[Footnote 714:  I own I am gladdened, etc.  Emerson always held fast to the consoling thought that there was no evil without good, none out of which Good did not or could not come.]

[Footnote 715:  Sempiternal.  Everlasting; eternal.]

[Footnote 716:  Oliver Cromwell.  An Englishman of the middle classes who became the military and civil leader of the English Revolution of the seventeenth century.  He refused the title of king; but as Lord Protector of the English commonwealth, he exercised royal power.]