npromising Horn-gate, Teufelsdroeckh,
and we by means of him, have led thee into the true Land of Dreams;
and through the Clothes-screen, as through a magical _Pierre-Pertuis_,
thou lookest, even for moments, into the region of the Wonderful, and
seest and feelest that thy daily life is girt with Wonder, and based
on Wonder, and thy very blankets and breeches are Miracles,--then art
thou profited beyond money's worth; and hast a thankfulness towards
our Professor; nay, perhaps in many a literary Tea-circle wilt open
thy kind lips, and audibly express that same.

Nay farther, art not thou too perhaps by this time made aware that all
Symbols are properly Clothes; that all Forms whereby Spirit manifests
itself to sense, whether outwardly or in the imagination, are Clothes;
and thus not only the parchment Magna Charta, which a Tailor was nigh
cutting into measures, but the Pomp and Authority of Law, the
sacredness of Majesty, and all inferior Worships (Worthships) are
properly a Vesture and Raiment; and the Thirty-nine Articles
themselves are articles of wearing-apparel (for the Religious Idea)?
In which case, must it not also be admitted that this Science of
Clothes is a high one, and may with infinitely deeper study on thy
part yield richer fruit: that it takes scientific rank beside
Codification, and Political Economy, and the Theory of the British
Constitution; nay rather, from its prophetic height looks down on all
these, as on so many weaving-shops and spinning-mills, where the
Vestures which _it_ has to fashion, and consecrate and distribute,
are, too often by haggard hungry operatives who see no farther than
their nose, mechanically woven and spun?

But omitting all this, much more all that concerns Natural
Supernaturalism, and indeed whatever has reference to the Ulterior or
Transcendental portion of the Science, or bears never so remotely on
that promised Volume of the _Palingenesie der menschlichen
Gesellschaft_ (Newbirth of Society),--we humbly suggest that no
province of Clothes-Philosophy, even the lowest, is without its direct
value, but that innumerable inferences of a practical nature may be
drawn therefrom. To say nothing of those pregnant considerations,
ethical, political, symbolical, which crowd on the Clothes-Philosopher
from the very threshold of his Science; nothing even of those
'architectural ideas,' which, as we have seen, lurk at the bottom of
all Modes, and will one day, better unfolding thems