ictory is but half a
victory; and that now, if it please the Powers, we must--have
the other half!

Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded,
will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions,
obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction
of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind! 'Protection of
property,' of what is _'mine,'_ means with most men protection of
money,--the thing which, had I a thousand padlocks over it, is
least of all _mine;_ is, in a manner, scarcely worth calling
mine! The symbol shall be held sacred, defended everywhere with
tipstaves, ropes and gibbets; the thing signified shall be
composedly cast to the dogs. A human being who has worked with
human beings clears all scores with them, cuts himself with
triumphant completeness forever loose from them, by paying down
certain shillings and pounds. Was it not the wages I promised
you? There they are, to the last sixpence,--according to the
Laws of the Bucaniers!--Yes, indeed;--and, at such times, it
becomes imperatively necessary to ask all persons, bucaniers and
others, Whether these same respectable Laws of the Bucaniers are
written on God's eternal Heavens at all, on the inner Heart of
Man at all; or on the respectable Bucanier Logbook merely, for
the convenience of bucaniering merely? What a question;--whereat
Westminster Hall shudders to its driest parchment; and on the
dead wigs each particular horsehair stands on end!

The Laws of Laissez-faire, O Westminster, the laws of industrial
Captain and industrial Soldier, how much more of idle Captain and
industrial Soldier, will need to be remodelled, and modified, and
rectified in a hundred and a hundred ways,--and _not_ in the
Sliding-scale direction, but in the totally opposite one! With
two million industrial Soldiers already sitting in Bastilles, and
five million pining on potatoes, methinks Westminster cannot
begin too soon!--A man has other obligations laid on him, in
God's Universe, than the payment of cash: these also
Westminster, if it will continue to exist and have board-wages,
must contrive to take some charge of:--by Westminster or by
another, they must and will be taken charge of; be, with
whatever difficulty, got articulated, got enforced, and to a
certain approximate extent, put in practice. And, as I say, it
cannot be too soon! For Mammonism, left to itself, has become
Midas-eared; and with all its gold mounta