rges; nor any other
contrivance but manfully enlisting in it, valiantly taking place
and step in it. O Heavens, will he not bethink himself; he too
is so needed in the Host! It were so blessed, thrice-blessed,
for himself and for us all! In hope of the Last Partridge, and
some Duke of Weimar among our English Dukes, we will be patient
yet a while.

The Future hides in it
Gladness and sorrow;
We press still thorow,
Nought that abides in it
Daunting us,--onward.

THE END

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Summary

Book I--Proem

Chap. I _Midas_

The condition of England one of the most ominous ever seen in
this world: Full of wealth in every kind, yet dying of
inanition; Workhouses, in which no work cane be done.
Destitution in Scotland. Stockport Assizes. England's
unprofitable success: Human faces glooming discordantly on one
another. Midas longed for gold, and the gods gave it him.

Chap. II. _The Sphinx_

The grand unnamable Sphinx-riddle, which each man is called upon
to solve. Notions of the foolish concerning justice and
judgment. Courts of Westminster, and the general High Court of
the Universe. The one strong thing, the just thing, the true
thing. A noble Conservatism, as well as an ignoble. In all
battles of men each fighter, in the end, prospers according to
his right: Wallace of Scotland. Fact and Semblance. What is
justice? As many men as there are in a Nation who can _see_
Heaven's justice, so many are there who stand between it
and perdition.

Chap. III. _Manchester Insurrection_

Peterloo not an unsuccessful Insurrection. Governors who wait
for Insurrection to instruct them, getting into the fatalest
courses. Unspeakable County Yeomanry. Poor Manchester
operatives, and their huge inarticulate question: Unhappy
Workers, unhappier idlers, of this actual England! Fair day's-
wages for fair day's-work: Milton's 'wages;' Cromwell's. Pay
to each man what he has earned and done and deserved; what more
have we to ask? Some not _in_supportable approximation
indispensable and inevitable.

Chap. IV. _Morrison's Pill_

A state of mind worth reflecting on. No Morrison's Pill for
curing the maladies of Society: Universal alteration of regimen
and way of life: Vain jargon giving place to some genuine Speech
again. If we walk according to the Law of this Universe, the
Law-Maker will befriend us; if not, not. Quacks, sham heroes,
the