o be King of this Earth.
Chap. VII. _Over-Production_
An idle Governing Class addressing its Workers with an indictment
of 'Over-production.' Duty of justly apportioning the Wages
of Work done. A game-preserving Aristocracy, guiltless of
producing or apportioning anything. Owning the soil of England.
The Working Aristocracy steeped in ignoble Mammonism: The Idle
Aristocracy, with its yellow parchments and pretentious futilities.
Chap. VIII. _Unworking Aristocracy_
Our Land the _Mother_ of us all: No true Aristocracy but must
possess the Land. Men talk of 'selling' Land: Whom it belongs
to. Our much-consuming Aristocracy: By the law of their
position bound to furnish guidance and governance. Man and
miserable Corn-Laws. The Working Aristocracy, and its terrible
New-Work: The Idle Aristocracy, and its horoscope of despair. A
High Class without duties to do, like a tree planted on
precipices. In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful
making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie. The pagan
Hercules; the Czar of Russia. Parchments, venerable and not
venerable. Benedict the Jew, and his usuries. No Chapter on the
Corn-Laws: The Corn-Laws too mad to have a Chapter.
Chap. IX. _Working Aristocracy_
Many things for the Working Aristocracy, in their exteme need, to
consider. A national Existence supposed to depend on 'selling
cheaper' than any other People. Let inventive men try to invent
a little how cotton at its present cheapness could be somewhat
justlier divided. Many 'imposibilities' will have to become
possible. Supply-and-demand: For what noble work was there ever
yet any audible 'demand' in that poor sense?
Chap. X. _Plugson of Undershot_
Man's Philosophies usually the 'supplement of his practice:'
Symptoms of social death. Cash-Payment: The Plugson Ledger, and
the Tablets of heaven's Chancery, discrepant exceedingly. All
human things do require to have an Ideal in them. How murderous
fighting became a 'glorious Chivalry.' Noble devout-hearted
Chevaliers. Ignoble Bucaniers and Chactaw Indians: Howel
Davies, Napoleon flung out, at last, to St. Helena; the latter
end of him sternly compensating for the beginning. The
indomitable Plugson, as yet a Bacanier and Chactaw. William
Conqueror and his Norman followers. Organisation of Labour:
Courage, there are yet many brave men in England!
Chap. XI. _Labour_
A perennial nobleness and eve
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