BOOK IV.—HOROSCOPE.
Chap. I. Aristocracies.
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. (p. [297].)—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 'Splendour of God' did dwell in those old rude veracious ages. Old Anselm travelling to Rome, to appeal against King Rufus. Their quarrel at bottom a great quarrel. ([299].)—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. ([308].)
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 strange horoscopes of itself. (p. [312].)—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. ([315].)
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. (p. [318].)—Who can despair of Governments, that passes a Soldier's Guard-house?—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. ([321].)—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.' ([326].)—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. ([330].)
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. (p. [333].)—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 this world have required organising; and Work, the grandest of human interests, does now require it. ([335].)
Chap V. Permanence.
The 'tendency to persevere,' to persist in spite of hindrances, discouragements and 'impossibilities,' that which distinguishes the Species Man from the Genus Ape. Month-long contracts, and Exeter-Hall purblindness. A practical manufacturing Quaker's care for his workmen. (p. [341].)—Blessing of Permanent Contract: Permanence in all things, at the earliest possible moment, and to the latest possible. Vagrant Sam-Slicks. The wealth of a man the number of things he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. ([344].) The Worker's interest in the enterprise with which he is connected. How to reconcile Despotism with Freedom. ([346].)
Chap. VI. The Landed.
A man with fifty, with five hundred, with a thousand pounds a day, given him freely, without condition at all, might be a rather strong Worker: The sad reality, very ominous to look at. Will he awaken, be alive again; or is this death-fit very death?—Goethe's Duke of Weimar. Doom of Idleness. (p. [348].)—To sit idle aloft, like absurd Epicurus'-gods, a poor life for a man. Independence, 'lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye:' Rejection of sham Superiors, the needful preparation for obedience to real Superiors. ([351].)
Chap. VII. The Gifted.
Tumultuous anarchy calmed by noble effort into fruitful sovereignty. Mammon, like Fire, the usefulest of servants, if the frightfulest of masters. Souls to whom the omnipotent guinea is, on the whole, an impotent guinea: Not a May-game is this man's life, but a battle and stern pilgrimage: God's justice, human Nobleness, Veracity and Mercy, the essence of his very being. (p. [355].)—What a man of Genius is. The Highest 'Man of Genius.' Genius, the clearer presence of God Most High in a man. Of intrinsic Valetisms you cannot, with whole Parliaments to help you, make a Heroism. ([359].)
Chap. VIII. The Didactic.
One preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons. Repentant Captains of Industry: A Chactaw Fighter become a Christian Fighter (p. [361].)—Doomsday in the afternoon. The 'Christianity' that cannot get on without a minimum of Four-thousand-five-hundred, will give place to something better that can. Beautiful to see the brutish empire of Mammon cracking everywhere: A strange, chill, almost ghastly dayspring in Yankeeland itself. Here as there, Light is coming into the world. Whoso believes, let him begin to fulfil: 'Impossible,' where Truth and Mercy and the everlasting Voice of Nature order, can have no place in the brave man's dictionary. ([364].)—Not on Ilion's or Latium's plains; on far other plains and places henceforth can noble deeds be done. The last Partridge of England shot and ended: Aristocracies with beards on their chins. O, it is great, and there is no other greatness: To make some nook of God's Creation a little fruitfuler; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuler, happier: It is work for a God! ([365].)
INDEX.
Alison, Dr., [5], [185].
Anger, [114].
Anselm, travelling to Rome, [306].
Apes, Dead-Sea, [190], [270], [272].
Arab Poets, [107].
Aristocracy of Talent, [34];
dreadfully difficult to attain, [37], [41], [299];
our Phantasm-Aristocracy, [175], [215], [220], [242], [252], [270], [348], [364];
duties of an Aristocracy, [213], [220], [240];
Working Aristocracy, [216], [222], [335], [366];
no true Aristocracy, but must possess the Land, [218], [304];
Nature's Aristocracies, [264];
a Virtual Aristocracy everywhere and everywhen, [300];
the Feudal Aristocracy no imaginary one, [304], [338].
Army, the, [321].
Arrestment of the knaves and dastards, [43], [303].
Atheism, practical, [184], [192].
Battlefield, a, [238].
See Fighting.
Becket, [297], [307].
Beginnings, [157].
Benefactresses, [262].
Benthamee Radicalism, [36].
Berserkir rage, [205].
Bible of Universal History, [298].
Blockheads, danger of, [111].
Bobus of Houndsditch, [38], [41], [363].
Bonaparte flung out to St. Helena, [239].
Books, [51].
Bribery, [312].
Brindley, [199].
Bucaniering, [239].
Burns, [42], [108], [254], [350].
Byron's life-weariness, [193], [356].
Cant, [76].
Canute, King, [60].
Cash-payment not the sole relation of human beings, [183], [235], [242];
love of men cannot be bought with cash, [336].
Centuries, the, lineally related to each other, [51], [63].
Chactaw Indian, [238].
Champion of England, the, 'lifted into his saddle,' [176].
Chancery Law-Courts, [319], [322].
China, Pontiff-Emperor of, [290].
Chivalry of Labour, [237], [336], [341], [346], [355], [364].
Christianity, grave of, [174];
the Christian Law of God found difficult and inconvenient, [208];
the Christian Religion not accomplished by Prize-Essays, [233], [236], [251];
or by a minimum of Four-thousand-five-hundred, [363].
See New Testament.
Church, the English, [209], [322];
Church Articles, [280];
what a Church-Apparatus might do, [301].
Cœur-de-Lion, [57], [131];
King Richard, too, knew a man when he saw him, [144].
Colonies, England's sure markets among her, [329].
Columbus, royalest Sea-king of all, [248].
Competition and Devil take the hindmost, [229], [233];
abatement of, [334].
Conscience, [137], [281].
Conservatism, noble and ignoble, [12], [15];
John Bull a born Conservative, [203];
Justice alone capable of being 'conserved,' [205].
Corn-Laws, unimaginable arguments for the, [8], [30], [188], [203];
bitter indignation in every just English heart, [206];
ultimate basis of, [215];
mischief and danger of, [220], [226], [258];
after the Corn-Laws are ended, [231], [311], [318];
what William Conqueror would have thought of them, [266].
Cromwell, and his terrible lifelong wrestle, [24];
by far our remarkablest Governor, [275].
Crusades, the, [144].
Custom, reverence for, [203].
Dandy, the genus, [160].
Death, eternal, [286].
See Life.
Debt, [113].
Democracy, [260];
close of kin to Atheism, [267];
walking the streets everywhere, [310].
Despotism reconciled with Freedom, [346].
Destiny, didactic, [45].
Dilettantism, [60], [146], [154], [212];
gracefully idle in Mayfair, [188].
Dupes and Quacks, [33].
Duty, infinite nature of, [137], [145].
Economics, necessity of, [113].
Editor's, the purpose to himself full of hope, [46];
his stipulated work, [331].
Edmund, St., [65];
on the rim of the horizon, [136];
opening the Shrine of, [148].
Edmundsbury, St., [60].
Education Service, an effective, possible, [328].
Election, the one important social act, [94];
electoral winnowing-machines, [98], [106].
Emigration, [329].
England, full of wealth, yet dying of inanition, [3];
the guidance of, not wise enough, [34], [335];
England of the year '1200,' [57], [62], [79], [139], [303];
disappearance of our English Forests, [122];
this England, the practical summary of English Heroism, [165];
now nearly eaten up by puffery and unfaithfulness, [180];
real Hell of the English, [182];
of all Nations, the stupidest in speech, the wisest in action, [197], [211];
unspoken sadness, [200];
conservatism, [203];
Berserkir rage, [205];
a Future, wide as the world, if we have heart and heroism for it, [330].
Essex, Henry Earl of, [134], [281].
Experience, [361].
Fact and Semblance, [17]; and Fiction, [59].
Fame, the thing called, [161], [166].
See Posterity.
Fighting, all, an ascertainment who has the right to rule over whom, [17], [302];
murderous Fighting become a 'glorious Chivalry,' [237].
Flunkies, whom no Hero-King can reign over, [43].
See Valets.
Forests, disappearance of, [122].
Formulas, the very skin and muscular tissue of Man's Life, [157], [160].
Fornham, battle of, [65].
French Donothing Aristocracy, [223];
the French Revolution a voice of God, though in wrath, [286], [337].
Funerals, Cockney, [155].
Future, the, already extant though unseen, [308];
England's Future, [330].
See Past.
Geese, with feathers and without, [187].
Genius, what meant by, [107], [359].
Gideon's fleece, [247].
Gifted, the, [355].
God, forgetting, [171];
God's Justice, [238], [284];
belief in God, [275];
proceeding 'to invent God,' [281].
Goethe, [292], [350];
his Mason-Lodge, [293].
Gossip preferable to pedantry, [63];
seven centuries off, [92], [97].
Governing, art of, [110], [112];
Lazy Governments, [319];
every Government the symbol of its People, [333].
Great Man, a, [249].
See Wisdom.
Gurth, born thrall of Cedric the Saxon, [263], [303], [310].
Habit, the deepest law of human nature, [158].
Hampden's coffin opened, [149].
Happy, pitiful pretensions to be, [192];
happiness of getting one's work done, [195].
Hat, perambulating, seven-feet high, [177].
Healing Art, the, a sacred one, [5].
Heaven and Hell, our notions of, [181].
Heaven's Chancery, [236], [242].
Hell, real, of a man, [85];
Hell of the English, [182], [334].
Henry II. choosing an Abbot, [99];
his Welsh wars, [135];
on his way to the Crusades, [144];
our brave Plantagenet Henry, [302].
Henry VIII., [123].
Hercules, [225], [255].
Heroic Promised-Land, [45].
Hero-worship, [41], [70], [150], [153], [282], [305], [352];
what Heroes have done for us, [165], [179].
History, Philosophical, [297], [298].
Horses, able and willing to work, [28];
Goethe's thoughts about the Horse, [197].
Howel Davies, the Bucanier, [239].
Hugo, Abbot, old, feeble and improvident, [73];
his death, [78];
difficulties with Monk Samson, [90].
Ideal, the, in the Real, [73], [237].
Idleness alone without hope, [183];
Idle Aristocracy, [216], [222], [252], [348].
Igdrasil, the Life-Tree, [47], [161], [309].
Ignorance, our Period of, [299].
Iliad, the, [163].
Impossible, [24], [28];
without soul, all things impossible, [186];
every noble
work at first 'impossible,' [247], [255], [364].
Independence, [353].
Industry, Captains of, [240], [258], [335], [355], [362];
our Industrial Ages, [309].
Infancy and Maturity, [159].
Injustice the one thing intolerable, [262].
Insanity, strange affinity of Wisdom and, [256].
Insurrections, [19].
Invention, [161].
Irish Widow, an, proving her sisterhood, [186], [262].
Isolation the sum-total of wretchedness, [338].
Jew debts and creditors, [74], [113], [115];
Benedict and the tooth-forceps, [225].
Jocelm of Brakelond, [51];
his Boswellean Notebook seven centuries old, [52].
John, King, [57], [131].
Justice, the basis of all things, [12], [24], [138], [205];
what is Justice, [17], [266];
a just judge, [119];
venerable Wigged-Justice began in Wild-Justice, [164];
God's Justice alone strong, [238], [358].
See Parchments.
Kilkenny Cats, [319].
King, the true and the sham, [103], [110], [273];
the Ablest Man, the virtual King, [276];
again be a King, [310];
the proper name of all Kings, Minister, Servant, [320].
'Know thyself,' [244].
Labour, to be King of this Earth, [212];
Organisation of, [243], [260], [318];
perennial nobleness and sacredness in, [244].
See Chivalry, Work.
Laissez-faire, [229];
general breakdown of, [232], [233].
Lakenheath eels, [81].
Landlords, past and present, [67];
Landowning, [215];
whom the Land belongs to, [218];
the mission of a Land Aristocracy a sacred one, [305], [348].
Laughter, [189].
Law, gradual growth of, [163];
the Maker's Laws, [284].
See Chancery.
Legislative interference, [326].
Liberty, true meaning of, [263], [269].
Life, the, to come, [208], [286];
Life never a May-game for men, [261], [357].
Literature, noble and ignoble, [129].
Liturgies, [162].
Liverpool, [83].
Loadstar, a, in the eternal sky, [15].
Logical futilities, [199], [202].
Machinery, exporting, [228].
Mahomet, [351].
Mammon, not a god at all, [85];
Gospel of Mammonism, [181], [236];
Working Mammonism better than Idle Dilettantism, [183], [188], [257];
getting itself strangled, [228];
fall of Mammon, [334], [362];
Mammon like Fire, [355].
See Economics.
Man the Missionary of Order, [114], [285];
sacredness of the human Body, [155];
a born Soldier, [238];
a God-created Soul, [285].
See Great Man.
Manchester Insurrection, [19];
poor Manchester operatives, [22], [62];
Manchester in the twelfth century, [83];
even sooty Manchester built on the infinite Abysses, [283].
Marriage-contracts, [342], [344].
Master, eye of the, [114].
Meat-jack, a disconsolate, [195].
Methodism, [76], [84], [146].
Midas, [3], [9].
Mights and Rights, [238].
Millocracy, our giant, [175].
Milton's 'wages,' [24].
Misery, all, the fruit of unwisdom, [34];
strength, that has not yet found its way, [357].
Monks, ancient and modern, [55];
the old monks not without secularity, [76], [84];
insurrection of monks, [125].
Morality, [203].
Morrison's Pill, [29];
men's 'Religion' a kind of, [282].
Moses and the Dwellers by the Dead-Sea, [190].
Mungo Park, [262].
National Misery the result of national misguidance, [34].
Nationality, [159].
Nature, not dead, but alive and miraculous, [36].
Negro Slavery and White Nomadism, [342].
New Testament, [236], [359].
Nobleness, meaning of, [224].
Obedience, [110].
Oblivion a still resting-place, [166].
Organising, what may be done by, [323], [336].
Originality, [162].
See Path-making.
Over-production, charge of, [213], [253].
Pandarus Dogdraught, [305], [315].
Parchments, venerable and not venerable, [216], [225].
Parliament and the Courts of Westminster, [12], [319];
a Parliament starting with a lie in its mouth, [314].
Past, Present and Future, [47], [298], [310], [331].
Path-making, [158].
Pedantry, [61].
Permanence the first condition of all fruitfulness, [341], [344].
Peterloo, [21].
Pilate, [17].
Pity, [70].
Plugson of Undershot, [235], [257].
Pope, the old, with stuffed devotional rump, [173].
Posterity, appealing to, [279].
See Fame.
Potter's Wheel, significance of the, [245].
Practice, the Man of, [199].
Prayer, faithful unspoken, [284];
praying by working, [288].
Premier, what a wise, might do, [321].
See Windbag.
Priest, the noble, [300].
Puffery, all-deafening blast of, [177].
Puritanism, giving way to decent Formalism, [209].
Puseyism, [146], [364].
Quacks and sham-heroes, [33], [103], [177], [185], [277].
Quaker's, a manufacturing, care for his workmen, [343], [361].
Ready-Reckoner, strange state of our, [204].
Reform, like Charity, must begin at home, [43].
Religion, a great heaven-high Unquestionability, [76], [84], [145];
our religion gone, [171];
all true Work, Religion, [250];
foolish craving for a 'New Religion,' [280], [287];
inner light of a man's soul, [281].
See Prayer, Worship.
Richard I. See Cœur-de-Lion.
Robert de Montfort, [136].
Rokewood, Mr., [55].
Roman Conquests, [201].
Rome, a tour to, in the twelfth century, [88].
Russians, the silent, worth something, [198], [201];
the Czar of Russia, [225].
Saints and Sinners, [68].
Sam-Slicks, vagrant, [346].
Samson, Monk, teacher of the Novices, [77];
his parentage, dream, and dedication to St. Edmund, [87];
sent to Rome, [88];
home-tribulations, [90];
silence and weariness, [93];
though a servant of servants, his words all tell, [97];
elected Abbot, [102];
arrival at St. Edmundsbury, [105];
getting to work, [108], [112];
his favour for fit men, [117];
not unmindful of kindness, [118];
a just clear-hearted man, [119];
hospitality and stoicism, [121];
troubles and triumphs, [124];
in Parliament, [131];
practical devotion, [139];
Bishop of Ely outwitted, [141];
King Richard withstood, [143];
zealous interest in the Crusades, [144];
a glimpse of the Body of St. Edmund, [149];
the culminating point of his existence, [155].
Sanitary Reform, [326].
Satanas, the true, that now is, [302].
Sauerteig, on Nature, [35];
our reverence for Death and for Life, [155];
the real Hell of the English, [182];
fashionable Wits, [189];
symbolic influences of Washing, [289].
Saxon Heptarchy, [17].
Schnüspel, the distinguished Novelist, [70].
Scotch Covenanters, [278].
Scotland, destitution in, [5].
Scott, Sir W., on the Apennines, [345].
Selfishness, [36], [41].
Silence, invaluable talent of, [120], [201], [298];
unsounded depth of, [249], [251];
two Silences of Eternity, [283].
Sliding-Scales, [223], [231].
See Corn-Laws.
Soldier, the, [321].
Sorrow, Worship of, [192].
Soul and conscience, need for some, [32], [98], [237], [287];
to save the 'expense of salt,' [62];
man has lost the soul out of him, [172], [191].
Speech and jargon, difference between, [31];
invention of articulate speech, [161];
insincere speech, [189];
the Speaking Man wandering terribly from the point, [301].
See Silence.
Sphinx-riddle of Life, the, [10], [17];
our Sphinx-riddle, [22].
Spinning Dervishes, [319].
Sumptuary Laws, [269].
Supply-and-demand, [232].
Tailor-art, symbolism of the, [267].
Taxes, where to lay the new, [304].
Tears, beautifulest kind of, [70].
Teufelsdröckh on Democracy, [267].
Theory, the Man of, [199].
Thersites, [352].
Thirty-nine Articles, [280].
Tools and the Man, [308], [310].
Unanimity in folly, [179].
Unconscious, the, the alone complete, [145].
Universe, general High Court of the, [13], [31], [225];
a great unintelligible 'Perhaps,' [171];
become the Humbug it was thought to be, [190];
a beggarly Universe, [234];
the Universe made by Law, [284].
Unseen, the, [255].
Unwisdom, infallible fruits of, [39].
Vacuum, and the serene Blue, [234].
Valets and Heroes, [32], [103], [185], [273], [360];
London valets dismissed annually to the streets, [342].
See Flunkies.
Wages, fair day's, for fair day's work, [24], [253].
Wallace, Scotland's debt to, [16].
Washing, symbolic influences of, [289].
Wealth, true, [345], [362].
Weimar, Duke of, [350].
Willelmus Conquæstor, [83], [241];
a man of most flashing discernment and strong lion-heart, [265];
not a vulturous Fighter, but a valorous Governor, [302].
Willelmus Sacrista, [74], [86], [91], [101], [115].
William Rufus; 302, [306];
the quarrel of Rufus and Anselm a great quarrel, [307].
Windbag, Sir Jabesh, [166], [275].
Wisdom, how, has to struggle with Folly, [91], [92], [97], [163], [264];
the higher the Wisdom the closer its kindred with Insanity, [256];
a wisest path for every man, [271];
the Wise and Brave properly but one class, [300], [303], [366];
the life of the Gifted not a May-game, but a battle and stern pilgrimage, [357].
Wits, fashionable, [189].
Women, born worshippers, [70].
Work, world-wide accumulated, [164];
endless hope in work, [183], [244];
all work noble, [192];
and eternal, [195];
the work he has done, an epitome of the Man, [198], [246];
Work is Worship, [250], [288];
all Work a making of Madness sane, [256].
See Labour.
Workhouses, in which no work can be done, [4].
Working Aristocracy, [216], [222], [335], [366];
getting strangled, [228].
Workmen, English, unable to find work, [4], [23];
intolerable lot, [261].
Worship, Forms of, [162];
Scenic Theory of, [174];
Apelike, [190];
the truest, [250], [288].
See Religion.
Worth, human, and Worthlessness, [103].
See Pandarus.
Yankee Transcendentalists, [363].
END OF PAST AND PRESENT.