text:  The theologic school has generally no other method of explaining this decomposition of the old system than by causes merely accidental or personal out of all reasonable proportion with the magnitude of the results; or else when hard driven it has recourse to its ordinary artifice and attempts to explain all by an appeal to the will of Providence to whom is ascribed the intention of raising a time of trial for the social order of which the commencement the duration and the character are all left equally obscure