How many we hear speaking about the spirit of the age, and, yet, how few are prepared to define that creature of the mind, to tell exactly in what it consists, whence it springs, what role it plays in the great drama of existence or what influences it posessess When we speak of the age, we doubtlessly refer to the century in which we live-consequently from the expression the spirit of the age we naturally infer that each successive period in the history of the world has had its particular spirit, different from that which held sway in preceding or succeeding epochs, and that our age has also...