infernal, with an emphasis that will again penetrate the thickest
head of this Planet by and by!--

Indisputable enough to all mortals now, the guidance of this
country has not been sufficiently wise: men too foolish have
been set to the guiding and governing of it, and have guided it
hither; we must find wiser,--_wiser,_ or else we perish! To
this length of insight all England has now advanced; but as yet
no farther. All England stands wringing its hands, asking
itself, nigh desperate, What farther? Reform Bill proves to be a
failure; Benthamee Radicalism, the gospel of 'Enlightened
Selfishness,' dies out, or dwindles into Five-point Chartism,
amid the tears and hootings of men: what next are we to hope or
try? Five-point Charter, Freetrade; Church-extension, Sliding-
scale; what, in Heaven's name, are we next to attempt, that we
sink not in inane Chimera, and be devoured of Chaos?--The case is
pressing, and one of the most complicated in the world. A God's-
message never came to thicker-skinned people; never had a God's-
message to pierce through thicker integuments, into heavier ears.
It is Fact, speaking once more, in miraculous thunder-voice, from
out of the centre of the world;--how unknown its language to the
deaf and foolish many; how distinct, undeniable, terrible and
yet beneficent, to the hearing few: Behold, ye shall grow wiser,
or ye shall die! Truer to Nature's Fact, or inane Chimera will
swallow you; in whirlwinds of fire, you and your Mammonisms,
Dilettantisms, your Midas-eared philosophies, double-barreled
Aristocracies, shall disappear!--Such is the God's-message to
_us,_ once more; in these modern days.

We must have more Wisdom to govern us, we must be governed by the