In reality, very few members of the first-night audience, or of any other, can have depended on old Angela's vaticination for the requisite foresight of events.

The pastimes of Eden were perhaps not favorable to vaticinations in the line of Natural History, but in the progress of the world since those most primitive times, men have come to contemplate the spectacle of that familiar barn-yard fowl made wretched by the aquatic propensities of her supposed offspring, without a particle of astonishment.

So that angels are born, as it were, from the noble fears of man,from an heroic fear in man's heart that he shall fall away from the privilege of humanity, and falsify the divine vaticination of his soul.