There are some who fear lest too pervading a belief in that other world may make men indifferent to the loveliness and irresponsive to the woes of _this_. Yet must that needs be so? or might we not treat even this world’s problems with steadier heart, could we regain,--from some surer foothold in the Invisible,--that ancient serenity of the Saints? Watching that ardent soul, whose very raptures trembled on the brink of pain, I have thought that even from Ruskin’s delight in Nature something of a bitter yearning might have been soothed away, could he have seen in stream and moorland, nay even in great Skiddaw’s self, who shrouds His double head among Atlantic clouds, And pours forth streams more sweet than Castaly;-- could he have seen, I say, in these, as Plato saw in Castaly or in Hymettus, only the transitory adumbration and perishing symbol of somewhat more enduring and more fair. Nay, even from his compassion for stunted and erring souls might not the burning pain have gone, could he have seen those souls as Er the Paphlagonian saw them, marshalled in an everlasting order, of which but a moment’s glimpse is shown;--till even “this last” of men shall follow out, through all vicissitude, his endless and his mounting way? And turning then, with heart full of such-like fancies, to that well-loved Leader’s fate;--imagining his baffled isolation, and the disheartenment of solitary years;--I have pictured him waiting in the Coniston woodlands, as Œdipus in Colonus’ grove,--waiting in mournful memory, in uncomplaining calm--till he should hear at last the august summons,--nay, sounded it not like the loving banter?--of the unguessed accompanying God. “Come, Œdipus, why linger on our journey? Thou hast kept me waiting long.” INDEX Abbey Dale, land at, 163 Alexander, Francesca, 52 Ancoats Art Museum, 255 Aristocracy, 135, 142 Artistical Pharisaism, 70 Assisi, 48 Authority in Religion, 67 Bacon on Usury, 189, 197 Baker, George, 74, 163 Baptism, 66 Bastiat, 189, 190 Beever, Miss, 50, 52 Bequest limited, 188, 189 Bible not the word of God, 62; on Usury, 194, 196 Bishop of Manchester, 201, 202 Bishops, 60, 61, 141, 142 Breaking the Sabbath, 31 Broadlands, 48, 261 Builders’ Parliament, 155, 156 Capitalists and War, 203 _Cestus of Aglaia_, quoted on locomotive, 250, 251 Christ’s sheep, 65, 67 Church, 64; discipline, 68 Claughton, land at, 163 Clergy, 55-61, 138 Coal, 233 Coinage under St. George, 166 Cole, Mr. G. H. D., 152, 157, 158 Communist colonies, 133 Competition allowed, 140 _Crown of Wild Olive_, Lecture on War analysed, 204-210; Appendix to, quoted, 210-213 Democracy, 158 Division of labour, 227-230 Doukhobors, 133, 199 Duke, 142 Dull work, 246-248 _Eagle’s Nest_, quoted from, 41, 42, 67, 74 _Ethics of the Dust_, 63 Factory System, 136 Farming, 226, 227 Fawcett, Mrs., 189 _Fors Clavigera_, quoted _passim_, 131-132; passages on War, 214-218