God; for has it not been? From of old, as it is written, are His goings
forth; in the great Deep of things; fearful and wonderful now as in the
beginning: in the whirlwind also He speaks! and the wrath of men is made
to praise Him.--But to gauge and measure this immeasurable Thing, and
what is called account for it, and reduce it to a dead logic-formula,
attempt not! Much less shalt thou shriek thyself hoarse, cursing it;
for that, to all needful lengths, has been already done. As an actually
existing Son of Time, look, with unspeakable manifold interest, oftenest
in silence, at what the Time did bring: therewith edify, instruct,
nourish thyself, or were it but to amuse and gratify thyself, as it is
given thee.

Another question which at every new turn will rise on us, requiring
ever new reply is this: Where the French Revolution specially is? In
the King's Palace, in his Majesty's or her Majesty's managements, and
maltreatments, cabals, imbecilities and woes, answer some few:--whom we
do not answer. In the National Assembly, answer a large mixed multitude:
who accordingly seat themselves in the Reporter's Chair; and therefrom
noting what Proclamations, Acts, Reports, passages of logic-fence,
bursts of parliamentary eloquence seem notable within doors, and what
tumults and rumours of tumult become audible from without,--produce
volume on volume; and, naming it History of the French Revolution,
contentedly publish the same. To do the like, to almost any extent, with
so many Filed Newspapers, Choix des Rapports, Histoires Parlementaires
as there are, amounting to many horseloads, were easy for us. Easy but
unprofitable. The National Assembly, named now Constituent Assembly,
goes its course; making the Constitution; but the French Revolution also
goes its course.

In general, may we not say that the French Revolution lies in the heart