hard;--and can say, and
guarantee on my life, That in him is no rebellion; that in him
is the reverse of rebellion, the needful preparation for
obedience. For if you do mean to obey God-made superiors, your
first step is to sweep out the Tailormade ones; order them,
under penalties, to vanish, to make ready for vanishing!

Nay, what is best of all, he cannot rebel, if he would.
Superiors whom God has made for us we cannot order to withdraw!
Not in the least. No Grand-Turk himself, thickest-quilted
tailor-made Brother of the Sun and Moon can do it: but an Arab
Man, in cloak of his own clouting; with black beaming eyes, with
flaming sovereign-heart direct from the centre of the Universe;
and also, I am told, with terrible 'horse-shoe vein' of swelling
wrath in his brow, and lightning (if you will not have it as
light) tingling through every vein of him,--he rises; says
authoritatively: "Thickest-quilted Grand-Turk, tailor-made
Brother of the Sun and Moon, No:--_I_ withdraw not; thou shalt
obey me or withdraw!" And so accordingly it is: thickest-
quilted Grand-Turks and all their progeny, to this hour,
obey that man in the remarkablest manner; preferring _not_
to withdraw.

O brother, it is an endless consolation to me, in this
disorganic, as yet so quack-ridden, what you may well call hag-
ridden and hell-ridden world, to find that disobedience to the
Heavens, when they send any messenger whatever, is and remains
impossible. It cannot be done; no Turk grand or small can do
it. 'Skew the dullest clodpole,' says my invaluable German
friend, 'shew the haughtiest featherhead, that a soul higher than
himself is here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must
down and worship.

Chapter VII

The Gifted

Yes, in what tumultuous huge anarchy soever a Noble human
Principle may dwell and strive, such tumult is in the way of
being calmed into a fruitful sovereignty. It is inevitable. No
Chaos can continue chaotic with a soul in it. Besouled with
earnest human Nobleness, did not slaughter, violence and fire-
eyed fury, grow into a Chivalry; into a blessed Loyalty of
Governor and Governed? And in Work, which is of itself noble,
and the only true fighting, there shall be no such possibility?
Believe it not; it is incredible; the whole Universe
contradicts it. Here too the Chactaw Principle will be
subordinated; the Man Principle will, by degrees, become
superior, become supreme.

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