lear to us; this namely: That a 'Splendour of God,'
in one form or other, will have to unfold itself from the heart
of these our Industrial Ages too; or they will never get
themselves 'organised;' but continue chaotic, distressed,
distracted evermore, and have to perish in frantic suicidal
dissolution. A second 'outline' or prophecy, narrower, but also
wide enough, seems not less certain: That there will again _be_
a King in Israel; a system of Order and Government; and every
man shall, in some measure, see himself constrained to do that
which is right in the King's eyes. This too we may call a sure
element of the Future; for this too is of the Eternal;--this too
is of the Present, though hidden from most; and without it no
fibre of the Past ever was. An actual new Sovereignty,
Industrial Aristocracy, real not imaginary Aristocracy, is
indispensable and indubitable for us.

But what an Aristocracy; on what new, far more complex and
cunningly devised conditions than that old Feudal fighting one!
For we are to bethink us that the Epic verily is not _Arms and
the Man,_ but _Tools and the Man,_--an infinitely wider kind of
Epic. And again we are to bethink us that men cannot now be
bound to men by _brass-collars,_--not at all: that this brass-
collar method, in all figures of it, has vanished out of Europe
forevermore! Huge Democracy, walking the streets everywhere in
its Sack Coat, has asserted so much; irrevocably, brooking no
reply! True enough, man _is_ forever the 'born thrall' of
certain men, born master of certain other men, born equal of
certain others, let him acknowledge the fact or not. It is
unblessed for him when he cannot acknowledge this fact; he is in
the chaotic state, ready to perish, till he do get the fact
acknowledged. But no man is, or can henceforth be, the brass-
collar thrall of any man; you will have to bind him by other,
far nobler and cunninger methods. Once for all, he is to be
loose of the brass-collar, to have a scope as wide as his
faculties now are:--will he not be all the usefuler to you, in
that new state? Let him go abroad as a trusted one, as a free
one; and return home to you with rich earnings at night! Gurth
could only tend pigs; this one will build cities, conquer waste
worlds.--How, in conjunction with inevitable Democracy,
indispensable Sovereignty is to exist: certainly it is the
hugest question ever heretofore propounded to Mankind! The
solution o