text:  But the leading function of both must be supposed this--not to tell you any thing absolutely new _that_ was done by the actors in the drama; but to recall you to your own lurking thoughts--hidden for the moment or imperfectly developed and to place before you in immediate connexion with groups vanishing too quickly for any effort of meditation on your own part such commentaries prophetic or looking back pointing the moral or deciphering the mystery justifying Providence or mitigating the fierceness of anguish as would or might have occurred to your own meditative heart--had only time been allowed for its motions