PROLOGUE

The Dawn of the Universal Mission.

SCENE FIRST.

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The British Isles and the Islanders

SECOND. The Matter-of-fact Men

THIRD. The Men of Principle.

FOURTH. The Men of the Law

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