His themes are, on the one hand, the development of God, and, on the other, the fall and redemption, which mean for him, however, not merely inner phenomena, but world-events.

Abstract political ideas, purely intellectual phenomena, have found their annalists, as well as executive enterprise; events have been analyzed, as well as described,characters discussed, as well as pictured,the elements of society laid bare with as much zeal and scrutiny as its development has been traced and delineated.