# Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 752, May 25, 1878

Author: Various; Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 [Editor]; Chambers, William, 1800-1883 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Literature - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64035

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## Summary

By some seeming irony of Fate, it is when our fortunes have ebbed to their lowest, and all seems cold, bleak, and dreary in the threatening horizon before us, that light begins to break in upon the oppressive darkness. That we are never so likely to fall as when we deem ourselves to stand in boastful security, proud of our seeming strength, is a truth which the historical student will not be slow to recognise. Down comes the thunderbolt from a clear sky, toppling over to shameful ruin the gilded image propped on feet of sorry clay. But there is a substratum of fact whereon is reared the homely proverb which declares that when things are at the worst they will mend.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXX.—MAN PROPOSES.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-752-84dd81a2/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX.—FOUND.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-752-84dd81a2/chapters/1/index.md)