Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Social problems
One grand 'outline,' or even two, many earnest readers may
perhaps, at this stage of the business, be able to prefigure for
themselves,--and draw some guidance from. One prediction, or
even two, are already possible. For the Life-tree Igdrasil, in
all its new developments, is the selfsame world-old Life-tree:
having found an element or elements there, running from the very
roots of it in Hela's Realms, in the Well of Mimer and of the
Three Nornas or TIMES, up to this present hour of it in our own
hearts, we conclude that such will have to continue. A man has,
in his own soul, an Eternal; can read something of the Eternal
there, if he will look! He already knows what will continue;
what cannot, by any means or appliance whatsoever, be made
to continue!
One wide and widest 'outline' ought really, in all ways, to be
becoming clear to us; this namely: That a 'Splendour of God,'
in one form or other, will have to unfold itself from the heart
of these our Industrial Ages too; or they will never get
themselves 'organised;' but continue chaotic, distressed,
distracted evermore, and have to perish in frantic suicidal
dissolution. A second 'outline' or prophecy, narrower, but also
wide enough, seems not less certain: That there will again _be_
a King in Israel; a system of Order and Government; and every
man shall, in some measure, see himself constrained to do that
which is right in the King's eyes. This too we may call a sure
element of the Future; for this too is of the Eternal;--this too
is of the Present, though hidden from most; and without it no
fibre of the Past ever was. An actual new Sovereignty,
Industrial Aristocracy, real not imaginary Aristocracy, is
indispensable and indubitable for us.
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