arity; and _after_ those five
years, an Eternity. Oliver has to appear before the Most High
Judge: Windbag, appealing to 'Posterity.'

Chap. XV. _Morison Again_

New Religions: This new stage of progress, proceeding 'to invent
God,' a very strange one indeed. Religion, the Inner Light or
Moral Conscience of a man's soul. Infinite difference between a
Good man and a Bad. The Great soul of the World, just and not
unjust: Faithful, unspoken, but not ineffectual 'prayer.'
Penalities: The French Revolution; cruelest Portent that has
risen into created Space these ten centuries. Man needs no "New
Religion;" nor is like to get it: spiritual Dastardism, and
sick folly. One Liturgy which does remain forever
unexceptionable, that of _Praying by Working._ Sauerteig on the
symbolic influences of Washing. Chinese Pontiff-Emperor and his
significant 'punctualities.' Goethe and German Literature. The
great event for the world, now as always, the arrival in it of a
new Wise Man. Goethe's _Mason-Lodge._

Book IV.--Horoscope

Chap. I. _Aristocracies_

To predict the Future, to manage the Present, would not be so
impossible, had not the Past been so sacrilegiously mishandled:
a godless century, looking back to centuries that were godly. A
new real Aristocracy and Priesthood. The noble Priest always a
noble _Aristos_ to begin with, and something more to end with.
Modern Preachers, and the _real_ Satanas that now is. Abbot-
Samson and William-Conqueror times. The mission of a Land
Aristocracy a _sacred_ one, in both senses of that old word.
Truly a 'Splendor of God' did dwell in those old rude veracious
ages. Old Anselm traveling to Rome, to appeal against King
Rufus. Their quarrel at bottom a great quarrel. The boundless
future, predestined, nay already extant though unseen. Our
Epic, not _Arms and the Man,_ but _Tools and the Man;_ an
infinitely wider kind of Epic. Important that our grand
Reformation were begun.

Chap. II. _Bribery Committee_

Our theory, perfect purity of Tenpound Franchise; our practice,
irremediable bribery. Bribery, indicative not only of length of
purse, but of brazen dishonesty: Proposed improvements. A
parliament, starting with a lie in its mouth, promulgates strage
horoscopes of itself. Respect paid to those worthy of no
respect: Pandarus Dogdraught. The indigent discerning Freeman;
and the kind of men he is called upon to vote for.

Chap. III. _T