Are there grounds for believing that the whole of the Civilized World is about to undergo a great and last- ing Change-or is at present in a state of Transition PART FIRST. GENERAL VIEWS APPLICABLE TO THE SUBJECT. Nature is all in motion, yet o'er all ANONYMOUS. B GENERAL VIEWS, &c. THE OLD HOUSE. "There where some church-yard trees the place disclose, "It is an old house this," said I to myself, as I was busied one fresh morning, towards the end of the year, in trimming and fastening the rose plants, with which I had decked its grey and shattered walls," It is an old house now,-and cannot be expected to stand for many years—but it has had a prouder destiny than hundreds of more magnificent mansions—for it has given birth to the wise, the accomplished, and the good-it has been coeval with a system of opinions and of institutions that are now fast passing away, and which it seems unwilling to survive-and, viewing it therefore as a memorial of the times that are gone-of the good, and the wise, and the accomplished whom it has sheltered-and of the institutions and |