sis to stand on in this Universe. The
like had the Prussian-Austrian one; so all men now admit. If Friedrich
had not business there, what man ever had in an enterprise he ventured
on? Friedrich, after such trial and proof as has seldom been, got
his claims on Schlesien allowed by the Destinies. His claims on
Schlesien;--and on infinitely higher things; which were found to be his
and his Nation's, though he had not been consciously thinking of them
in making that adventure. For, as my poor Friend insists, there ARE Laws
valid in Earth and in Heaven; and the great soul of the world is just.
Friedrich had business in this War; and Maria Theresa VERSUS Friedrich
had likewise cause to appear in court, and do her utmost pleading
against him.

But if we ask, What Belleisle or France and Louis XV. had to do there?
the answer is rigorously, Nothing. Their own windy vanities, ambitions,
sanctioned not by fact and the Almighty Powers, but by phantasm and the
babble of Versailles; transcendent self-conceit, intrinsically insane;
pretensions over their fellow-creatures which were without basis
anywhere in Nature, except in the French brain alone: it was this that
brought Belleisle and France into a German War. And Belleisle and France
having gone into an Anti-Pragmatic War, the unlucky George and his
England were dragged into a Pragmatic one,--quitting their own business,
on the Spanish Main, and hurrying to Germany,--in terror as at Doomsday,
and zeal to save the Keystone of Nature these. That is the notable point
in regard to this War: That France is to be called the author of it,
who, alone of all the parties, had no business there whatever. And the
wages due to France for such a piece of industry,--the reader will yet
see what wages France and the other parties got, at the tail of the
affair. For that too is apparent in our day.

We have often said, the Spanish-English War was itself likely to
have kindled Europe; and again Friedrich's Silesian War was itself
likely,--France being nearly sure to interfere. But if both these Wars
were necessary ones, and if France interfered in either of them on the
wrong side, the blame will be to France, not to the necessary Wars.
France could, in no way, have interfered in a more barefacedly unjust
and gratuitous manner than she now did; nor, on any terms, have so
palpably made herself the author of the conflagration of deliriums
that ensued for above Seven years henceforth. Nay for above Twe