8. One might readily guess (if there were no example of it) that any violation of a Principle so fundamental would be avenged by Nature upon the planet which violated it. 9. Our planet is such an example: for here Two Separate Violations of the Principle appear; each great in itself; but one small in comparison. 10. Accordingly, for the small violation Nature has not failed to send upon Man a small penalty; and for the great violation great penalties. 11. The small violation consists in the claim by nations to have taken, without having moved, sites called “countries”. 12. For this Nature has sent upon man the small penalty of War. 13. To abolish War men must remove its cause. Therefore let the site-rental of England (i.e., the excess of English goods over what English goods would be, if no other country existed) be handed over to a World Council; and the site-rental of America to the same; and the World Council shall disburse such funds for the majesty and joy of Man: and War shall terminate. 14. This way the Lord of the Sea indicates to the world, though with its initiation he is not personally concerned. 15. Beside the small violation of the Fundamental Principle of Society, there is a great on the earth. 16. The Great Violation consists in the claim by individuals to have taken, without having moved, sites and soils called “estates”, “domains”, “plots”: for, as rent tends to rightness when paid to the fifty millions of a nation, _fifty-millionfold_ is its wrongness when paid to one; and as rent is right when paid to the thousand million inhabitants of a planet, _a thousand-millionfold_ is its wrongness when paid to one. 17. For this Great Violation of the Fundamental Principle of Society Nature has sent upon Man great penalties: poverties, frenzies, depravities, horrors, sorrows, lowness, dulness. 18. Lowness, dulness: for by far the greatest of these penalties is a restraint on Man's development. Man is an animal, Man is a mind: and since the wing of mind is Pride, Assurance, or Self-esteem, and since the home of an animal is a Planet, and an animal without a home is a thing without Assurance or Pride, so Man without Earth is a mind without wing. Even so, a few, having Assurance, make what we call “Progress”, i.e., the discovering of truth--a crawling which might become flight, had all minds but the wing of Pride to co-operate in discovering truth. But Man lacks assurance and foothold, founded home and domain: his sole heritage, though he is neither fish nor fowl, being sea and air. 19. This is a great violation. 20. And with this great violation of the Fundamental Principle of Society the Lord of the Sea is personally concerned. In the name of Heaven and of Earth he urges upon the nations of men to amend it in the month of the promulgation of this Manifesto: and this summons he strengthens with a threat of his resentment. As the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth, I will see to it. RICHARD. XXXIX THE “BOODAH'S” LOCK-UP