To predict the Future, to manage the Present, would not be so impossible, had not the Past been so sacrilegiously mishandled: a godless century, looking back to centuries that were godly. A new real Aristocracy and Priesthood. The noble Priest always a noble _Aristos_ to begin with, and something more to end with. Modern Preachers, and the _real_ Satanas that now is. Abbot- Samson and William-Conqueror times. The mission of a Land Aristocracy a _sacred_ one, in both senses of that old word. Truly a 'Splendor of God' did dwell in those old rude veracious ages. Old Anselm traveling to Rome, to appeal against King Rufus. Their quarrel at bottom a great quarrel. The boundless future, predestined, nay already extant though unseen. Our Epic, not _Arms and the Man,_ but _Tools and the Man;_ an infinitely wider kind of Epic. Important that our grand Reformation were begun. Chap. II. _Bribery Committee_ Our theory, perfect purity of Tenpound Franchise; our practice, irremediable bribery. Bribery, indicative not only of length of purse, but of brazen dishonesty: Proposed improvements. A parliament, starting with a lie in its mouth, promulgates strage horoscopes of itself. Respect paid to those worthy of no respect: Pandarus Dogdraught. The indigent discerning Freeman; and the kind of men he is called upon to vote for. Chap. III. _The One Institution_ The 'Organisation of Labour,' if well understood, the Problem of the whole Future. Governments of various degrees of utility. Kilkenny Cats; spinning-Dervishes; Parliamentary eloquence. A prime-Minister who would dare believe the heavenly omens. Who can despair of Governments, that passes a Soldier's Guardhouse?-- Incalculable what, by arranging, commanding and regimenting, can be made of men. Organisms enough in the dim huge Future; and 'United Services' quite other than the red-coat one. Legislative interference between Workers and master-Workers increasingly indispensable. Sanitary Reform: People's Parks: A right Education Bill, and effective Teaching Service. Free bridge for emigrants: England's sure markets among her colonies. London the _All-Saxon-Home,_ rendezvous of all the 'Children of the Harz-Rock.' The English essentially conservative: Always the invincible instinct to hold fast by the Old, to admit the _minimum_ of New. Yet new epochs do actually come; and with them new peremptory necessities. A certain Editor's stipulated work. Chap. IV. _Captains of Industry_ Government can do much, but it can in nowise do all. Fall of Mammon: to be a noble Master among noble Workers, will again be the first ambition with some few. The Leaders of Industry, virtually the Captains of the world: doggeries and Chivalries. Isolation, the sum-total of wretchedness to man. All social growths in the world have required organising; and work, the grandest of human interests, does now require it. Chap. V. _Permanence_