Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Social problems
Man must actually have his debts and earnings a little better
paid by man. At no time was the lot of the dumb millions of
toilers so entirely unbearable as now. Sisterhood, brotherhood
often forgotten, but never before so expressly denied. Mungo
Park and his poor Black Benefactress. Gurth, born thrall of
Cedric the Saxon: Liberty a divine thing; but 'liberty to die
by starvation' not so divine. Nature's Aristocracies. William
Conqueror, a resident House-Surgeon provided by nature for her
beloved English People. Democracy, the despair of finding Heroes
to govern us, and contented putting-up with the want of them.
The very Tailor unconsciously symbolising the reign of Equality.
Wherever ranks do actually exist, strict division of costumes
will also be enforced. Freedom from oppression, an indispensable
yet most insignificant portion of Human Liberty. A _best path_
does exist for every man; a thing which, here and now, it
were of all things _wisest_ for him to do. Mock Superiors and
Real Superiors.
Chap. XIV. _Sir Jabesh Windbag_
Oliver Cromwell, the remarkablest Governor we have had for the
last five centuries or so: No vulunteer in Public Life, but
plainly a balloted soldier: The Government of England put into
his hands. Windbag, weak in the faith of a God; strong only in
the faith that Paragraphs and Plausibilities bring votes. Five
years of popularity or unpopularity; and _after_ those five
years, an Eternity. Oliver has to appear before the Most High
Judge: Windbag, appealing to 'Posterity.'
Chap. XV. _Morison Again_
New Religions: This new stage of progress, proceeding 'to invent
God,' a very strange one indeed. Religion, the Inner Light or
Moral Conscience of a man's soul. Infinite difference between a
Good man and a Bad. The Great soul of the World, just and not
unjust: Faithful, unspoken, but not ineffectual 'prayer.'
Penalities: The French Revolution; cruelest Portent that has
risen into created Space these ten centuries. Man needs no "New
Religion;" nor is like to get it: spiritual Dastardism, and
sick folly. One Liturgy which does remain forever
unexceptionable, that of _Praying by Working._ Sauerteig on the
symbolic influences of Washing. Chinese Pontiff-Emperor and his
significant 'punctualities.' Goethe and German Literature. The
great event for the world, now as always, the arrival in it of a
new Wise Man. Goethe's _Mason-Lodge._
Book IV.--Horoscope
Chap. I. _Aristocracies_
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