all things are _im_possible: Infatuated
geese, with feathers and without.

Chap. III. _Gospel of Dilettantism_

Mammonism at least works; but 'Go gracefully idle in Mayfair,'
what does or can that mean?--Impotent, insolent Donothingism in
Practice and Saynothingism in Speech. No man now speaks a plain
word: Insincere Speech the prime material of insincere Action.
Moslem parable of Moses and the Dwellers by the Dead sea: The
Universe _become_ a Humbug to the Apes that thought it one.

Chap. IV. _Happy_

All work noble; and every noble crown a crown of thorns. Man's
pitiful pretension to be what he calls "happy;" His Greatest-
Happiness Principle fast becoming a rather unhappy one. Byron's
large audience. A philosophical Doctor: A disconsolate Meat-
jack, gnarring and creaking with rust and work. The only
'happiness' a brave man ever troubled himself much about, the
happiness to get his work done.

Chap. V. _The English_

With all thy theoretic platitudes, what a depth of practical
sense in thee, great England! A dumb people, who can do great
acts, but not describe them. The noble Warhorse, and the Dog of
Knowledge: The freest utterances not by any means the best. The
done Work, much more than the spoken Word, an epitome of the man.
The Man of Practice, and the Man of Theory: Ineloquent Brindley.
The English, of all Nations the stupidest in speech, the wisest
in action: Sadness and seriousness: Unconsciously this great
Universe is great to them. The silent Romans. John Bull's
admirable insensibility to Logic. All great Peoples
conservative. Kind of Ready-Reckoner a Solecism in East-cheap.
Berserkir rage. Truth and Justice alone _capable_ of being
'conserved.' Bitter indignation engendered by the Corn-Laws in
every just English heart.

Chap. VI. _Two Centuries_

The 'Settlement' of the year 1660 one of the mournfulest that
ever took place in this land of ours. The true end of Government
to guide men in the way they should go: The true good of this
life, the portal of infinite good in the life to come. Oliver
Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn gallows, the type of
Puritanism found futil, inexecutable, execrable. The
Spiritualism of England, for two godless centuries, utterly
forgettable: Her practical material Work alone memorable.
Bewildering obscurations and impediments: Valiant Sons of Toil
enchanted, by the million, in their Poor-Law Bastille. Giant
Labour yet t