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.