{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2924", "width": "2339", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2K o\\nci* ^Vii-^ yj. r o -iff _\\n^o^-^-^*/ V^v \\\\-..T..\\nA V^", "height": "2822", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "m ff^r\\nV\\nA\\nn^^ o o i t\\n2,. V\\n^\u00c2\u00b0-n.\\n-J.^\\n^^-.v^\\nt^c i", "height": "2827", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2772", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2772", "width": "2106", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Ttie\\nDivine Comedy of Patriotism:\\nBY\\nMORTIMER THOA^SON.\\nNow Barabbas was a publisher.\\nLORD BYRON.\\nI am mine own Barabbas\\nM. T.\\nNEW YORK:\\nPRESS or DUANE PRINTING COMPANY,\\n56 55 rULTON STRCIzT.\\n1900.\\nL-", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "SECOND COPY,\\nTWO COPIES RECEIVED,\\nLibrary of Cangrat^\\nOffjoo f thd\\nAPI? 10 1900\\nBegrttdr af Copyrtjfht^\\n75 ^^^1\\nT4\\n61525\\nCopyrighled a. D. i900Du\\nGIlOPOC MOPTinCP THO^iSON.\\nThis worif is also Copyrig-hted in Great Britain.", "height": "2726", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "TO\\nPOBERT GIBSON,\\nOF THE\\nNew YOPK STOCK EXCHANGE,\\nThe Author InscriDes\\nTHIS BOOK\\nWith High Recognizance and Regard.", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2726", "width": "1924", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE DIViNE COMEDY OE PATRIOIISM.\\nThe one voice in Europe.\\nLet your reforms for a moment go;\\nLoo., to your butts, and take good aims;\\nBetter a rotten borough or so\\nThan a rotten fleet or a city in flames.\\nBritons, guard your own!\\nLORD TENNYSON.\\nThe open door let no one shut it!\\nMERCATOR MUNDL\\nNon odium ahrorum sed amor justitiae hie ducit.\\nEGO.\\nColon, descubridor de sitios para aduanas!\\nESTE POETA.\\nECCLESIASTES XIL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 12-13\u00e2\u0080\u0094 14.\\nL KINGS XXL and XXIL in toto. (Naboth s Klondike.)\\nIsaiah I. 25. (Temescal.)\\nThe Georgica of VERGIL had for their object to make men proud of their\\ncountry on better grounds than the mere glory of its arms or extent of its con-\\nquests.\\nPROF. MERIVALE.\\nThe British Empire is the greatest secular agency for good now known to\\nmankind.\\nEARL OF ROSEBERY, N ber, 1892.\\nCultivate peace and narmony with all. Give to mankind the magnanimous\\nand too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevo-\\nlence.\\nPRESIDENT WASHINGTON.\\nWith the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have\\nnot interfered, and shall not interfere.\\nPRESIDENT MONROE.\\nThey who take the sword shall perish by the sword.\\nPRESIDENT LINCOLN.", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "In our code of morality, conquest would be a crime not to be thought of.\\nPRESIDENT M KINLEY.\\nLa diritta via era smarrita.\\nLA DIVINA COMMEDIA DI DANTE.\\nLo e quasi sempre.\\nThe rise and long roll of the hexameter.\\nLA MIA.\\nLORD TENNYSON.\\nName is but shroud and smoke clouding the glow of Heaven.\\nGOETHE.\\nThe world belongs to him that wins.\\nSCHILLER.\\nFear, that reigns with the tyrant, and Envy, the vice of republics.\\nLONGFELLOW.\\nSo that, according to Longfellow, one is not free from weakness, nor the\\nother from sin. BUNCOMBE.\\nConcerning the Diplomacy of Intrusiveness, of which more than one nation\\nis guilty, and in rebuke of it, the Hon. George Gray, Senator of the United States\\nfor Delaware, and one of the negotiators at Paris of the latest treaty between his\\ncountry and Spain, wrote in the North American Review, April, 1895: It is med-\\ndlesome and aggressive; it is envious and suspicious; it is covetous and not very\\nscrupulous; it exemplifies the evil of power without self-control, and of susceptibility\\nto insult without a due proportion of self-respect. Its spirit is that of conquest; its\\nfirst reason, as well as its last, is force It has claimed the right, in\\ndisregard of our own most cherished traditions, to visit and search the ships of\\nfriendly powers on the high seas in time of peace, only to be condemned by an\\nimpartial tribunal of arbitration. It overthrows by force a Queen in Hawaii in the\\nname of liberty and annexation, and maintains by force a King in Samoa in the\\nname of independence and autonomy.\\nIn the deep heart of man care builds her nest.\\nGOETHE.\\nCare comes in and with all serious duties, but cheerfulness neutralizes its in-\\nfluence; therefore, let us be jovial with the Comedian.\\nANCIEN CHEVAL.", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "The Divine Comedy of Patriotism.\\nLife being too short for long story, I write several brief ones\\nTn guise of Court Fool and address them to you: though impersonal,\\nIf you find yourself in them the fun will be just so much larger,\\nI mean with you in them as citizen, statesman or people.\\nThe court of the jester being wider than that of Our Lady.\\nThis is written for any year that resembles the present,\\nAnd as such must recur, why, my tales must return with the period.\\nIn their progress a humor peculiar may frequently touch you;\\nOne of interest when satire or ridicule mainly is needed;\\nImmortal by fits, as a thing of a value revolving.\\nFrom the easy coil and the limber trip of the metre\\nInfer not a poem: I vow this is comedy merely;\\nSpread over a vast lot of life, but still strictly comedy;\\nPresenting new views of the worth and the sport of stump speeches.\\nToo little known in the lands at once speechful and stumpless.\\nAs a fact I am trembling to think of the wrath of the poets.\\nDear Douglases tender and true of the bardic afflatus,\\nWho will damn my misuse of the verse of the first of all poets.\\nChronological foredad of those who must chant or die panting.\\nTis the spring of the stanza that carries the leap of the meaning;\\nNo rhetorical prose has an equal arc of significance.\\nThat is why I select the most rolling and flowing of measures;\\nNot heroics on wooden-leg march, but the cadence of ballad.\\nMy narratives move without plot cf the old stagey species.\\nWithout being classic of frame or of classified tableaux.\\nAlthough fluent to read; full of dashes at follies and failings.\\n7", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Not a page but has something for some one, from bishop to nihiHst,\\nFrom Lazarus to Dives and those who are variously graded,\\nWith the wealthy duly abused, and from all sorts of standoffs.\\nThey include many subjects and phases for ending euphonious,\\nAnd are crowded with patriots galore in the latest of motley,\\nThe specimen-actors, I think, being more than three hundred.\\nFrom emperors, admirals and popes down to Tammany stabbers.\\nMere congruity is not the chief aim of my Opus,\\nNor Greek order, much as I love it, nor syllabic visions;\\nBut those great and small things which invite of themselves, and surprises\\nLike will-o -the-wisps that freshen the mind as they lure it.\\nMy purpose is manifold: rather my objects are many,\\nYet never astray from a theme of some fellow s diversion.\\nNot a moralist is the jester unless for the satire.\\nNot desultory this book that its topics are varied.\\nHexametric tribunal of hits on some shams patriotic,\\nIt is writ from the points of view of all parties and nations\\nBy one who has paid for his data in purse and experience.\\nAre you prone to condemn? Then think first of this explication.\\nAre you in for some fun? Then you may forego explanation.\\nAnd what though the themes of our sport be a week or a month old,\\nOr a year? I cannot illustrate by what has not happened,\\nAnd if I could rig up the future you would not accept it.\\nNo censure herewith is intended, but simply correction\\nOf exaggerated love of political systems.\\nWhich too frequently is confounded with true love of country.\\nWashington says, in his farewell address, that this is an error,\\nAnd Washington still is a man who commands some attention.\\nI stand for the patriotism of judgment distinguished from passion\\nAnd for the assertion of judgment when passion is raving.\\nStatesmen serious need not this hint; but political foghorns\\nIn all the senates and forums on earth, do require it,\\nAnd the balloteers misled by the din of their signals.", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "1 insist that the mass be instructed, whoever may do it,\\nThat campaigns of education, in fact, be augmented,\\nUntil every integral man be his own politician.\\nFor to see comes far short of enough: to foresee is the duty;\\nTherefore choose with more care the chiefs whose profession is foresight.\\nThe partisan pure is a heedless forerunner of mischief\\nUnless when he meet two less heedless who vote to suppress him.\\nIn my great age I do not expect to avoid the young teacher;\\nIn fact, tis because I am old he will surely assail me;\\nYet, I pray, comprehend v/hat I say, or say nothing about it.\\nThis is due to the critic as much as it is to the author.\\nDo not set yourself up in my place and then knock yourself over;\\nThat trick is played out alike for the sharps and the imbeciles.\\nBe a new fool of fresh style, if at all, just as I am.\\nOr, better, be wiser and trace me the sweep of my folly.\\nYou might do that with simplicity and no venom.\\nVirtues and faults are my themes, and in singular medley.\\nNot the Don of Lord Byron, I take it, was half so fantastic\\nAs the patriots and others of gifts who shall pass in my purview.\\nI am equally far from subserviency and defiance.\\nTo him bent on satire approval is merely an incident.\\nWhether it be approval of friend or of commonwealth.\\nI apologize in advance if I hurt any feelings,\\nAnd hope you may find yourself happy to sit in my circus.\\nAssumption of role and espousal of cause with your conscience\\nAre two things of sorts wide apart, it is well to remember.\\nThis is meant for the politician philogeneric\\nWhose program is love of all men for the love of an ofiice,\\nAs in footlight aside of low voice he will tell you with laughter.\\nState-quack, moth of freedom; tis hard to denounce him too strongly:\\nMagniloquent in expounding the cause of disruption;\\nThe Brunelleschi not of a dome but a nadir,\\nHe sets us aghast at the chasm he constructs for the glories", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Described by old John of Gaunt, son of Edward Successful,\\nAnd bullies the world to mistake mere bull will for high morals,\\nDestroying time-honored Lancaster s time-honored prophecy,\\nThis Proteus of error of those who grew great by Poseidon.\\nLet us pray our Poseidon he never repeat us our Proteus,\\nFor I am the bard of the freedom and rights of the oceans.\\nAnd shall canto them up in high form ere I come to my colophon.\\nHe who fails in perceiving the things he prefers to be blind to\\nIs not of the days of advance, neither friend of his country.\\nThere are too many such and I am the foe of the fetich\\nWhich consists of a man as the pope of his little non possum;\\nHis ad vincula is simply by private volition.\\nPraying God through himself and belaying the worship in transit..\\nLet us shift the base and the goal for the pace of true issues\\nWhile the space is left us ashore or afloat for the duty.\\nNone of these matters can drift or run slipshod forever,\\nAnd this is a very fair morning for sailing or sprinting.\\nNombreuses les activites et etranges les destins d un peuplel\\nGrandeur is not in vicissitude: look at French history.\\nFrance is great in her ways because France, not by reason of system.\\nShe was equally great for the epochs as kingdom or empire\\nOn hnes w^hich appear close and dear to the present republic.\\nAnd would be again in this epoch if kingdom or empire;\\nBui. I am not forcing this proposition, nor any;\\nOur purpose is to consider these themes, not to quarrel.\\nThe ethnic renown of the French was not built on the ballot.\\nAnd some of it was acquired by the chop automatic.\\nFrance is lesser, not grander, by reason of debt due to tumult,\\nAnd in morals were better developed uncurst by the cost of it.\\nLet Time have his way to undo as he had in the doing;\\nThe debacle is cheaper than cutting ofif heads by the hundred.\\nRace-temperament may be cremative of judgment.\\nFive hundred million pounds are too much for a guillotine.\\n10", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "To stop interest one begins by paying- the principal.\\nFew contribuables gain by a war, but all pay for it.\\nFourteen hundred million pounds of a debt bearing interest\\nInspire no just hope to recoup through the sons of the boucans;\\nThey rather suggest a chance of repeating the assignats.\\nBe not deceived by the looks of the things simply lucky.\\nNeither monarchy nor democracy solveth tough problems\\nAlone; each depends on conditions not governmental,\\nAs well as on politics sound and yet both are imperfect.\\nBut an Atlantic of land should support any system\\nWith an old and great nation s experiences merely transplanted.\\nClimatic limitations are rigorous in Canada\\nA fact which bestows on the States a decided advantage,\\nThey being largely free from these, as from some others kindred.\\nFortune and newness may put upon morals false aspects\\nThat is an item which clearly might stimulate thinking.\\nAnarchy cannot decide economical problems.\\nAnd an anarchical problem cannot be conjured\\nUnless as a contradiction in terms it is social,\\nBut not as belonging to tribe, or to sect, or to faction.\\nYet problems sicken and droop mid the flowers of rhetoric,\\nWhich peculiarly seem to flourish in zephyrs unsweetened.\\nOr are riddled by bomb survived from the French revolution.\\nBefore setting out to copy a prosperous new nation,\\nBe sure that the old one can build on the new one s conditions.\\nAdd as much as you can to your acres, but not to your people.\\nThe replenishing of the earth is a practice too easy;\\nMoreover, the need of it is not just now self-assertive.\\nNeither commune nor czar can raise wheat on the Prairie of Cobi.\\nI am simply inviting your wider thought on this topic.\\nIf already correct, you will issue the stronger for thinking.\\nChance is dead in some new lands of chance it died of a discount,.\\nA species of fever that burns up the blood of the future\\n11", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "At least so their newspapers say in effect I condense it.\\nSo long as machine runs itself, engineer is superfluous\\nBut the day of repair is as sure as the day of creation.\\nPolitics provide only fun for the politicians\\nAnd pay for the sons of starvation at earning a living;\\nThis refers not to men of the civil and civilized service,\\nBut to those who, outside it, contrive to draw high pay as patriots.\\nThere are purities, too, in all parties as well as all nations\\nGive them welcome they trouble the politicians with principles.\\nThere are others asserting the average as highest of standards.\\nShall simian chatter shatter the dome of a conclave\\nWhile the world is invited to take it for wisdom of freemen?\\nNoblesse oblige so do the commandments of Moses,\\nAnd the golden rule, in kingdom, republic or poorhouse.\\nIn honor prefer one another a Paulic suggestion\\nCommending itself to religious men high up on state-stilts,\\nPresbyterians or those of less rigid denominations\\nOutside of the narrow sweetness and light of John Calvin.\\nBetter the rule of the honest agnostic outspoken\\nWho confesses he knows it not all and hopes you may aid him,\\nThan that of the sanctimonious, cant-laden puritan\\nReeking with hatred and bloodshed and sermons and envy.\\nSuch as Charles Rex polished off in October, Sixteen- Sixty,\\nAnd who to-day would cavort the same in conventicle,\\nWhipping Quakers and making witches to order, and slaying.\\nWould you be a Paul at the feet of such a Gamaliel\\nAnd for statesmanship take his bad temper after election?\\nIs any new step in religion or politics possible\\nWithout an imposing hypocrisy to begin with,\\nOne intense enough to displace and replace common conscience?\\nI ask this of every known people, not of one only.\\nBeg not the question by babbling of zealotries minor.\\nBut select the most nasal of all David s psalms for your answer.\\nGreatness consists not in territory fortuitous.\\nNeither does it consist in expansion gratuitous.\\nAlthough manifest destiny sometimes appears to impel it\\n12", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Nor in overrunning of land as by cohorts of bison;\\nNor by citizen-squatters-at-ravage who kill for pre-emption\\nNeither in threats at a weaker fictitiously equal,\\nFoisted by treaty up to unnatural level\\nYet some little men oversized find it hard to believe this.\\nA thousand-mile-long of a railway from nowhere to nowhere\\nWhich builds up the wilderness intervening with townships\\nAnd welcomes a convoy of palace-cars laden with Pograms,\\nProvides rich new fields for the brigands you build up they hold up.\\nMy Lothair says if Bonaparte Founder had broken Great Britain\\nInstead of succumbing to British attrition ubiquitous,\\nThere would have been two big republics less among nations.\\nThus the date is past due, and long past, for their thanks to Old England;,\\nFor deep gratitude long overdue for autonomy and freedom.\\nMy Lothair is a Yankee Marquis, with Lowell his Quisate.\\nBecause her defence mid some aliens may not be quite popular,\\nShall Britain the builder of states and the leader in commerce,\\nWhose genius has dotted a globe with the posts of her empire.\\nWho governs the world by the drum-beat of Senator W^ebster\\nEngland, giver of speech with free speech and trade, letters and statutes.\\nProviding complete the outfit of civilization,\\nA highly-dressed system constructed on somebody else s\\nWhether the outfit may fit you, or swaddle or smother\\nLike Japan, smashing other men s wares and then making them pay for it\\nEngland, founding free states for polyglot foreign Arcadians\\nWho create not themselves, but absorb her results like a maelstrom,\\nThe three-decker island of argosies, flagship of freedom,\\nShall Britain be gibed and no son dare to speak for his mother?\\nNot while I live, though I die for the duty I live for.\\nBut my pride is abated, as likewise my strength of conviction.\\nWhen I think that my ancestors slept with the pigs in the parlor\\nFor fear some free Anglo might pass in the night and escort them,\\n13", "height": "2777", "width": "2045", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "I stare with surprise at my section of civilization,\\nAs at that which some joint friendly powers keep a-pressing on China.\\nThe man of big talent wins wonderfully by chances,\\nWhich means he is safe till a bigger has found his occasion\\nSince that one is more smart than another will never be other\\nIn the sordid and sharp competition of scopes wholly selfish\\nWhereas he of character gains by the force that is lofty\\nUnited in form which makes talent proud to be servant.\\nYou will stay at the front if you do not surrender your character\\nFor the fascinating and shifty possession of talent,\\nImitating the superficial deficient in ethics.\\nThis piece is quite trite, but will do to be spoke at a meeting\\nOf those who are given to patting themselves and each other\\nOn the back a practice prevailing with favor in England.\\nEvery great nation is built on absorption or conquest,\\nAnd notably a republic which sabred a dissidence\\nBorn of opinions renascent from previous rebellion.\\nIf this were not true and justified, how could a nation\\nCohere, not alone for expansion, but simple existence?\\nIf you do it by loyalty your petition finds audience\\nIn time by the time you are dead but you fractured no principle\\nYou suffered and left for your son what was due to his father.\\nIf you do it by revolution, revolute always.\\nIf good to begin, revolution is good to continue.\\nYou are loyal, too: why not? Loyal to revolution.\\nBut you are not yet quite through with the game, and must do some more\\nthinking.\\nRevolution begets revolution, despite your finalities.\\nReflect on this fact when the socialist asks you for something.\\nOr the communist, or the anarchist; we did not start him\\n14", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "In the progress that takes what it can, like Japan, when tis ready.\\nWe have done nothing more clever than call back King Charley.\\nTrue, he was wicked; but that did not fracture our principle,\\nWhich was that our surfeit of revolution was permanent;\\nThat stability is the primal condition for empire.\\nAnd that revolution as permanent hope of the restless\\nWeakens all moral law in ratio precise with its prevalence.\\nYou should think up some way to achieve without revolution.\\nConquest of equal by equal was law in past eras:\\nTo please you shall we lose its effects? You just set the example!\\nWe cannot undo deeds we wish the past never had thought of,\\nAs you cannot blow back into life the old ashes of witches,\\nAnd, in their descendants, cannot unwhip the old Quakers;\\nT am not trying to make it that we are the better;\\nAnd we will not add suicide to the wrongs of the ages.\\nNor will puritan statesmen have brow enough to suggest it,\\nSince the gents of that kidney are very tenacious of oneness.\\nOther policies work through disintegration to chaos.\\nIf I can comprehensively crystallize interests\\nOf nations round bases of sense, I shall do some good service.\\nLet agitators remember with us it is union,\\nAnd that our right to punish is equal with theirs to do treason.\\nI feel certain that President Lincoln would so have expressed it,\\nHad that great man been called on for counsel in foreign rebellion.\\nNo state propagates the terms of its own dissolution.\\nEven though its foundations were laid in political tenebrae,\\nAnd a state is an empire, whether republic or other;\\nNor will friendly state expect that another permit it\\nThat the friendly state may thereby pluck political profit.\\nThe first and last duty is that of imperial integrity.\\nWith academic debates to amuse us betweentimes\\nWhen no one is trying to shut treaty ports more or less solemn\\nIn the treaty-guarantee of an openness general.\\nIS", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "There is a point where we fire ofi the gun: why not tell it?\\nDo we live by our rights in the world, or by somebody s favor?\\n\\\\fter more than a thousand years, no step toward heptarchy!\\nloo quick the foreign nudge if we hint about abdication.\\nToo much are we called to resign if we show the least weakness.\\nIf universal disruption were waiting all nations\\nWe ought to be strongest of all to proclaim extreme doctrines\\ni^nd to put ourselves at the head of the world s fair of equity.\\nWe should swing a bright blade of far reach in the conflict of empires.\\nFour hundred and twenty millions are loyal, if organized.\\nLet there be a formula for converging their loyalty\\nAnd the millions themselves irresistibly at a menace.\\nWith a faraway giant friend near us only if needed;\\nOne whose unctious rectitude in the dealings of peoples\\nResembles that which adds other s dominions to Britain.\\nI can fancy a vast British fleet that need never see Albion,\\nAnd it cannot be that I am alone in a vision\\nSo prepotent and vivid, so worthy Lord Chatham s successor;\\nYet I marveled on many a sea that no great man proposed it.\\nNo Guy Nevil, no Strafford, u.p to the size of his empire,\\nTill at length I seized Cecil Rhodes to replace Warren Hastings.\\nI felicitate you on your East and West Indies, moreover,\\nStates! and tis for their good, just as our rule is everywhere.\\nThe tyranny of superiors is better for freedom\\nThan the liberty of inferiors who don t comprehend it.\\nNever mind constitutions which about this new subject are silent!\\nHow could they speak out when they could not foresee the conditions?\\nWe are all very strong in the doctrine of President Lincoln:\\nUnion first: then whatever you choose so you touch not the union.\\n1 am not stunned by the splendid blare of Our Empire,\\nNor dazed by display of its banners and count of its races,\\nBut I wish that we make it a unit against all aggression\\nOr confess that we hold it by grace of some little wedge-driver,\\nBe he native statesman of severance or buffer in Asia,\\nOr nine Frenchmen at Fashoda in a Nile-game of ninepins.\\nOr bluffer or duffer in Europe or elsewhere: I care not.\\n56", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "lO.\\nLove of country comes of gooa feeding and love of the acres\\nThat furnish it, more than of institutions poHtical,\\nThough sometimes the two come confused at the end of grand dinners,\\nA freak of nature escaped from a tuppeny sideshow,\\nOr a foreign fugitive swift from the stigma of murder,\\nIs not the material whereof may be moulded a statesman.\\nAffect to consider the agitator a statesman\\nIf you choose; we know that you know him and have your own purpose.\\nBut we discount the game; so it does you no good to palaver,\\nAnd you know what this means if the humorist say nothing further.\\nNo man is political criminal; all crime is by statute.\\nNot for loving freedom too well are you stepping the treadmill;\\nTwas the breach of her laws, or some others, that brought you in convict.\\nThink of that when for reasons of freedom you carve up a gentleman.\\nThere is truly no politics, as such, in carving a gentleman,\\nThough there might be some in keeping one untried in prison\\nFor crime, not for politics, till his foes buy his freedom\\nBy bail, while outsiders try him by writing and shouting.\\nA big case was his, with a funnybone shock for denouement.\\nWe should have offered him naturalization and embassy.\\nJe suis L Homme Qui Rit: will some President contradict me?\\nRemember this is a comedy based on stump speeches,\\nThough not of new style, but of genuine, old-fashioned order\\nWith the hits that wake partisans up and inspire their responses.\\nA stump speech from the tail of a palace-train is a humbug\\nWhich ought to shame Mr. Depew and some other pow-wow men.\\nI insist on the woods and the stump and the citizens shouting,\\nSuch as I walked many miles to applaud in my boyhood.\\nI do not fear to make free with the humbug of dignity,\\nTh e war-joss of nations that violate civilization\\nIn its own name, the mask of the egoist purpose.\\nLet all governments use comic editors as ambassadors!\\nI should be proud were I comic enough for such ofifice.\\n17", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "II.\\nThe finishing- stroke diplomatic would be one appointment\\nWhereby you were sure of success in offending- two nations\\nBoth of which like to be friendly but will not be pranced on;\\nTransforming the art of avoiding to that of entangling;\\nLet us keep our minds what Friend Washington told us about it;\\nOr inviting forgiveness because you are dull and unmannered\\nAnd have wakened the world to new notions of foreign relations.\\nWhat should we say if the Queen should invite some great strangers\\nAnd conspicuously quit the town at their moment of coming?\\nBetter to pitch the key of diplomacy higher,\\nNot in fury, but concord, tuning your horns of dilemma\\nTo hexameters chanted in lucrative cadence spondulic,\\nLeast stilted of measures and bounding with profit euphonious.\\nEither that, or paint on your scutcheon a goad with the motto\\nApplicatio posterior betulae mores emendat.\\nThe foreign lines are not for my countrymen needful,\\nBut intended for aliens thoughtful of me and these topics,\\nAnd are classical just as I choose to conform to nine standards,\\nMore or less; perchance fewer; I intend not to fight on that issue.\\nSeveral things herein were approved by state men of three races,\\nIn officio, too, not by pessimist, second-chop exes.\\nAudire alterem partem pars est bonorum mororum.\\nMaybe statesmanship has not a vital connection with morals,\\nYet surely twould err in any attempt to subvert them.\\nBeware tlie magnetic man! He wins not by intelligence,\\nBut by just enough cunning to substitute something inferior.\\nIf you win by a keel why should you defend by a leeboard\\nFor reciprocity let us substitute philophocity,\\nOr the love of the seal as distinguishd from love of the sealskin.\\nAnd with that philoprocity, law of the love of the peoples;\\nThus renouncing the system of mulcting the nations not servile.\\nDiscrimination and fines have a queer look in commerce.\\n18", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "12.\\nIf you seek as fixt object a hegemony with neighbors\\nI Jext door or at many thousands of doors from your owl-key,\\nPersuade not with ultimata which violate treaties\\nUnless you arrange them for fun or to smash by devices.\\nMas valable es el asiento si no arrancado.\\nIn forcing the growth of ex-colonies, skip the fool s paradise;\\nLeave that to the old mother-countries that found it by founding you,\\nSuch as Britain, Spain, France; on your accounts proud, poor and sorry.\\nLet the chiefs of fresh nations line up against phrenic inflation.\\nThe signs of the zodiac are futile for trumps at draw-poker\\nSo long as the game is a bluff among figments of planets.\\nYou must jackpot the stars ere you trump with the signs of the zodiac.\\n13-\\nSurely great politicians are men of a mission peculiar.\\nTheir best measures are stepping-stones only to measures tentative,\\nAnd they always teach rivals how to despoil them of office.\\nAnd their speeches precede even themselves to the shelves of back numbers\\nUnless they be men like Lord Bea, or my friend Daniel Webster:\\nWhereby they are victims, methinks, of distinction sardonic.\\nBe you, then, sardonic on fate and let pass the distinction.\\nThe true, real patriot of every nation is tory.\\nStrange as this sounds in the ears of the tongues that curse tories.\\nI apply this remark not alone to the lands of the Britons.\\nBe not laggard, O Britons, in taking a tip from new poet!\\nAnd insist on reforming reform and reformers; their premises\\nAre radical errors, and a will-o -the-wisp is their logic.\\nSymposists had led us to isolation and menace.\\nNow be lastingly Tory and arm, and burn the symposium.\\nThe policy that sacrificed Gordon would sacrifice anything.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Or that which led up to loading the Boer States with cannon,\\nForeign officers, rifles, whatever could injure Our Empire.\\n19", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "14-\\nThe masses swing first to one doctrine and then to another,\\nAnd even when wrong they are right because they are the people.\\nOne man may be damned, but a milHon are saved though they follow hira,.\\nNumbers substituting themselves for the law and for conscience.\\nThe moral law is a fiction of human intelligence\\nAVhereby intellectual men govern those who are less such.\\nNot wrong the effusive buffalo marching by thousands\\nAnd at double-quick stride and long pace eft acing a county\\nThis is nothing against the Augustus of long horns and goring;\\nHe had not been properly trained in respect for the county.\\nThey will none of a leader, but push up a dummy to follow,\\nAnd on changing their cue knock him out and set up another.\\nIf a minister make himself loved where he speaks for his country\\nHe is wrong, and must win respect out of fear of his nation.\\nIn no sense may he substitute himself for his country,\\nThough he be gentleman finished like Pauncefote or Lowell.\\nAll levelers are jealous of level more lofty\\nA fact in nature, not a political incident\\nPeculiar to institutions in any man s country.\\nIf plain Grant or Lincoln be greater than either accomplished.\\nWhy not abolish your schools, O ye paradox-hummers\\nYour colleges, lavishly copied from old world examples?\\nHave you no use at all for the men who are highly instructed\\nIf not, wherefore teach to your boys what your manhood makes fun of?\\nAha yet 1 see for your conduct some justification.\\nEducation makes what the bases give it the chance for,\\nWhile the bases sometimes evolve by inherent vigor;\\nWhich makes me think nature may not intend education\\nFor those who can come to the front by direct evolution\\nCommodore Vanderbilt and John Churchill illustrate my meaning.\\nIn both church and state let us quit self-felicitation\\nLet us shut off the wind of self-praise from the brass band and organ,.\\nAnd out of mere shame take up some creative duty\\nIn beneficence free from conceit and denominations.\\n20", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "15-\\n!lvIothing ripens a cause like the blood of the man who has shed it.\\nEre the last drop be run the cause is already immortal.\\nYou sustain his cause by mere mention of name of the martyr,\\nIn a double sanctification the two thus uniting.\\nThink of this when about to murder another Lord Cavendish,\\nAnd remember that murder is always murder, not politics.\\nAnd that you were convicted of crime, not imprisoned for shouting.\\ni6.\\nWe justify change to experimient v/ith a principle,\\nBut your purposes should not be laid on political fun lines.\\nNor on euphemisms, nor with too much philanthropy mingled.\\nDifit erentiate the love of man from political objects,\\nBecause, if devoted to both, one or other will trip you.\\nIf inclined to joke, respect those who can see no joke in it.\\nFun in foreign affairs is demoralizing and costly.\\nAnd likely to lead to no fun in your treaty relations.\\nDo not love your country so much try to do something for it.\\nLove is blind you are not use your eyes for the patria s errors.\\nPreserve the distinction between a right and a privilege.\\nWhich seems much too apt to become confused in some newlands.\\nFree and equals in rights should not be unequal in privilege.\\nBe not fooled by substitution if it be economic\\nKeep the theme on that base and let it not drift into politics\\nUnless you have ballots enough to compel its acceptance.\\nCompel the politician to be an economist,\\nOr slay him, of course in the sense of his trade, if he will not.\\nThis requires education alone, and decision, to do it.\\nPut your faith in consecutive growth, in continuous purpose.\\nWho discovers it all at once saves the future the trouble\\nAnd is not a genius so much as a lusus naturae\\nPie lacks the deft ways of experience whereby to adapt it.\\nYou may take up the theme where he left it and nrove him a charlatan.\\n21", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "The heir of a self-made pedigree born into boredom\\nHas nothing for you but self-praise to explain his existence.\\nThis is very hard on the sons of successful fathers,\\nWhile tis hard to be the successful son of such father.\\nGreat head needs not God: a greater or lesser accepts him.\\n17-\\nIs the alien aegis a shield or a shackle for peoples\\nIs the previous panoply-doctrine transmuted to menace\\nSome Presidents told me they deemed it a threat with long shadow..\\nWould you rather develop your own, or a stranger s ideal?\\nWould you rather be forced to be free, or be free without forcing?\\nQuien se habria independizado solo para caer vencido\\nPor el vecino mas fuerte, extranjero de sangre,\\nEl caudillo mismo de falsas palabras fatidicas,\\nSugetiendo de proteger, obligando a aceptar?\\nLoor a la libertad Veneracion sublime\\nA la independencia que existe en la naturaleza,\\nY no en las teorias de los egoistas.\\nIf Colombia be independent by grace of another\\nIs Colombia free, or a simple bondwoman of nations?\\nIndependence by one guarantee is not independence;\\nIt insures the control of one nation over another.\\nThat will do for a maxim new in the law between nations,\\nAnd the world will wonder, five years hence, it ever was questioned..\\nAliancia forzada con Mexico para defenderlo\\nPareceria a los del pais un paso del conquistador.\\nI continue some obvious truths in the style of stump speeches.\\nPretension to any control outside your dominion\\nWill not be accepted; annex it, or touch not a tropic,\\nAsia for Asiatics; Europe for Europeans,\\nAnd so forth: the sea is a wall; and if ocean be lacking,\\nOr other divisional, make up the want with a doctrine.\\nIf pride of race be true among Spaniards or others,\\n22", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "If it be real, why not resume old allegiance,\\nDropping the gloriole glinted from foreign assistance?\\nThis is academic discussion without living interest;\\nAn allegory illustrates a theme without passion.\\nAnd no point of offense can be taken where no one is mentioned.\\nGenuine independence means cutting adrift from the language,\\nIn your new high tone quite away from the tongue of your seniors\\nAnd the laws, letters, ways of those you broke suddenly loose from.\\nAny other conception involves a mere fight with your parents,\\nWhich requires your apology both in politeness and morals.\\nWhen the other fellow is arming precisely as you are,\\nDoes patriotism mean you prefer to be killed for your country.\\nAnd that both would be happier to die than to live for the patriae?\\nOr is it the riant mask of the thoughtful and sorrowful\\nWho behind it are biting the file of their bitter dischantment?\\nIs no regret blufifed away in the flaunt of your standard,\\nNor absorbed in the roll of your drums and the blare of your trumpctsi\\nI am neither advising nor hinting, but simply inquiring.\\nRemember the joke is on me when tis not on my topic.\\nLet nobody answer these questions by easily begging them.\\nThe small politician high up always begs or denies it.\\nHis business is not to be fit for a place, but to get one,\\nThe smallest man to the largest position aspiring.\\nHomage to President Diaz, who is not of this order;\\nThe Monroe of Latin-American independence.\\nNot of the independence thrust on a protege.\\nCastelar intends to be truthful, but flatters no Saxon.\\nIf rhetoric could uplift Spain he had made her a giant.\\nThey who bet on orators forfeit the stakes among nations,\\nAs the rule, and the short-worded Saxon seems to absorb them.\\nWe overesteem the wrong gifts: that is why we are losers;\\nThat is, those who have not yet learned to esteem the irue science.\\nWe began far too wise in our own conceit with the Transvaal,\\nAnd atoned at a cost which seems to be British exclusively.\\nAnd everlastingly, in life, prestige, criticism, treasure.\\n23", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "But let us dispute of these topics like Sunday-school children:\\nTorn paper may litter the floor at the end, but no blood there.\\nIf our genius be that of the monk, yours is that of the layman\\nThe instant the hymns have been sung- that express your religion.\\nSecular excess runneth not into ultimate profit;\\nIt produceth the tramp and the quack, who bring not the true empire.\\nWe shall grope, on our side, to a paradise much less abnormal.\\nYour feints and shifts work not out your emancipation.\\nYou do not successfully sneer yourselves free of our worship,\\nAs we never try to sneer ourselves loose of your friendship.\\nIs the era of truth and of dead affectations upon us?\\nIt is much to the kingdom of God and of men if it be so!\\nBe patriot as hot and swift as a star space-pervading.\\nYet permit a like orbit to those who have much of your likeness.\\nTis enough that my country is quietly great among nations\\nQuietly great without reference to buncombe or bunting.\\nIf she make not a noise periodic I shall not forget her;\\nNor need she give editors chances to whoop up the people.\\nIf I see not my flag every day, still my love shall not weaken;\\nIf I see it not daily afloat, I shall shiver no timbers.\\nThis is excursive, invasive, incisive, melodious;\\nAn impartial refrain of a turpial vocal in ethnics;\\nPrize songbird that from the equator chants of equation\\nAs a political rule for lifting equality.\\n19.\\nNo hacer el primero paso, porque es aquello que cuesta.\\nAre you tied to a foreign leader or bound by your judgment?\\nIs it even whether you follow by will or compulsion?\\nShall the world be open, or all be dragooned to one system\\nBy the gentry of chance in political conclave fortuitous,\\n24", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "And forego Asiatic commerce to placate exclusives?\\nI refer to the rights of all states, not of any one solus.\\nNor is Asia the only continent in my vision.\\nCanje leal debe ser el mote de todos.\\nMr. Canning s doctrine, which Mr. Monroe put his name to,\\nDoes not mean, and it cannot, the circumscription of commerce,\\nNor of the right to alter political formulas.\\nNor of organic rights in all sovereign peoples:\\nSo told me some Presidents of some southern republics\\nWho deplored the political overreaching of Canning,\\nRut who take either side, according to whence come the menace.\\nHowever, freedom with Europe, as well as from Europe,\\nIndependent autonomy, sovereign in choosing relations\\nWith continents ocean-united, I found was the preference\\nOf Presidents Lerdo, Canal, Paez, Nuiiez, Soteldo.\\nI made several trips to examine these things with devotion.\\nBritain is, after all, alone among nations consistent.\\nBy avowal imperial, commercial and free, what is lacking?\\nHer premises vast, her logic is true to them strictly,\\nTill her moral command renders all explanation superfluous.\\nNot one nation antagonized at any point anywhere,\\nExcept those who object to both open doors and free commerce,\\nInsisting on spheres of influence as a substitute.\\nThis example cann.ot be crushed while the moral law governs.\\nAnd asks not your imitation, but that you surpass it.\\nShe will never be slow to follow a lead for the better.\\nAnd is waiting, I guess, for her best friend to show her the way to it.\\nBefore taking arms to defend either one or more nations\\nAgainst no attack, one might well ask a few minor peoples\\nSi quieren la aliancia de un amigo forzoso\\nQue no reconoce derechos porque poderoso.\\nOverbearing friend is the most insidious of foemen.\\nAcquiring by trespass that which the honest foe fights for:\\nOften done ir the name oi the Cross for the profits of Cortez.\\nLei us establish a tribune ol secular honor\\nF or material aftairs, with religion put by for salvation.\\n2b", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "Study secular honor before you object to this program.\\nLet a court of honor be formed to decide for all nations\\nNot only the law but the equity of all causes,\\nHolding war on a level no higher than that of mere murder,\\nAs a strictly preventible crime, and therefore more heinous.\\nImpractical? So was all order till some one achieved it.\\nProverbially, Muscovite policy never was open\\nAs to doors or the ways of shutting them; but the Emperor\\nNicholas Second may set my court of honor in practice\\nAs soon as he quits arming Russia more largely than ever.\\nAt the present date or for any time in the future,\\nAnd guarantees to respect present holdings of empires.\\nSine qua non, no advantage while waiting the congress, nor working it.\\nThe congress of Ninety-Nine or of any near decade,\\n20.\\nRemember the challenge of Baumanoir to Bemborough;\\nThirty a side; it was promptly and proudly accepted.\\nThe Sixty swang glaives at Oak Midway of Josselin-Ploermel\\nAnd thirty fell prone round its roots and were vanquished in honor.\\nThose winners conquered by fighting, not overrushing.\\nNo small party was stung to defiance by insults and blunders.\\nTwas when civilization was dawning, or maybe just previous.\\nNo cowardly threat of twenty to one stained that battle.\\nTwas in times mediaeval, when a soldier throve by his daring,\\nWhen man against man in a quarrel was all that was manly.\\nNot smeared with the ink of the bully the page of that story.\\nTo the true warrior the blood of such field would look beautiful.\\n21.\\nAdvise yourself not to disturb the order existent.\\nScarcely any other ofifence has so much of pure blunder.\\nWere redemption required again, the returning redeemer\\nWould be more than denied in the house of the Pontian successor,\\n26", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "With emphasis more than of words might be ordered to quit it.\\nWould the sons and the daughters of broadcloth and silk change their rain\\nWould they see the need of a sermon enforcing new fashion?\\nWould a pontifex ride on an ass as a choice from a chariot?\\nTreason has many forms, innovation being one of them,\\nAnd is punished in many ways between hemp and starvation.\\nThis is the tragical act of the patria-comedy.\\n22.\\nAs a class-leader, or otherwise doing the paragon,\\nEe not overmuch righteous for fear of surpassing thy parson\\nOr the big local man whom thy borough has lately elected,\\nAnd of setting example up in the place of a sermon.\\nThe world is not yet wholly ready for dutiful action;\\nWhat would suddenly come of the fellows who live by advising,\\nAlert in the counsel of all save themselves, and paid for it?\\nMake not thyself overwise: why shouldst thou destroy thyself?\\nMore, profit in being behind than in front of thine epoch;\\nThou canst clip the king s coin of the nobles who squandered for progress.\\nMore honor in being in front; but what profits the martyr?\\nFor services rendered to art thou mayst freeze on a corner.\\nLet the lights of philosophy drift to the locker of learning\\nAnd then sink the ship at a hundred miles south of Bermuda,\\nSeek ease of mind, but not so that the search become effort.\\nRead editorials by men at six guineas per fortnight;\\nTherefrom thou wilt gather a conflict of many opinions,\\nAnd will deem ease of mind best promoted by ceasing from reading.\\n23-\\nRepublics exist for liberty as a principle\\nWhen it willingly taketh the impress of fixt institutions.\\nBear this in mind when the genius of turbulence prompts you,\\nAnd bear it in mind that in this the republics are justified.\\nThough self-contradictions crop out as to some other issues.\\n27", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "The republican view of freedom is fixt, not expansive,\\nThough your true devotee will swear fixity is expansive\\nIf his politicians may only fix rigs on the people.\\nWhen these get their republic established, it stays there forever,\\nGoing on like a wheel in the air on a permanent axis\\nFor the sons of rotation in ofifice who prate of the progress\\nOf the wheel in the air that insures them rotation in office.\\nDare suggest that the wheel might roll on to an equalized fortune.\\nAnd the sons of rotation in office are sharp to shout treason.\\nForeign war puts a stress unexpected on fixt constitutions;\\nThe obstacular clauses require an immense explanation,\\nBut manifest destiny helps the defects in the logic.\\nAnd may even furnish them forth with a hundred amendments;\\nAnd Senator Hoar may earn place with the fathers in story\\nOf what was to be at the founding, but not for the future.\\nBut our nature cannot be changed by political raving.\\nFlumanitarian fixt bayonets frequently fix it all.\\nEthnic conditions are strong in upheaval of theories\\nWhen the same are not built on the evolution of principles.\\nThey neutralize the ideals of Theodore Parker,\\nOf Channing, and others the half-gods of inexperience.\\nThose lofty conceptions of half-gods who should have been full-gods,\\nRound-shouldered, they, by the weight of reforming the universe.\\nBut who missed the correct conception of democrat mission,\\nImmortal in splendid isolation of error.\\nYet some stumpers pretend to eliminate the discrepancies\\nBetween the philosophers and the facts of the decade,\\nAs: We see things exactly alike unless where we differ;\\nYet the difference is merely in name, though it strenuously sunders.\\nI am on your side in the argument, but can t see it\\nUnless as a Jesuit point, like Lothair at Mentana.\\nThaumaturgical metamorphosis has its value\\nIn reversing conditions when no other means can explain them.\\nAre kings better? No; but their banners bear different devices;\\nThey have never been starred with the claims and the aims of republics.\\nKings pretend to lick savages for the good of all nations\\n28", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "And to take the chances of Hcking from them and their allies,\\nTheir civilized allies envious of us, for example\\nOf fortune, and who damn us for w^inning the things they are seeking.\\nInherited status, not wider life economic.\\nWas a commonwealth s pride; all it knew was known to the foredads,\\nTheir long heads lucky at length in the luck that seems judgment;\\nThat is, they were helped to success by the chance that makes merit,\\nGood men and great for their time, and I honor them deeply,\\nBut it was not their mission to tether a state to an epoch.\\nIn our Ninety-Three Dupuy quotes the French revolution.\\nWhich seems to be still on tap for both sides of all questions.\\nThe inventor of figures of speech is the patriot and statesman.\\nThough, like sons of a pope, all questions for such have been answered.\\nA few phrases carry a measure, and thinking comes later.\\nIf the ins seek aggression, the outs double quick to outmarch them\\nIn gross rivalry do wrong for the good of the country.\\nThe wrong party on top dragoons the good sense of the people\\nAnd their morals, and makes them do wrong for the patria-gloria.\\nAnd pay for the splendor through ten generations of taxes\\nIn total and limited monarchies as in republics.\\nNo people more sensitive to the bomb of the anarch\\nThan democrats, nor quicker to quake at his dogma;\\nA deeply significant fact, and much in their favor.\\nYet questions are economic, no longer political.\\nIndeed, it is time to economize on the politics.\\nEven if economics should wrestle with no other symptom.\\nIf mere massive voting may cure this, why does the cufe lag?\\nMen have met death there in proof of their dissatisfaction.\\nIs the plutocrat using democracy as an autocrat.\\nAs a vision of freedom materialized for the despot.\\nThe multiplied citizen tyrant, not the king single?\\nAny sort of system could promise or chat of the future.\\nIf it do not build for itself, can it build for the future?\\nYou are held to the boast of the past, not the vaunt of intention.\\nPolitical detachment is not independence\\nIn inimical sense; noblesse oblige outside of politics,\\n29", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "And from this the mere cut of political bond cannot free you.\\nGood faith cannot die Avhere noblesse oblige is the touchstone.\\nAs it cannot exist where one flaunts the pride-tiag- of its absence.\\nWho could imagine the step from Mount Vernon to Tammany?\\nWho can foretell the volte-face the fresh era may order?\\nA league for the preservation of free institutions\\nMight be met by a counter-league for their pontiiication.\\nAnd a nation within one might set up its church for its politics;\\nOther tribe tlian the ]\\\\Iormon may swell in an amplified Utah.\\nLet nobody wind himself up for debate automobile\\nNor otherwise tire himself out; I am only suggesting.\\nMy assertions are merely affirmative forms of the query,\\nWliile my interrogatives offer occasion to crush me.\\nWhether you know this or not, take occasion to ponder.\\nAny nation gp-ows weary in time of the noise of a people\\nIn chronic complaint, unwilling to take the world s chances\\nMid denominations of one or in many religions;\\nFollowing, not leading; struggling ever for special favors,\\nFavors not asked by the others and due to no section.\\nSomething weak and wrong in a race always crying for sympathy\\nAlike in the prosperous hills and the desolate valleys.\\nAnd forever encroaching on government fovmded by others.\\nAn unpioneer yet may win by devotion to winning.\\nIn liberty there is more than the mere tu dixisti.\\nBecause we must labor to keep as we travailed to earn it.\\nIf you use the past as a platft)rm to boast of the future,\\njMaking also tlie present a stump speech of that which is coming,\\nIf you keep on intending forever, where will it land you?\\nAll my questions are hypothetical; no concrete purpose.\\nIrrterrogation amuses, and I know but few things.\\nYet from what I might foretell am deterred by the stones of Saint Stephen.\\n24.\\nWashington did not labor to found a tramp s paradise.\\nThe foreign bondmen of fate who are otherwise freemen\\n30", "height": "2731", "width": "2019", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Mistake in prescribing the duty of Washington s country\\nAs that of predestined absorber of every crank-theory\\nUneasily radiated by prophets of failure.\\nYet we with that land would associate intenser persistence\\nIn scopes more ambitious, in truths more far-reaching and clearer.\\nThe jealous rage of the democrat spurned foreign comment\\nTill the democrat swelled, like the monarchist, into expansion.\\nThen it came to pass that a criticism was not an insult.\\nWe are all on an equal level now, each being superior\\nIn his own esteem to all others, for which I esteem him.\\nI am seeking not to hurt feelings, and ask your opinion.\\nRecall the instance of Lowell, the gifted, lamented.\\nBritain gave him cold credit for doing his manifest duty.\\nThereat he fell foul of the Fenii, who called him a poet.\\nWhen his party adopted their stigma and left him an outcast.\\nHe Vvas right for the chosen few; but too few chose to vote for him.\\nWhat a pity plain life and high thought went under with Emerson!\\nBut this is a verity whose point pricks all systems.\\nConstitutional innovation came hard and tardy\\nTill a world-wide event broke the tyranny of script-limits.\\nA stump speech is this, but not specially fierce against monarchy.\\nA demagogue s epigram w^as a platform for statesmen\\nUntil somebody said that the great needed not be the narrow.\\nHe W ho opposed the shut door and the feudalist finance\\nWas bid stand on his head as a sign that his feet were the wiser.\\nInimical premises seemed to serve friendly conclusions\\nIn the latest twist of the logic of fresh politicians.\\nWho twisted the lion s tail as part of the premises.\\nA cheap hit on cheap coats w^as prolonged for the blessings of dearness.\\nJohn Bull s horns became locked with those of the favorite dilemma\\nOf how not to grow lesser himself while another grew bigger.\\nBut Thaumas, as agent of Neptune, whispered the President\\nAnd enchanted isles in two oceans dazzled the people.\\nManifest destiny supplying the constitutional warrant.\\nAvalanche voting is either majestic or nothing,\\nSince it proves satisfaction both ways, as well as the avalanche;\\n31", "height": "2802", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "The majority happy to win; the others at voting.\\nSuccesses of statesmen run not with their efforts in ratio,\\nEven among easy equals; yet am I not pessimistic.\\nThe world is not lacking in genius; tis rather too full of it.\\nBut that which is wanted is not a relapse into dullness,\\nBut one big enough to employ all the others at profit;\\nA genius Promethean not only in range but in drive-power.\\nWith him we should tumble over one another in paradise.\\nOn our planet transformed into paradise by this genius.\\nI here reaffirm the most sacred rights of all equals\\nFrom the North Pole to Cape Horn and from Athens to Stockholm,\\nAnd that no one is wrong because each prefers his own system.\\n25-\\nI am some things out of office; among them an editor.\\nCivilization is not editorial per se, but by incident;\\nWhether the civilization be normal or crazy\\nDepends on the fellows who shovel the type in the columns.\\nIf you wish him to win, put civilization forward\\nAs the ace of trumps, and glorify him for high playing.\\nAugmenting your ethical bet as his vis-a-vis loses.\\nOn the enemy s losses the ethics depend, and your winnings.\\nIf you cannot trade with his foe, spoil the trade of the others;\\nMake it seem baser than once was your share in the slave-dhows.\\nFight not for the open door unless you may be porter.\\nThough his trade may not drip to your bucket, another has lost it.\\nAnd that is your gain in the opportune ethics of nations.\\nMere passive selfishness goes for success in our epoch.\\nWhy? Because you may find what I lose, though it roll down a culvert.\\nI have lost; bide your time; you do not know w^here you may seek yet;\\n(This is not a proud age; and industria has no superbia.\\nThat Japan should be lucky proves nothing of civilization;\\nNothing for nor against the system Japan is upholding,\\nBut that Japan is ahead for the time in equipment.\\nAnd knew how to do at her own cost the business of Russia.\\n32", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "I respect Japan, and her industry, history and people;\\nBut, playfully speaking, she furnished the world a grave lesson:\\nWhich is, that an ancient race with new luck is a schoolboy,\\nWild in vacation days and missing his master,\\nAnd offering new proof of the need of Great Britain in India.\\nLord Rosebery said that the war should be stopped ere it started\\nNo single instance I find of more statesmanlike foresight,\\nFor no nation ever defeated itself as Japan did.\\nIt was exactly the same with the Roman and Briton.\\nSuperior warlike equipment explains the old Roman.\\nIn our era not even Julius the puffed could invade us.\\nSuperior equipment will keep us the Roman advantage;\\nThe lack of it will put some new Roman on top of us.\\nStrange that this fact appears not to the literary liberals.\\nForeign rivalry always confronts and sometimes afifronts us;\\nYet the penmen in Parliament always taboo this condition.\\nIf Japan had the cannon-ball mission to civilize China,\\nWhy has not Britain the same over any inferior,\\nOr the States to teach law of all kinds to the vicious and sunken.\\nTo transplant into Asia the carpetbag system and statesmen?\\nLet us praise wisely all round, not in status of stultus.\\nThe great future victor will be the disclaimant of conquest;\\nThe States may not know this to-day, though they yet will give proof of it\\nIn the moral, not physical, bigness of manifest destiny.\\nAll other conditions being equal, numbers are winners;\\nBut a far greater victory than theirs is the triumph of causes.\\nOn that base have I fought all my wars, by the pen or the sabre.\\nAnd I proudly fell back on my cause when the hordes were too pushing.\\nChina might have wiped out Japan in a new generation\\nIf a Japanese act had not given naval chances to Russia\\nTo look on Japan as a toy or a sarcasm in empire.\\nYet that again would prove nothing of civilization;\\nRather the other, all militarism being savage\\nAnd of itself proving civilization a forgery.\\nI am strong on the moral bigness of manifest destiny;\\nSoldiers are needed now on the physical side of it,\\n33", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "I admit; but even Jesus used force in persuading the usurers.\\nJapan attacked China simply because she was ready\\nAnd China was not, and that you call civilization;\\nIn its moral side manifest destiny did not appear there.\\nChauncey says that God always keeps some man in training for purpose.\\nAnd I deem the same God quite as oft keeps a rod in the pickle\\nFor the nations that praise themselves more than their Bibles may warrant.\\nSolid virtues still survive in the sons of Confucius,\\nDespite prejudice, falsehood, antagonism and, verting.\\nThe moral is, mid the din of competitive war-whoops,\\nClarify the newspaper mind, and do not confound things.\\nA stump speech upon editors, Japanese and Mongolians\\nIs just as legitimate as critique editorial.\\nIf too many cooks spoil the broth, too many colossi\\nOf hostile intelligence ruin the public conception\\nNot alone of Asian afifairs, but among all the nations.\\nWiser the fool than the King when he called down the great Macedonian.\\n26.\\nRemember these problems are waiting the ethnic solution,\\nNot one of gas optimistic nor partisan trickery.\\nNor by blasts recurrent of fun at the ways of your neighbor,\\nAnd that trying to force it by war should invoke your extinction,\\nSince in ethnics and ethics it proves that the lesser is beaten.\\nThat the strong party wins irrespective of other conditions;\\nA horde gainst a few, or a few with the arms of precision,\\nGrave moral reasons being later evolved for the triumph.\\nMais la politique du frellon est toujours detestable.\\nLa France, to be truly at ease, needs an object of hatred;\\nBritain, Germany, Italy, each has in turn been this object;\\nIt is in the blood of the race, and must always be reckoned with.\\nAnd some day will be likely to lead to an isolation not splendid.\\nThis will be when Russia shall cease to be idol in irony.\\n34", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "27.\\nLet no nation seek a menagerie in arbitration.\\nThis book is composed for the thinker, not for the partisan,\\nUnless for the partisan of the element comic,\\nWhich inheres in all purposes artificially serious.\\nBut any new thought is better than ossification\\nOf morals and mind in the temple of patriot-fetich\\nPreaching fixity, ne plus ultra of those who are lucky.\\nPonder hereby, and later explain me some causes.\\nWhy should despotism produce heroes and liberty squabblers\\nTill tyranny seems less disgraceful and easier than freedom?\\nIs freedom another guise of the substance of tyranny,\\nA name, an incitement, a hope to cajole the unlucky,\\nTo make minority acquiesce in the sovereignty\\nOf majority taking the place of the personal monarch?\\nSome hordes are the threat of the civilization that feeds them,\\nReconcentrados of freedom living on charity,\\nAnd may need a new breed of heroes to cut short their squabbling.\\nGod pardon the heroes who founded the chance for their purpose!\\nNo others so rasp up the ages with egoist graspings.\\nI call you again: why is this? Because the beneficiaries\\nAre always unworthy the martyrs, and lapse from their standards.\\nDespotism develops the man, and freedom the loiterer;\\nThe more shouty the freedom, the more numerous he, and offensive,\\nTill degraded enough to need saving, and then comes the hero\\nTo lift him; the martyr, a wasted political Jesus.\\nThe sword carves out virtue the plow turns the furrows of fatwit\\nEven fixt institutions should try to accept some new premises.\\nBut I fill not with wind either horn of this giant dilemma\\nLest my sound-swell of satire inundate a nation s tympanies.\\nWhile my aim is to tickle, not to derange its acoustics.\\nVerbum sap either civilization is wrong or the menace.\\nLearn the purpose of those whom you patronize ere you sympathize.\\nFor partisan vote-gain you egg them to do in our household\\nWhat you seek to prevent them doing in yours. Is that wisdom?\\n35", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Are you not thus facilitating their purpose to beat you\\nBy misuse of your forms in politics and religion?\\n28.\\nThe country that takes automatic care of its statesmen\\nFinds all of them equals in chronic political picnic,\\nSenators Hoar and Raines with Webster, Clay, Pitt or Gladstone\\nIn a national ball, a political spree, a fun-circle\\nWhere the unexpected bob up to be merry with greatness,\\nWhere a Prescott is elbowed aside by a Mig or embezzler.\\nThe nation that guards its great heads with a care automatic\\nDeems them political wards, and so they are funmen.\\nDo you object to my terms They were taught by your gentry.\\nCall them whatever you please, they were learned from your tories,\\n29.\\nWhen a public work must cost more than a few thousand guineas\\nThere is always a fund, if you know it or not, for corruption.\\nThe unredeemed are corrupt wheresoever you find them.\\nBut are strongest, of course, in the nations least prone to redemption:\\nA platitude this, both self-evident and Pecksniffian,\\nWorthy peregrine parson rather than secular poet.\\nMy terms are general, I vow; no particular reference.\\nBut as Her Majesty s Fool on the stump of a hickory,\\nInto this brief speech I infuse a dash of the puritan.\\nThe most serious of men, yet who taketh himself much too seriously.\\nAnd giveth a species of comic psalm tone unto patriotism.\\nThe moral is: Better the world is without such improvement.\\nSince the phrase modern methods atones not for principles fractured.\\nThe Panama scandal almost baffled conception\\nAs it trailed with a smirch and smear over certain republics,\\nAnd it poisons true hope of the citizen in his country;\\nThough the heroism of the peasants who cast in their hoardings\\nAt Panama is the glory of Frenchmen forever.\\n36", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "O patriotism planetary, unique as resplendent!\\nFrenchmen courting renown, not counting the cost of the waterway.\\nVast conception of duty was theirs, howso venal the leaders,\\nWith no Frenchman posing thereat as obstructive behemoth.\\nBut if you insist on assuming the contrary view of it,\\nThe foreign-born tribesmen who ruin or rule Manahatta\\nAre right about boodle; they merely foresaw the new era.\\n30.\\nForepops are good for their time, but not up to the future.\\nEvery nation has had them; take any for illustration;\\nRomulus, Brennus, Caractacus, Horsa and Washington;\\nEach a producer as well as a product of epoch,\\nAnd more or less heir and transmitter of civilization.\\nNo one sets fire to my stump; I am still in good humor.\\nAll things are outgrown excepting your god and his empire.\\nNo scheme can be worked for combining progress and fixity.\\nThe great wall of China surrounded that question forever,\\nAnd the recent joint faith of two nations in manifest destiny\\nFinds in China a large object-lesson of justification.\\nIf the past and your fathers were greater than you and the future,\\nYou cannot sustain the much nor the little bequeathed you.\\nGreat fathers build not for degenerate children great futures;\\nThe futures fail as the children fall in the contrast.\\nOr in the duties for which destiny had not trained them.\\nMagna Charta was great because previously nothing existed,\\nA cornerstone to be carefully set by the builder;\\nYet if new cut to-day all England would sneer at its smallness.\\nWe are proud and glad in this era we have not to lay it;\\nThat our temple founded thereon has lost none of its beauty.\\nThat the strength of its age is greater than that of some new ones,\\nThe political Mecca of aliens as well as of natives,\\nA fact due not alone to the cornerstone but the builder.\\nForepops are like Magna Charta, good in their period,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2But unluckily difficult to transfer to the forward;\\n37", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "Towers of light in the past wherefrom you may lay your course onward.\\nNot dawdle at anchor around them Hke pocketbook sailors.\\nThey are not to be sworn by at present for founding a czardom\\nUnless you endow them with purposes not in their records.\\nRather go back and work up like the antique beforemen.\\nFreedom means freedom to judge of the fabric of freedom,\\nAnd not that you force upon equals your notions about it.\\nIf equality be the just law, to aspire would be selfish.\\nGladstone said inequality is the law of Great Britain,\\nBut his God created superior and inferior;\\nI prefer the work of his God to his phrase of misleading.\\nAnd manifest destiny cannot exist among equals.\\nUnless as forbidding divergence of scopes with inferiors.\\nCan you hear on the outer circle the truths I am shouting?\\nFor patriotism pufifed, what private lines reek with your meanness\\nCan you earn a bowl of pea-soup at some other profession?\\nWhen will your fellows evolve beyond need of your ranting?\\nWhy should we not be matriots instead of patriots\\nCivilization would perish unless for the women,\\nAnd motherland would seem much less gory and gentler.\\n31-\\nLet us now freely speak to some state in imagination.\\nYou begin your political system with no propaganda;\\nYou disclaim the idea as antagonistic to freedom.\\nChance makes it successful, and then you are all propagandists\\nWhere chance took you one way and evolution the other.\\nFeigning faith perfect as means of ignoring its failures.\\nThe rights which at first were inherent lapse into prescription.\\nWhere two, three or five are gathered together in freename,\\nThe major number debate of the meaning of freedom\\nTill the minor come in, when they force upon them their conclusion.\\nThese freemen, you see, are persuaded to faith by compulsion.\\nTheir fellows presenting a garland of peace on a bayonet.\\nAdorning liberty thus while appeasing the despot.\\n38", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Propaganda involves all dominion: are you a democrat,\\nScientist, socialist, communist, anarchist, monarchist.\\nAltruist, egotist, shopkeeper. Christian, or heathen?\\nIt makes you no difference according to propaganda\\nUnless whether you lose your own head or cut off another s:\\nTherefore stay strong if you be, or get strength if you lack it;\\nFor if the loser turn winner, your head pays your crusade\\nThe Danubian Stambuloff being a striking example.\\nIt is nothing but preach, if you think; no such thing as a principle,\\nBut compromise, a sort of burglar on principle.\\nWhosoe er is on top, all politics end in orations,\\nAnd each best propagandist sets up in his turn his own system.\\nAs Pontifex, Artifex, Anarch, Freethinker, Don tknowit,\\nAnd freeman who finds a free lunch with five cents worth of lager.\\nWill you ever arise to the right irrespective of jargon\\nDexterously used with the sinister scope of defeating.\\nI am waiting the plan of John Him who sneered at finality.\\nHe would work a great empire by shifty anticipations\\nUntil it should drift into colonies through orations.\\nGod send us once more a great man to reorganize chaos\\nAnd give freedom a chance with the men who are up in its ethics.\\nIn the reciprocal duties of freemen and empire.\\nOr my States will run manifest destiny counting us out of it.\\nAll this is inspired by the ghosts of Will Somers and Gwynplaine.\\n32.\\nThere is no such thing as merit per se; what is called such\\nIs the figment illusive of euphemistic persuasion.\\nAnd to stuff the imagination you simply keep talking.\\nIf you can afford to parlar for a few generations,\\nProviding relays as the talkmen expire on the platforms.\\nMankind, muddled and wearied, at last will believe in your forepops.\\nBecause faith costs less effort than ever recurrent denial.\\nThis applies to the men known as big, whether local or national,\\nWho may be republicans, dromios, nihilists, autocrats.", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "Yet will I admit the true virtue of some of your forepops,\\nBut why did you bunch without sorting the true and the bogus?\\nThe man at your door of Walhalla is much too indulgent,\\nAnd his lack of discrimination discourages gravely,\\nFor he seateth a hippodrome clown in the chair meant for Bismarck.\\nIf a man had one virtue it does not imply he had twenty;\\nSelf-denial frequently means you care nothing about it.\\nAnd your victory was due to the rain in your enemy s powder;\\nNot the less you are hero, and vulgar enough to accept it.\\n1 am wary of him of one virtue and no seeming vices;\\nAnd a foredad in chief may be distanced by greater successor\\nIf you tie not the present and future to fetich pasado.\\n33-\\nA fashion-free woman being loftier than man and less sordid,\\nSome good mother should destine her boy to great age and experience.\\nThat he write a new testament simply of secular honor,\\nNot to supplant but to supplement that of salvation,\\nTeaching nations professedly Christian to keep the plain promise,\\nAnd. that spreaders of faith shall not flourish the secular sabre.\\nAs not long ago some of them did in the Saccharine Islands,\\nWhere a sweeter belief is attached to one easier than Jesus.\\n34-\\nTake oflf your hat and quit wagging the member unruly!\\nThis is a man who annihilates western conception,\\nAnd probably all European, of what is a patriot.\\nA son of Japan) is my theme, one of honors peculiar.\\nI am sad that his name was too humble to come by the cable\\nAnd his deed too heroic for newspaper comment by aliens.\\nNo love of his flag with a vote of supply to sustain it,\\nNo beak for a subsidy, marked out this son of the Orient.\\nHe published a pamphlet illustrating Russian aggression\\nAnd died by his hand in the act of proclaiming the peril,\\n40", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "With his blood to the letter sealing his love and his mission,\\nDestroying himself to dissipate bummer ideals.\\nI can almost hear the ghost of Demosthenes praise him\\nIn paean of patriot, in fiercer philippic of despot.\\nMust he glide to the shades with the pietistic Ephesian\\nWho builded the dome, and not live with the demon who burned it.\\nThis tawny Titan who dared to eclipse Cincinnatus,\\nThis reborn Asiatic outshining the glory of Europe,\\nFarther Orient projecting the glow of more radiant Eothen?\\n35.\\nFill in as you go, and file out when your space becomes crowded.\\nThey who square the square miles to the people find no serious trouble;\\nProof again economics settle political problems.\\nUnless where some fool not a courtier reverses the order.\\nHundreds of prairies are things full of luck for their owners,\\nBut not necessarily section of any pan-system,\\nOr system of panning out praise in behalf of some theory,\\nAnd while the system is lucky in having the prairies,\\nThey do not contribute a cubic inch to its greatness\\nWhich they would not give any other founded on prairies.\\nNo system better than Britain s on prairies Canadian;\\nNo prairies are richer, irrespective of system;\\nRicher per caput of population in figures\\nApplied to five millions of people, or two hundred millions.\\nAnd the prairies of water, the seas, they are part of pan-system\\nQuite as important in politics as in commerce.\\nAnd which some day will overflow, undertow tarifif-jcybbers.\\nLet us deem government wholly a matter of science\\nDissociated forever from lucky conditions;\\nAs adapted to race, and as circumstances require it;\\nAs a thing not perforce related to any condition\\nGood, bad or indifferent, excepting as needs may determine.\\nThis is the larger acceptance of manifest destiny,\\n-And will save us from errors serious, foolish and costly,\\n41", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "WRile substituting the economic best for all politics,\\nWTiile ceasing to mingle the means with the end in our purpose..\\nThese platitudes are the axioms of free constitutions;\\nI air them to-day as a pleasant and timely reminder\\nTo those who in making pan-systems set Pan up for nothing.\\n36.\\nA thousand millions in foreign wilderness railways\\nHave raised many millionaires up out of syndicate plunder\\nWho otherwise would have staid in the sphere they were born to.\\nThe roads cannot pay four per cent, on one-half of the money.\\nIndependence is best when the rest is not somebody else s.\\nLet him who would boast think whence came his original pride-stock\\nAnd remember the aid of the friends without whom he could boast not.\\nIndependence deceives us; the law should be interdependence.\\nAre we the children of light or the children of lightness?\\nGenii compete when at best; keep that in conspectu,\\nThe genii of races as well as of individuals,\\nBut not, when at best, in a rage to the point of efifacement.\\nSell to Britain steel rails lower priced than the British can roll for,\\nBut charge not your countrymen triple to help set this deal up;\\nThey should not be taxed to stop Britishers earning a living.\\nIf trusts in a nation be good, why not between nations.\\nWith none of them left in the cold of mere freedom of commerce?\\nWhy not uniformly tariff the globe to raise prices\\nAnd keep them where every man shall be worth just a million\\nTill the millionaire willing to work shall absorb his who idles.\\nInstead of maintaining armies and navies for spoiling\\nThe goods whereupon we have just raised the values by tariff?\\nI confess that I wish to be rich, and would like to see you so.\\nMy enjoyment is more when I know you will not need a favor.\\nBeni le genie de chaque peuple au bien de tout peuple!\\nShoot the maxim around the planet by cable in Gallic!\\nRomulus grew to Ouirinus for founding an empire.\\nShall nations be bred, or forever ignore private breeding?\\n42", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Idolater Romulus opened some doors as a builder,\\nOr indirectly created some ports as a founder;\\nQuirinus the idol eternized has never shut either.\\nIs commonwealth merely another name for the customs?\\nYour duty is first to yourself, but so very absorbing\\nThat you find neither morals nor time for the same to your neighbor;.\\nWherein I see not that it differs from that of rhinoceros.\\nIn the end, however, the moral law may be practicable\\nAnd the individual genii of peoples respected\\nIn spite of inspectors of customs and tinkers of tariffs,\\nThus revivifying the fame of the Boston reformers.\\nThe captains of statesmanship always detest revolution,\\nAs the rebel who wins is the quickest to shout against treason;\\nIt is mutiny, and breaks up the trick of their steering.\\nTherefore they keep on good terms, so to speak, with the chaplains,\\nWho govern by moral law with a physical supplements\\nYou see, the mass of all peoples belong to some churches,\\nTo denominations in name, howso easy their morals.\\nThus the captains get aid from the chaplains in ruling the tweendecks^\\nWhose fighting-men are a section drawn from the masses.\\nThe church-and-tax-paying majority call for placation;\\nTo appease them state-villains sometimes appear faithful to Jesus,\\nChiefs or ministers who must rule, but would keep down the taxes.\\nObedience of subjects goes not with defiance political;\\nSo that these captains try to deal gently with subjects\\nAs being the less costly means of attaining their purpose.\\nThey are willing to take any perch in the coop of consistency.\\nWhich frequently gives them a roost inconsistent and awkward.\\nIt was my court-observation that taught me these secrets.\\n38.\\nWould you abolish the merchant to set up the mill-lord?\\nThe merchant, the man who takes risks of both courage and judgment,.\\n43", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "The pioneer at his own expense of new markets,\\nThe Lord High Admiral of capital used between peoples,\\nAnd fill the land with corporations and salary chasers,\\nEvery man cutting and pinching to live somewhat lower.\\nSeeking recommendation of cheapness rather than talents.\\nIndividual enterprise dead; men liars, hypocrites, flunkies.\\nAnd all tO support what you dub modern methods in business?\\nModern is nothing per se, more than mere antiquation;\\nThe best is not sure till experience hath sat on its value.\\nWhen the consumer buyeth direct from the maker\\nThe latter man addeth on more than the middle man s profit;\\nHe knoweth his game, and would be a darn fool not to play it.\\nThus he knocketh a class out of living and payeth more for it,\\nClass and mass thereby castellating the few more securely.\\nThis is one of the sharpest points in the system of Dingley,\\nThough his henchmen would swear that the prosperous were never so\\nnumerous,\\nThus ignoring by general averment a charge made specific,\\nVery much in the style of a speech by professional exile.\\nWith the customs-tax to the working capital added.\\nAnd the interest on that, what is saved by destroying the merchant?\\nAnd women? Are they to be jostled like men round a prizering\\nIn the competition of earning enough for starvation\\nBecause another is waiting the shoes of the starveling,\\nOr, refusing to starve, make a break for high life without conscience\\nNo, not all of them yet; they are still very faithful to morals,\\nAnd since they cannot escape having men for their fathers,\\nThe fact that they have so much virtue is somewhat surprising.\\nWould you drive your inhabitants into the mill by the million,\\nLeaving them free, but to be either serfs or shareholders\\nT would be good for the Pluti; that is, till the social upheaval\\nThat would make the French revolution look like a picnic;\\nFor the next will be economic without politicians.\\nThey rejected as being for such festival unfit companions.\\nAH this is not serious at all; merely serio-comic,\\nLike municipal government according to Tammany.\\n44", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "39-\\nNow let us investigate the trick of discovery\\nAs related to novel experiments sound or defiant.\\nWould you open a show for the sale of prohibited articles?\\nColumbus was Latin, a tough enough man in his purpose,\\nAnd illumined when forethought and far-sight were swaddled in mourning^\\nA worker well worthy his hire in a sour-grape vineyard.\\nCourt-fool of an outraged volition with menials and dunces,\\nAnd I know not how little, or much, friend of Latin and Vandal,\\nSince the net result of his cruises enlarged double chances;\\nBut if living be good, let us thank him in spite of the offsets.\\nThe West of one nation said much of him: what did it do for him.\\nFor Columbus, rewarded with chains and blood-poisoned with sorrow?\\nDid Chicago send him On High as Ouirinus of Commerce,\\nColumbus, surpassing Romulus far as a founder.\\nDemigod as ambassador to the gods of progression,\\nOr pose him as Cock of High Winds in a new destination,\\nBorrowed genius of giant bazaar and ironic of statute?\\nColumbus, who not only gave to old Spain a new empire.\\nBut homes they would otherwise lack to the sons of all races;\\nSeeking room for new Romans in spite of pontifical dicta;\\nRegent of Hope and bestower of millions of homesteads;\\nWhose expanded heart beat for room for the heart of the future\\nPoet whose genius prefigured a sphere and then found it,\\nBut whose theme was too vast for expression in short or long metre;\\nThe bard who delivered two continents from his vision;\\nWho discovered the lot for the church where a parson condemned him;\\nOld sailor whose inspiration was due to his calling:\\nIn formulated ideal no other can touch him\\nWho foresaw the dorado of fact in a luminous frenzy;\\nTransparent and pained where the prophets were opaque and happy.\\nWhere the statesmen were safe who say no to all new pro^positions,\\nWhere the priest, who knows heaven, smiled a doubt for his faith in a\\nhemisphere.\\nThus offering a lustrous example of dogma infallible;\\n45", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "Where the fool was the woman who bought with her jewels the honor\\nAgainst the advice of king, noble, priest, statesman and pilot\\nWho all knew like a pope, but could not imagine beyond him.\\n40.\\nI love thee well, Isabel of the middle ages\\nIn the midst whereof centred thy radius of spheric expansion,\\nDe la iglesia hija real y reyna excelsa.\\nThy sweet genius unstifled by genius of double negation;\\nWhose intuition outpeered a whole realm of intelligence\\nAnd cathedral full of cardinals shaking their noddles,\\nAverring that if God had made it the church must have known it\\nNot sharing the cost, but singly thou tookest the venture\\nFor thine own crown. Queen regnant and radiant of Castile;\\nThe one human being with faith in the man and his mission,\\nWho by pawning a crown won a continental Golconda\\nAnd a fame like no man s a renown which even Julius might envy.\\nSole friend of the greatest secular son of the centuries.\\nBy thy side are vague dreamers all others from Homer to Bryant,\\nAlmirante Colon, with thy measureless gifts to the future\\nAs discoverer, sailor and poet of giant conception.\\nManacled victim of ingrates enriched by thy science.\\n41.\\nColon! campeon de geografia ignota,\\nIncluyendo mismo el sitio de dicha Chicago,\\nNo excluyendo tampoco al de su aduana.\\n42.\\nNelle lingue Latine dovute. Latino, t invoco,\\nColombo, per bene compiangerti I ultima sorte.\\nCome quella che termino a Valladolid. e indegna.\\nGenio di barriera di sponde li sarai sempre.\\n46", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "I benemeriti che muojono senza compenso,\\nDi principio anelando la cognizione morale,\\nDovrebbero trovar da benefiziarii loro\\ni apoteosi del diritto se non della gloria;\\nMa si tarda puranche quella che ti fara la giustizia,\\nTu mondano prediletto, erede degli ingrati,\\nSommo unico per la pazienza e per lo slancio,\\nPadre emisferico d una pesante posterita nordica\\nChe ti bilancia fra 1 destin di Quirino e di girantola,\\nO che t istalla al lago doganiere canonizzato!\\nTu santo della dogana! sei orgoglioso del range,\\nDeir onor continental nel quinto secolo tuo?\\nCercator d altri posti e scopertitor incidentale\\nD isole ben ricche inalzandosi dal mare,\\nDi tesor miaggiori e non lontano araldi\\nCaro Nume di lungo raggio e penetrante,\\nOggi 1 piu splendido fra quegli ch han sorvissuto la morte;\\nIntrepid ammiraglio d una flotta fragile come gloriosa,\\nAssai poco stimato fra le lodi di stolti millioni!\\n43.\\nHay unos que dicen hoy que Colon era hombre pequeno\\nConcepcion salvaje y envidiosa del Norte!\\nY los que lo dicen son encabezados de un clerigO\\nSon bien menester los pequefios para decirlo,\\nSiempre como baldon de Colon la iglesia parece.\\nSi Colon era hombre pequefio, quien era grande?\\nQuieren siempre aprovecharse sin palabra de gracia?\\nNo solo es glorioso su descubrimiento,\\nSino, y mas, su tino antes de su hazafia.\\nPuede ser que la raza Latina no es la mas grande;\\nPero el hombre que sea el mas importante del mundo\\nEra Latino, com.o tambien el ayuda indispensable\\nDe la poderosa amiga la buena reyna Isabel.\\nY yo que lo digo no soy de nada Latino.\\n47", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44-\\nSlow paupers by hoard, swift and rich in the passion of avarice.\\nTo the earher craving for gold adding new rage for silver\\nWere the people that peopled the land of thy find, O Columbus,\\nAnd the children improve on the will-force and brains of the fathers..\\nHonest refugee, outcast and outlaw are honied on one level,\\nOn a bet that all things will adjust themselves in the ultimate,\\nRegardful of only such law as the process develops.\\nWhere is God in this matter? He simply produced its Columbus.\\nO Latin friend of white Indians supplanting the red ones,\\nTrue dreamer on strand and on quarter-deck, where had their homes been.\\nHadst thou remained Mediterranean son of the boucans?\\nSome honors befell with thy landfall yet wast thou discoverer\\nOf new proof that the nature of man is unequal to fortune,\\nThat prosperity makes him invent on the side of the demons,\\nThis son of vicissitude coldly denying his mother,\\nIn his luck coldly shaking his brothers as bastards of destiny.\\nWhat obligated thy followers to steal their possessions?\\nDo civilized morals thrive on a theft continental?\\nThe grandees of thine epoch were thinkers of desperation\\nWho tried to dissuade thee from seeking out homes for the desperate.\\nWho should be shipped to new spheres, not reformed in the old ones.\\nCould Europe have carried them all hadst thou missed their last paradise?\\nTwas an easy preach in those days for the church-fed and court-fed,\\nWhile the unfed were waiting a church and a court that would feed them^\\nWill the sons of proud parents be fair with the fame of their fathers.\\nOr smash me. the jester, for smashing their fraudulent saintdom\\nAmid the- rush of pretense and pretensions for thee named.\\nThou Admiral of theLandfall of Homes, O Columbus?\\nThou sport of a hope seeking one thing and finding another,\\nBut nevertheless in ideas a son of high science.\\n45.\\nAlmirante Colon, thy seven years of solicitation.\\nThe tolerated schemer of corridors royal\\n48", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Who could tolerate for thy purpose the laugh parasitic;\\nEating the heart of rebuff with the smile of the patient,\\nThe smile of the virtue that lives with the slave and the titan,\\nHad made thee great man hadst thou died of a seven-years fever.\\nAnd had spared from the human renown the indelible scandal\\nWhich led into Cadiz and V alladolid and thy sorrow;\\nTo that grief which seems ever proportioned to greatness of service\\nAnd ever corroding his spirit whose service is greatest,\\nWhereof thine was in magnitude up to thy prize hemispheric,\\nAdding land to the knowledge of fire, thou Prometheus of Waters!\\n46.\\nGuanahani is Watling now three times sailed I thither\\nA British islet of seven hundred people and pineapples\\nWhere Britain should build thee a tower which should dAvarf that of Paris^\\nWith a radius of light one segment whereof should touch Cuba,\\nA star of utility crowning the fane of thy grandeur.\\nFrom thy point of discovery Anglia hailing Hispania,\\nThe colonial nations joining with light their dominions\\nAnd into manifest destiny putting new radiance.\\nBremner and I on the spot where they grew ate two pineapples\\nOn the spot where with sword, cross and flag thou annexed st the natives^\\nOr was it Atwood Cay, which I passed in the Alps, Captain Williams,\\nLost in a hurricane later commanding the Alvo;\\nBrave David and skillful, well worthy the pride of the Welshmen!\\nForty decades are still on the ocean reseeking thy landfall.\\nWhat now say those Indios of Guanahani to thy landing?\\nIn the sphere where ye dwell, in some isle of pineapples immortal,\\nDo they bow to thy right of proclaiming thy sovereigns and Saviour?\\nOr with Charley the Second s freelooter Knight do they rank thee,\\nDon Cristobal de Colon alongside of Sir Henry Morgan,\\nTitled by Charles, persiflagitous King of the Britons?\\nSiendo igual la sed del botin a Guanahani y a Jamaica.\\n49", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "47.\\nCristoforo Colombo, who followed the sea for a living;\\nCristobal Colon, butt of courtiers and churchmen Castilian;\\nAlmirante, Don, tither of all of his realized visions\\nThen felonized by heads dazed in the blaze of his glory,\\nBeating from Hayti to Spain to the windward of envy.\\nChained for long tropic voyage by Bobadilla the minion.\\nHaving made of the Spaniard the Don of all Western Sea Plunder,\\nThus giving him four hundred years of progressive decadence:\\nIn these phases of work, shame and splendor his life was included.\\nThe practical man is God s idiot outside his own practice,\\nNarrow chief of conceit that one mastery includes all the others.\\nWhat practical man was ever so rich as this dreamer,\\nO ye millions lacking in metals and meals had his dreams failed?\\nCriticism is dyspepsia of the brain, but mine is anhungered,\\nFor the cocktail of hope or the mince pie of thought always ready;\\nCynicism is perverted enthusiasm; my mind is not twisted;\\nBlasphemy is eloquence abnormal, yet am I normal:\\nBut so mighty a deed bred up not only glory, but satire.\\nSince the fun of the sons of Belial plasters the godly\\nIn the land where analysis seems to fight shy of the problem.\\nMuch varied truth is all round thy career, Italiano!\\nAnd I love thee too well to get left on an inch of the cube of it.\\nWhat was the Trojan treasure to that of Columbus?\\nThe petty tale of ten years, a square mile, some talenta.\\nCaravel and freight-car could carry the lot to Chicago,\\nWhere the sons of the hustlers would laugh at its value intrinsic\\nAnd marvel at such funny fleshpots and other utensils,\\nThe unclassic and even irreverend sons of Chicago,\\nWho would doubt of their power to attract in the world s exhibition,\\nColumbus, terraqueous magician who conjured two continents,\\nTrovator incantato di siti per nuove dogane.\\nThose Thaumas of wonderlands realized from two oceans!\\n50", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "48.\\nThe men who write books praising foreign political systems\\nWrite for large sales in the countries praised, to make money;\\nA legitimate trick, tho the praised people kindly ignore it.\\nAnd buy up the book which astutely ignores their shortcomings,\\nMade for sale among them by James Casuist greedy of money.\\nI am often amused at such books and at those whom they flatter,\\nAs at the Mephisto author serene with his profits.\\nThe men who write pamphlets which mainly find fun in all systems\\nWrite for their fun and their readers and they, too, make money.\\nThis is a pleasanter trick and perchance a more useful.\\nBut to write a great book and get nothing would simply be rueful.\\nWar breaks treaties and copyrights: let us be sure to keep treaties!\\n49.\\nDoes civilization owe most to Columbus or Caxton?\\nBetween the discoverer and those who made Caxton a printer\\nThe typos set type for his claims as against the old sailor.\\nThat is printer s ink on his continents with a vengeance!\\nThe Caxton-men could not set type there unless for Columbus,\\nWho was father of chances for transfer of loyalty also,\\nGiving comfort to subjects and kings who delight in the transfer;\\nMutual delight; you would flee, the King would not follow:\\nAnd some of the subjects transferred became fathers of printers,\\nWild with the freedom to print which inspires so much wildness;\\nYouth with gold pen dipt in dew, and maturity nowhere.\\nFor even the old men stay boys in the empires of Eos:\\nThose lands of political dawn with the sun ever rising,\\nNot noon-seeking; fixt in eternal morning horizon,\\nHadiant of promise and hope too cajoling to ripen;\\nWhere Judge Goldenrod lays down the golden rule as the statute,\\nAnd every one tries to get every one else to obey it.\\nLet the inkmen distribute the type which promotes this discussion,\\nThat is, after setting for me the type up which prolongs it.\\nSI", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "Inventors are commonly fathers of neutralized benefits.\\nHere I reproduce from the middle ages some pages\\nSo preserved as to offer the fragrance of foliage autumnal.\\nThe avalanche daily and weekly of trash from the steampress\\nIs more than an offset for all that we get of good reading.\\nThis is due to deplorable absence of just circumscription,\\nTo a vicious taste and false judgment inviting such matter;\\nA reciprocally reacting vile taste and misjudgment\\nProducing low morals, deserving the curb of the statutes.\\nParchment and pen were enough in the grasp of high thinkers,\\nOr mere voice, with the character of Demosthenes impelhng,\\nTill the low ones should be estopped from debauching the peoples.\\nI do not object to free print, but to those fit for no print.\\nI am appealing that judgment be founded, not despotism,\\nAnil that tyranny flagrant be burned in its typescreeds to ashes.\\nWords then would be pondered by prophet and thinker and listener;\\nAnd tis time; for the point-of-view view leaves salvation unsettled.\\nSalvation saintly or secular, as you prefer it.\\nShout not that this scheme is too slow; the world is too rapid.\\nAnd I wish to recall it from speed back to sense if it may be.\\nThe speed of express is to me not the highest expression.\\nWhat we look for is life, not the fever of following up chances.\\nAs we get further away from reform, some reformed things\\nSeem much less reformed than we deemed, and reformers less mighty\\nAnd their tasks less important, in view of the substitute evils\\nAnd those which your seer forgot to foresee and provide for.\\nEnthusiasm widens a narrow thing to a wonder,\\nAnd the cranks continue to press us into their purpose.\\nMy attention having been strained by these guns of opinion,\\nShot from star to star as for star-fun, I make this suggestion:\\nInvent an inventor whose good may be never perverted:\\nThat were a famous and useful Utopia for parents\\nAnd a most undeniable chance to be new and original.\\nFine cliildren s mothers and those of great men are my idols.\\nAnd I hope some fine mother s great son will achieve my ideal;\\nI should not be held to adore these fine mothers for nothing.\\n52", "height": "2726", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "so.\\nLet me distribute some more of the gnosis mediaeval.\\nA little trip to the past may round off your angles\\nAnd widen the line of your thought through the present and future.\\nBe not proud to take share in false politics or rebellion,\\nSince experiment may be unwise and rebellion not needed.\\nAccidental successes may sanctify moral misjudgments,\\nAnd that invites punishment, besides later undoing.\\nYet no other mishap quite so dazzles us out of the gospel.\\nNew worlds would be peopled, no matter what nation might govern,\\nWith successful preference, of course, for the States or Great Britain;\\nSeparation adds neither an acre, a bale, nor a gallon.\\nAnd may, indeed, cut you off from a big market centre.\\nNothing of origin Spanish was happier than Cuba\\nTill patriot self-seekers roused insurrections repeated;\\nBut nothing of origin Spanish. can always be happy.\\nSince content invites always the Spaniard to new perpetrations:\\nIt was thus he condemned himself to front chronic rebellion.\\nToo perfect to learn, too national to hail a good equal.\\nThus freedom is not in, mere form, but in ethnical fitness.\\nAnd my anthropological States will drum duly the Cubans,\\nAnd sad for that people the day when the States shall let gO of them!\\nForget not your faults while remembering your virtues as patriot;\\nSo leave me to deplore my defects and applaud your self-censure.\\nEcoutez au nouveau chanteur, qui vous dechante des anciennes concep\\ntions.\\nIn this song I am bidding for universal approval.\\nAnd would sing like nine muses in one, and da basso profondo,\\nFor the spread of the forms bearing newest and latest advantage;\\nBut I have seen too much tO mix systems with chances.\\nOr to theory tO attribute success due to resource;\\nNor can I see sense in the jumps for exchanging despoilers.\\nYou will get used to me later on, and agree with me.\\nTheocracy superposed on rigid democracy\\nIs a double autocracy instead of a single.\\n53", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "Yet there are millions who chant of such system as freedom,\\nAnd one Senator at least is its champion fantastic.\\nAll governments are alike in regard to new freedom.\\nSlow is the farmer to graft, yet swift to the politician.\\nIf you try to establish new liberty, it is treason.\\nPreservation of prior forms, not fresh essence, inspires them.\\nThis stuff is harmless, you know; academic discussion;\\nWhat might be if something had been something else, or such could be..\\nWe could live without print, but not without standing-room only,\\nAfter the boxes and stalls had been sold to the sitters,\\nIn a show where spectators must gladiate for a living.\\nAnd a fighting-rink Europe had been if Columbus had foundered.\\nIn fact it is time we should pray for another Columbus\\nSeeking new space for expansion of passions ungoverned.\\nTo which the old states should pay people to carrv their passions;\\nNew theatres to play over the played out old dramas;\\nSince the rise of mankind by new chances to rise is now hopeless\\nUnless upon social conditions to death-grasp resisted.\\n51-\\nYea, the crowded hours seem to call for another Columbus.\\nThere is a clamor for space from each new generation.\\nThe clamor for work is a sham; it means space to do nothing;\\nOne expects to have earned his full pay in mere setting the claim up..\\nThe percentage of increase from each requires a new area;\\nAnd if continents may not be found, neither islands invented,\\nLet a two-fold Columbus sail forth and discover a planet\\nWhereto we may go through the air with the new almirante.\\nWork yields only necessaries too few for necessities,\\nFood, clothing and shelter and worry, and most of the latter,\\nSome journeymen finding that only, while families famish.\\nNow, as your plan cannot be worked, let me make a suggestion.\\nI purpose abolishing this by accessible planet\\nWith Elysian attachments where labor shall never be mentioned,\\n54", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "IWhere free bread, milk and honey and chops put us all on one level.\\nSo I summon the admiral-aeronaut up to his duty.\\nIf he fail on the scheme of the nourishment that costs nothing,\\nHe still must find spheres for new railways and new speculations,\\nFor the corporations people-created as feudalists,\\nAnd these spheres must provide new careers for recurring Napoleons,\\nThe brigands of finance and commerce as v^ell as of warfare.\\nThe world will be never at peace till the gam blers control it\\nIn recognized fact as they do it in present appearance.\\nAnd therefore all interests are waiting another Columbus.\\n52.\\nMust immigrants be looked on as mere penal colonists.\\nAs slaves not less bond because slaves in a system of vices\\nWherefrom they escape very much as the cottonfield bondmen?\\nOne state seems to think so with force of a growing conviction.\\nWhat shall we do? Not for room, but for fixing the principle,\\nThough room we must have, of course, for expounding the principle.\\nLet Britain and Holland give Borneo blank to the nations,\\nOf course having previously seized it away from the natives;\\nIt is larger than Austria, an empire that feeds many people.\\nLet all nations own it for emigrants in fee simple.\\nBut not for return under penalty of the pirate.\\nThis scheme is intended for operation reciprocal,\\nAnd it might postpone the demand for another Columbus.\\nIf you go by good will, or take money to go, you must stay there.\\nWe seek in both cases the benefit of your absence.\\nIf you quit your old home, tis for Borneo once and forever.\\nSo be it for two hundred years, or for six generations;\\nAnd if at the end of that period the tollmen and others\\nShall have founded another big state and shall stop immigration,\\nThus showing ungrateful contempt for the source of their being,\\nIt will prove that they and not we are the great and the virtuous;\\nThat they have dared grasp the idea to cut ofif the steerage;\\nSS", "height": "2706", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "That socialism was put off and not settled by merit,\\nAnd the law of the lawless still governs material successes;\\nThat to the unwinning the moral law is a rainbow\\nWith a pot of gold to be graspd at the Christmas-box end of it.\\nRewarding only the chasers of maxim celerity;\\nThat altruism is an affectation by egoism;\\nThat liberty is not a right but a privilege,\\nA grant by the mass to the man, not inherent in manhood,\\nA political childplay subject to act of skuptchina;\\nAnd that family ties between states are the shackles of tariff,\\n^Waiting fool to explain them with pen or to cut them with hatchet.\\n53-\\nWe understand immigration by regulation,\\nBut if you permit that the outlaw partake of your freedom\\nYou must not expect that the honest man will uplift him,\\nWill carry him on as a body-politic equal.\\nThat would be irony on honesty and on labor.\\nSince the honest life is too short and too hard for such sequence.\\nReflect on the old Roman statute which founded Roumania.\\nThe law of the useless mouths was its business-like title.\\nYou are precisely defying the Roman experience\\nIn receiving the sort which the Romans sent to Roumania.\\nPut your bright mind to-day on the progeny of those outcasts:\\nWliat character would you decree to the peoples Danubian,\\nAfter twenty centuries or so, were you the Reichskanzler?\\nThey may found a new state, but cannot do good in an old one,\\nAs the devil might found a new state, did he need m.ore dominion.\\nYou may be stronger than Rome, but Rome had no equal,\\nThe lone-star, invincible kingdom, republic and empire.\\nFull of all lusts, irrespective of system or epoch,\\nState worthy to die, as it finally died, from their surfeit.\\nYou have several equals and cannot afford to defy it,\\nFor space to be filled was the largest of Roman possessions;\\nBut since then the generations have multiplied vastly.\\nWhile not one of all the religions have conquered their evils.\\nYou know your own business? Lucifer thought he knew his, too;\\nBut a fallen-star life would not suit you, more than a falling.\\n56", "height": "2842", "width": "2100", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "54-\\nIt would be well that all foreign press readers remember\\nBritain suffers from renegade Englishmen writing as aliens,\\nFate s fugitives, automobile with all men s Penates.\\nWhenever I make an assertion, you put a question-point;\\nI cheerfully offer you all the honors dogmatic,\\nFor I am not writing to hurt or to vert any human.\\nThey employ the spites of their home-disappointments as judgments\\nOf those among whom they are stranded, who knows not this swindle;\\nYour anonyms in more senses than one being anonymous;\\nThus fomenting dissention with hatred all artificial,\\nAnd they often are aided by agitators not English.\\nKindly drop on this trick, O my foreign newspaper reader!\\nIt does not express your opinion, nor that of your country,\\nAnd we must not let renegades manufacture opinion.\\nGreat Britain displeases sometimes in the conflict of interests;\\nDo not forget that your country is apt to do likewise.\\nNothing in it which arbitration cannot dispose of.\\nBut whenever you read a gratuitous insult to England,\\nThink of runaway dragon and pal, and pursue them with logic,\\nThose who bite at the conquering spear since they cannot be sainted.\\nBut let us agree about arbitration, I pray you.\\nIf we fail to unite on its meaning, of course it means nothing.\\nIf you cannot in any case lose, and must always be winner,\\nAnd need not to pay when condemned, wherefore trouble the nations\\nTo constitute a tribunal whose verdict exempts you\\nFrom all obligation, no matter what it may call for?\\nJames Kent of the States, of the luminous Chancellor grandson.\\nThe grandfather being of counsel toward that more perfect Union,\\nAnd illustrious otherwise in the tomes of his country;\\nThis grandson, I say, esteemed author of novels historic,\\nMy friend, urged that patriotism might be purged of some humbug\\nBy satire, and urged me to try; and thence comes this pamphlet.\\nSo that it is, after all, of suggestion American.\\n57", "height": "2706", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "55.\\nHere follows a narrative from a land of Columbus\\nExplaining relations of patriotism to a laundry.\\nYears many agone I was seeking at Barranquilla\\nA spot whereon to construct for the Cauca a steamer.\\nThe Magdalena was very high in the lowlands,\\nAnd its rage had driven the serpents to squirm on the hillocks,\\nTo dispute with each other the chance of salvation from drowning\\nAs I sprang from one knoll to another pursuing my duty,\\nTrying to skip -dispute and pursuit with those reptiles;\\nFor Captain Diaz warned me loudly not to get bitten,\\nTo which I have quite an aversion, regardless of poison;\\nSo I took his remark as superfluous and facetious.\\nLike that of John Piatt, who said he would rather not miss me.\\nAnd I spied not afar an old woman by rivulet running;\\nThe great-great grandmother truly she was of my laundress,\\nWho also was there in my interest efficient that moment.\\nTwo Indian women they were, spanning five generations,\\nAnd proud of their blood which was wholly unmingled with alien.\\nAnd one you might take for the other had age not prevented;\\nA fact you may frequently note in a race homogeneous\\nAs to mother and daughter and other descent in the stirpes.\\nTis when half a dozen races combine in one person\\nOr nation, you know not what either will do; and the races\\nKnow not which of themselves will come out atop in the struggle,.\\nNor whose face nor figure will rise in the next generation;\\nWhich requires me to pray your more study of ethnics as science.\\nWell, my elder was tall, straight and beautiful; scarcely a wrinkle^\\nThough forever she lived with the wrinkling sun of the tropics.\\nAnd almost as agile of step as a girl in a ballet;\\nA venerable marvel of women, believe me.\\nFor the city that year guaranteed her years at a hundred.\\nShe stood by the trunk of a tree fallen half in the cano.\\nHard tree of a thousand rings from core to circumference;\\nIt was part in the water, sloping, and forming a washboard.\\n58", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "The age of the woman and that of the tree were imposing\\nWith a deeper sensation of awe in a new situation\\nThan is given to one man to experience twice in a lifetime\\nAmid snakes of all sizes and colors hissing and wriggling.\\nA thousand years and a hundred useful together:\\nIn my long, varied life no other scene so impressive.\\nWith a touch of great age in her voice, but in clear and stout Spanish,\\nShe called as I dodged the ophidians: Sefior del Progreso,\\nAnd Captain Diaz, with a heart for the good of the people.\\nAre both of you sure you are heading the march of improvement\\nYou have slowly improved us along down the creek from the city\\nHere to the very last tree that can serve as a washboard.\\nFor seldom the rivers drift logs to the places that need them,\\nAnd now you propose to invade our last workplace with steamboat.\\nI do not consider that this is the march of improvement.\\nThe boat may be needed, but so are clean shirts, cufifs and collars.\\nWithout them how can you decently go on a trial trip.\\nOr sail on the Cavca, or anywhere else like Senores?\\nYou shall not come here: find another place for your building!\\nNow, other people s affairs are important, as mine are;\\nSo I stepped to the front, still in mortal dread of the serpents,\\nAnd I said Aged dame of a country to me wholly foreign.\\nIn more than one sense I am master, and Diaz is friendly.\\nAnd Piatt likewise, though Piatt is not very high up in the Spanish;\\nBut these writhing tangles of dragons seem to oppose us\\nIn protest united with yours against local progreso.\\nAncient daughter of race which we do not connect with advancement,\\nYou have improved my ideas of the march of improvement,\\nAnd the same by these slim twisting demons are elsewhere deflected.\\nI am always a man of fresh shirts in a climate less torrid.\\nAnd you and this junior beauty I thank for your service\\nHere in plight more surprisirg than any descried by Don Quixote,\\nAnd assure you I also take to my heart your suggestions.\\nBetween steamboat and shirt I am all on the side of the linen,\\nWith preference for climate where three shirts per diem suffice me.\\nBut why do you pound with a stone till a hole in the front comes\\n59", "height": "2706", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "Do you think that a hole in the bosom makes it look cleaner?\\nOr that elegance is related to holes in fine textiles?\\nI am very certain it makes them look very much older.\\nMine are new, and I cannot afford your strange methods al fresco.\\nMend the shirts and your ways, and then I will do you this favor:\\nThe city has offered this lot at a very low figure;\\nNeither my boat nor another shall ever be built here,\\nFor construction I scorn amid threats of a million erpidians.\\nI will buy it and give it to you and your children forever\\nBecause you have taught me new steps in the march of improvement\\nAnd because you seem blandly defiant of these local genii.\\nMoreover, the laundress has rights as well as the builder.\\nThen this aged dame who might have been queen of the Toltecs,\\nAnd would be if nature, not politics, should make sovereigns,\\nThe handsomest woman alive at the end of ten decades,\\nRushed on me regardless of snakes and kissed and embraced me,\\nConfusing me with the terms which are born of effusion.\\nI could not help wishing the great-great grand beauty would follow;\\nHer, too, I admired, but with very much less veneration.\\nThen they asked me to visit their home. I accepted with pleasure:\\nA very neat place; not the slightest suspicion of laundry.\\nBecause in the tropics all laundryfolk work at the brookside.\\nThat presenting the largest area for gathering and gossip,\\nAnd they do not invite to their homes till all business is finished.\\nThere together I saw the whole of the five generations.\\nI asked of their husbands; my laundress had never been married.\\nAnd thereon I learned something new of the march of improvement:\\nOf the four none was living for one of those beautiful women;\\nThey had all been slain in the revoluciones, she told me;\\nIn the revolutions peculiar vvhich govern those countries.\\nIntolerant of repose and contentions adjusted.\\nBeing free myself I insist on the freedom of others\\nAs they think it best for themselves, and not as I deem it,\\nUnless that some universal professor of freedom\\nAbsorb or annex and protect the importing of freedom\\nUntil Liberty shriek^herself hoarse in a gladness pretended.\\n60", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "But we all have the right to be critical in our wonder;\\nAnd the liberty to be killed amid chronic rebellions\\nIs not that for which I should flourish my foil-covered foilstick,\\nWhile it seems to invite the professor of freedom to council.\\nAm I a library-chatterer, unmingled with worldlings?\\nI have dodged bombs behind trees a few feet in diameter,\\nAnd have graphic sense of the loss of both widows and shooters;\\nThough experience induces a doubt that the death of a husband\\nIs really a loss: some are drunkards, some fighters, some wealthists,\\nAnd some are wife-beaters for more or less tangible causes.\\nAnd in none of these cases does death to the widow seem grievous.\\nShe who cutteth her dead helper s coupons alone knows true freedom\\nFrom the numerous mischances possible to a husband;\\nAnd in a large meaning, at Moscow or Barranquilla,\\nShe who washeth liberty s clothes is the rich woman s sister.\\nAlways willing to change her estate with her opulent kin-wench.\\n56.\\nIs representation without taxation a tyrannx\\nIf you were not taxed would you know you were represented\\nSuppose government on a long spree and the nation still prospering-\\nWith no taxes at alF; would you sober it up to restore them\\nOrder with minimum of rule and of tax; that is my order;\\nBut a high grade of people alone can adopt or adapt it.\\nWhy should stump speeches be often turned on against monarchy\\nUnless where some monarchist catches the hosepipe a moment?\\nWill you drink with me deeply to Boscawen and his sailors\\nOf England at Louisbo urg, and to Pepperell s Yankees,\\nTo Sir Edward afloat and Sir William ashore, and all British,\\nOn the Seventeenth of June, this next year, at the Cecil in London?\\nAn advantage of nature is wholly apart from jrian s wisdom\\nExcept the rare chance that man gets it from mater natura.\\nThis paragraph is not of mine own proposition.\\nBut of debate overheard in a great western tavern;\\nIn a roaring cross-roads forum where rum goes with politics.\\n6(", "height": "2706", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "I have simply slipped into metre some prose from the prairies\\nUnder two flags, and where one is as rich as the other.\\nThe careers of republics prove both how much and how little\\nMere politics can do for the good of the peoples,\\nAnd that they may give the explosive touch to the cornerstone,\\nAnd without change of form may transform the free life of a nation.\\nThere still morals grope in the early political tenebrse.\\nBecause democrats, like monarchists, have gone daft on expediency.\\nBut praise God they have proven political limitations,\\nAnd that man must at last begin a career economic!\\nO those days when politics seemed pancreatic emulsion,\\nElixir of life, the one single cure of all evils!\\nWhen to talk about politics seemed to absolve us from labor,\\nWhere all men were free, and all talkers, and all lived by talking,\\nAs though no ass could bray about freedom outside our pasture.\\nDear old politics for the sake of politics only!\\nThe means to the end was transformed, for the means was the end then,\\nAnd he who suggested science an imbecile dismal.\\nGreat was the sport, but we could not feed on it forever.\\nNow it is different and grim, says the man from the northside,\\nWho steameth from Winnipeg southward to read us a lecture.\\nYou have twisted your natures by speculative excesses,\\nHe says, while cold industries flourish alone in his section,\\nAnd that we thought about industries only for markets,\\nSir Giles Overreach as a merchant, not as a father,\\nAnd the sellers who hoard for themselves by glutting those markets;\\nBut first to think of the first right of men to earn livings\\nIrrespective of fortunes, why, that never entered our noddles.\\nNo doubt this is true, as tis wicked; but if he would change it,\\nLet him bring us the twice-golden age of morals and money.\\nThe economist has lost caste who is merely a critic,\\nAnd the lecturer on morals alone finds an audience of doubters.\\n57.\\nYet a higher system is richer, once you discover it.\\nIf you could lift all intelligence up to one level\\n62", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "And keep ii at work there, all nature would gather more profit.\\nEthics and ethnics should be our political studies.\\nAnd the effects of institutions and climates on races,\\nWhich would raise the significance of expedient science.\\nThoro breeding in manners may induce the same status in ethics\\nIf we closely follow them both in their points of relation.\\nThis would be exquisite means to a beautiful ending,\\nFor the highest ambition is that of the ethic supremacy.\\nBe proud of the breeding that lifts you to level superior,\\nBut prouder of that which shall raise to your level your fellow.\\nThe lower orders are higher in this age, but also more bumptious;\\nYet bumptiousness is merely a matter of manner,\\nWhich the little intent of this paragraph is to make better\\nBy the process of setting both parties to manners a-thinking.\\nAll classes are one in the classification of nature,\\nWho simply intended the classes as part of her order.\\nI humbly have faith and am strenuous on this basis.\\nIt may be that faith is a modified superstition,\\nBut it finds a big use sometimes where intelligence flounders.\\nAgnostic and gnostic together can build no new deity\\nTill they shall know how to harmonize knowledge with ignorance\\nTis only grotesque combination of paring and putty.\\nLet each one have faith in his country and do some high homework.\\nIf that be a superstition it still will not hurt us,\\nAnd will keep away irritation mutual and menace.\\nKeep your mind on your homework, not on that of your neighbors.\\nIf some of your countrymen seem to have grasped the wrong godhead.\\nSome others may bet on the wrong agnostic as teacher.\\nThe professor of no god with no head, who is worse than no godhead.\\nThe common man is a prouder man than the noble\\nBecause he is proud that he does not need to be noble,\\nJust as the noble feels not the need of being common.\\nThere is a saddening waste of force in these prideflings.\\nThe struggle is upward, not downward and Citizen Tiptop\\nNever tries to descend, while you try to get up alongside him.\\n63", "height": "2706", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "The weight of the argument, therefore, is not on your level,\\nAnd you stultify yourself by affected contentment\\nMixt with abuse and envy of Citizen Lucky,\\nWhile you struggle to reach that distinguished denizen s platform.\\nWhy not cease to be proud of the state which you try to escape from\\nYou will deem as I deem when you sit beside Tiptop and Lucky,\\nThat the air is o erladen with pride of the boomers ambitious\\nWho would be something more, but who are what they are, and can t\\nhelp it.\\nHuman nature tends of itself toward aristocracy\\nPolitical systems differ on bases, but stop there.\\nHave you heard of a self-made man who tried to unmake himself?\\nThe Greeks discovered this fact; no new race has outgrown it,\\n.And some new folk are suddenly, steadily strong in it.\\nAny system that seeks to ignore it is founded in mockery,\\nAnd Mephisto himself would deny it only in irony.\\nThe poor love to wallow in comfort and grovel in riches\\nQuite as well as the wealthy, and seek them with artifice equal.\\nAre you betting only on smartness and luck? Then look backward.\\nI propose a new toast to the sons of the first and third cabins:\\nThe smartness and luck of the forepops who needed no cabin,\\nThose first-class old men and their sons who could stay in their country.\\nAnd needed not go to the Philippines nor to Cuba,\\nWhether as settlers or heroes by land or by water.\\nI was not one who could stay in my country, and did not,\\nBut I wish to prove how it tastes to toast those who could stay.\\nThis health may drink hard, but your pluck should be able to swallow it.\\nUnless I deemed yours the stronger, I should not propose it.\\nWe shall thereby be holp to remember our equals as races.\\nBut I ridicule not, nor take sides; I invite your attention.\\nHalf-tried schemes are the ones which most favor the jumps at conclusions,.\\nThe pirouettes of the mind on the peel of banana.\\nA fact is a fact, no matter what side of what ocean.\\nNor are you and I bound to drain bumpers to loud self-assertion,\\nThough we both quit our lands, if not for their good, for our own good,\\nI, the exile of numerous skies, drink to him of but one sky;\\n64", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Tawny in foreign wrinkles and years, I salute him\\nWho paid not with heart torn from home for the wisdom nomadic;.\\nFor whom the high Cross at the South is a void constellation\\nAnd Argo Navis sails vainly through islands in ether,\\nBut on whom happier galaxies glowed in the flames of his fireside,.\\nIf you give me the new when the old is played out, I am happy.\\nBut I wish to examine the new before I accept it.\\nLet us avoid a break with our story and legends,\\nAnd eschew political pastry in times economic.\\nIf you deem me severe on the hypocrites of fresh countries,\\nSimply wait till I offer my comments to those of Great Britain.\\n59-\\nA tory trade-free or a democrat tied to high tariff,\\nWhich is freer? Do dear things charm most when you least can procure\\nthem?\\nWhere money earns nothing, neither does labor; thus interest\\nIs legitimate as labor; this does not mean usury,\\nNeither half pay for work; which are knavish and artificial.\\nThe rate of interest gauges a sort of prosperity.\\nWhen high in the banks it means profit to money and muscle.\\nBut three per cent, means a country used up as England,\\nWhere new enterprise cannot arise because Britain is perfect\\nAt home, and must tabor abroad for others and Britian.\\nThus philanthropy obligates itself to earn interest\\nAbroad, whether foreign anthropos like it or fight it.\\nBut let us not thirst for gore if we cannot agree on things;\\nAll savages will seek Britons as soon as they know them.\\nOr the States, with us jointly working on manifest destiny;\\nBy coincidence working with us in alliance predestined.\\nInformal, by chance, unsought; therefore so much the stronger.\\nTherefore let nobody shriek again in diplomacy.\\nShrieks excite doubt of fair cause, and lose others in ridicule.\\nA steamwhistle answer wins not the neutral s opinion.\\nAnd you may regret, after verdict, your chasmic activities.\\n65", "height": "2706", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "William the German was far too prompt in the Transvaal;\\nHe fomid the chance later for biting- the file at Samoa.\\nBe not proud of your Dorian, but sorry you are not Ionian.\\nHerakles was stronger than Theseus, but also much coarser.\\nWith Theseus sufficiently strong, and Herakles not wanted\\nAlthough Theseus, I morally scorn for his conduct at Naxos,\\nNotwithstanding its frequent imitation by moderns\\nJSFotwithstanding that new Ariadnes are sometimes deserted,\\nAriadnes of records which had not been learned before marriage.\\nEach was typical of the people for which he wrought legends.\\nAnd no race desires always immunity from refinement,\\nAndy Boner as permanent substitute for Phil Stanhope.\\nA great editor left a great legend concerning the tribe he left:\\nA mystery of Providence is a genius on paper.\\nThere are others who bet without knowing comparative values.\\nMany shouters bet on the ignorance of their hearers\\nOf the special historic facts they are fond of perverting.\\nSelf-government should begin with the individual\\nFor political as well as for moral salvation;\\nNot till he masters it should it go to the people,\\nWhen the units are ready to flourish as aggregate prosperous\\nThe fifth and sixth chapters of Matthew will give you the bases.\\nI am not finding fault with what is merely telling what might be.\\nThey who have done nothing are those who deem everything easy;\\nThey who have wrestled with publishers only are weary.\\nIn public procession, on holiday of the nation,\\nSome natives were shot for carrying the little red schoolhouse\\nOn a banner, the sign of their sturdy early instruction.\\nWhat ahens for freedom fitted could thus murder natives?\\nIs the Yankee no longer master and free in his capital?\\nAnything that sounds like a sermon is part of the comedy.\\nNext to the devil the common foe is the lecturer,\\nBut a mightily different fellow is he who asks questions.\\nWhy not admit that some other forms may be equal,\\nForms not of delirium political locally conjured?\\n.A thing good for the time may not mean the best thing for all ages.\\n66", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Imagination embraces the stars and the mountains\\nAnd all that in them exists for the empire of letters,\\niWhile political ocean level flattens all topics.\\nPraise of Demos alone is surely a very dry duty;\\nPraise of God is difTerent because it relates to salvation.\\nMonotony is the natural forerunner of mania;\\nTake not its high-priest as evangelist of your statecraft.\\nThe wit of man, sages say, is his richest possession.\\nSince man only can laugh at intellectual emanations,\\nAnd in politics very brief time is required to exhaust them.\\nExcess of politics lands you in idiosyncrasy;\\nBut, if wilful in this, you must be responsible also;\\nResponsible for your errors of will and its lapses.\\nThe true patriot is he who condemns the defects of his country\\nAnd urges his fellow-citizens to reform them.\\nOn this there will be some pertinent hints for the Britons.\\n60.\\nNo people grows fat on wind-pudding nor shriek of a wildfowl;\\nI still wait for the Mexican Eagle to swallow the cascabel.\\nLabor and wealth are far off from political dogma.\\nAlbeit either would like to create for the other a czarism.\\nLook hov/ opulence everywhere scorn eth the systems of statists\\nBeware of a sunflower success as the pride of a Summer;\\nI have seen that it withers at frost of political autumn,\\nAnd that parchments immortal shrivel at heat of a quarrel.\\nLook how labor antagonizeth the systems of opulence!\\nNature connects not with any political formula.\\nBe thanked every god that we cannot appeal to our mother\\nTo justify any mere statecraft from czarism to anarchy,\\nThough we know that the god of the universe is not elective.\\nOr at least we participate not in his nomination.\\nFree she left us to choose; we will die in defence of that freedom,\\nDie of metaphor, perhaps, if we may not die fighting;\\nSince Liberty cannot let herself alone, nor let others.\\n67", "height": "2706", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "A people gorged with its average cares nothing for genius.\\nWhich is a disturbing force on the level of envy,\\nWhere it finds the mass of inertia more widespread and denser,\\nWhere as victim it lives till it finds the release of the martyr.\\nBy genius is meant the hent or the bent independent,\\nThe high assonance of a people laboring together.\\nThis genius may dififer from yours, yet you ought to respect it,\\nAnd not force an average on what has outflown or outgrown you.\\nI wish Freedom knew how to keep still and not nag at her sisters.\\nI mean Freedom as she lives with us, and not with some other people.\\nThough whether as mistress or guest she brings lots of trouble.\\nAdhere to our own, the sole basis of lasting progression.\\nDo not revolt if you do you will smash your traditions,\\nNot of government only, but those which are higher and ethnic.\\nA race that has lost its traditions begins the world over,\\nThe Adam of tribes; it is almost as bad as being conquered.\\nRemember, ye dreamers whose starting-point is destruction,\\nNot an inch can you lift up your lowly by smashing traditions.\\nI mean the traditions of race, not of sins nor of errors.\\nI could call up some shining examples, but leave you to guess them.\\nSince my mission is not to ofTend noi exhaust, but suggest things.\\nHe who-settles things commonly settles them for an upset.\\nHe is generally serious, too; which sets other men laughing,\\nAnd that is the trait most commendable in his labor.\\n6i.\\nPoise not on its apex the pyramid So said Dan Webster,\\nNot only as statesman colossus, but mighty as thinker,\\nWho at one time was head of the state, while a figurehead seemed such.\\nThere is ia a man something greater than man, said George Bancroft.\\nThese were great men forever; your safety depends on their maxims\\nAnd on th(j practice of others from sources scarce lesser,\\nThough Saint John of apocalyptic imagination\\nFigured nothing so strange as some of Dan Webster s successors.\\nYet, as the age is not smaller, but bigger, the men should be bigger;\\n68", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Perhaps they are, but proportion makes them look pigmies,\\nAnd comparing them seems Hke remanding a nation to chaos.\\nWhere the leaders follow the tumult they dare not discriminate.\\nNo people should force its government to break treaties\\nIndirectly, nor by assuming that others have broken them.\\nNo worse faith than gratuitous- imputation of motive\\nOr act to cover your own, and contemptibly transparent.\\nIt is already broken, says he who would break it.\\nThat is a subterfuge because you dare not be honest,\\nAnd does more to debase mankind than could ten thousand prizefights.\\nSome things ought to perish, but be not a simple iconoclast.\\nNo breakers of faith are more curst than those governed by bluster.\\nWith your votes make the law then move onward from that as your basis.\\nThis is the theory on wine-nights by statesmen of taprooms,\\nIntoned with intention to tickle the Tammany tympanum.\\nLet us set up progressive anthropological order;\\nProgressive euchre affords fewer chances for betting\\nOn results, and is much more limited in conditions.\\nLet us freely cincture the globe with harmonic conditions,\\nAnd m.ake them integral parts of self-evident destiny!\\nThe States will be with us in this, working part of that destiny,\\nSelf-promotive for opening all doors and uplifting all races.\\nIf a national election pend ever from that of a province.\\nAnd that from a town, and that from the boodle of ginmills,\\nFrom what pends your freedom unless from forbearance of masters?\\nThey own a vote that may make either party the winner,\\nThe hydra of liberty s franchise free to destroy it,\\nMr. Croker, perhaps, being the principal head in the hundred.\\nAcquaint yourself first with your theme; then expound or assault it.\\nThis maxim so oft hath been violate in court circles.\\nThat I as a fool was ashamed of my betters in folly.\\nMy duty is to aid great men to great destination.\\nHaving learned mine own incapacity for such station;\\nIn this way I find the pleasure and they find the trouble.\\nI accept a great man, not forgetting that greatness is relative;\\nExaggerate him, and you sting me to flinder a fetich.\\n69", "height": "2706", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "Evolution is hindered, not aided, by radical changes,\\nWhich are wrong till you find something better than evolution.\\nIt is galvanized ignorance masquerading as wisdom\\nWhich decrees as successes the measures that waddle as failures;\\nBut with waterfall voice and a freshet of iteration\\nTis safe to presume vice and dullness enough for election.\\nFrancis Parkman decides universal suffrage a failure.\\nHe was not the son of a monarchy dreading its advent,\\nBut a democrat sage who lived in its midst and deplored it.\\nI do not say I agree with the late Mr. Parkman\\nI simply note his conviction and courage in speaking,\\nWhile I equally note my conviction and courage in silence.\\nOne may be a great fool or a great man, and as neither be popular.\\nAdvocates of continent union are incontinental\\nOf wisdom; they mean the division of continents surely,\\nBut care not, cherishing only themselves and their moment.\\nYou cannot unite the land by ignoring the water\\nIn any scheme attaching a profit to any one,\\nUnless you diminish the genius of man in its essence.\\nAssail not with separant plots the creative idea\\nOf Him who united all continents by His Oceans!\\nThe union of continents on a globe disunited\\nAnd tariffed like stars inimical to each other,\\nWould be irony of the creature against the Creator.\\nLearn rather to use them both jointly to highest advantage!\\n62.\\nNow, by Saint Parkman and others, here is sound maxim,\\nNo matter how few nor how many may vote to sustain it!\\nThe power of the purse, exercised by the people s assembly.\\nWhether the parish assembly or that of the kingdom.\\nIs all that a nation should ever admit as elective;\\nSince all things elective give too many things to take care of.\\nFilling the platforms with demagogues of all dogma.\\nConfusing the mind and wasting the time of the citizen.", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Growth is a plant that grows slowly, but confidence comes of it,\\nAnd confidence equals a Himalaya of swagger.\\nBut it does not result from mere spread of the mind over everything.\\n62^.\\nBritish freedom is quite imperfect, and so is American.\\nMy advocacy of dual convergence of destiny\\nApplies not to any special event, or decade, or epoch,\\nBut is pressed for all time; because, howsoever imperfect\\nEither development of liberty may be, there is really no other.\\nSad, but other freedom, even embryonic, exists not.\\nTalk of it there is, and science, and arts, and civilization; but not freedom.\\nAny man, briefly, who elsewhere, putting it plainly.\\nHas tried to enforce a right as a right, without favor.\\nSimply to maintain the principle solely, has found such enforcement im-\\npossible\\nOutside the States and Britain, and not always there possible.\\nNeither alone can maintain freedom, nor ally with another\\nTo maintain it; this also is true and final; for such other\\nWould strictly not know what freedom means; any other.\\nHerein is on slur; other valuable things other peoples\\nComprehend much more finely than do Britons or Americans; but liberty\\nAs the absolute right, not the privilege, of free being.\\nThese peoples, otherwise variously estimable, know not,\\nAnd are thus fundamentally, if innocently, antagonistic.\\nThis paragraph is not exhaustive, but brief and suggestive.\\nI know what it means out of travel and study and money.\\nNeither alone can do everything; both, and no other two, can do anything.\\nNeither alone is even safe for a wholly free existence,\\nA knowledge ignored in the States, but accepted in Britain.\\nLet the prejudiced partisans who vote and vote in both countries\\nThink this out to a finish prior to allying or denying.\\nOf this canto the hexametrical part is omitted\\nThat you better might heed the matter than manner of singing.\\n71", "height": "2706", "width": "1964", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "63-\\nRich men are almightily smart. I praise no one s acumen\\nIn saying this, since their vanity looks for such flattery.\\nA nation in silver so rich as to beggar its value,\\nSo wealthy in one precious metal it ceased to be precious,\\nMade a law to pay premium by way of enriching the people,\\nTaxed the people a premium in order to help them grow richer,\\nAnd it kept making money by law till its coflfers were bursting.\\nWhen half the banks suddenly failed and trade came to a standstill;\\nAnd with money by thousands of tons men went hard up for bus fare.\\nI mean the rich men made this law for the whole of the people\\nBy dicker with politicians who needed their influence.\\nBear in mind that I do not say this; I quote those who do say it.\\nIs that part of success as it swells in triumphant republics?\\nIf this be the wisdom of dems, what is that of the anarchs?\\nIf this be the true love of one s country, what is ironic?\\nGive us credit and gold, though we touch little gold, and stability.\\nWhile silver destroys its coin-worth by excessive production,\\n64.\\nvRich men are not always so bright. I hurt nobody s feelings\\nIn saying this, because no one admits he is wealthy.\\nIn cathedral, steam-heated, their gospel is that of privation\\nTo the men of Paul s walk, not his church, in the rain, snow, or hailstorm.\\nAnd their satellites twinkle it out as the lamps of the tenebrae.\\nCardinal Hfred once so preached when I could not preach back at him\\nThe ironic sermon of clown to the prelate of finance.\\nHere I paint his cathedral red tis the tint the most striking,\\nAnd is worse for his cause than it would be to tatter his sermon,\\nRed being not only the color suggestive of warning,\\nBut likewise suggesting equally doctrinal warming.\\n65-\\nBut Cardinal Hfred will preach on with the world to him kneeling.\\nAnd my carmine will make his cathedral all the more famous,\\n72", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "So long as by day and by decade the press spreads his doctrine,\\nWhile to me it gives not even space enough to condemn me,\\nAfraid of the mass of mankind to allow me one audience,\\nOr even to remind me such topic is not for a jester.\\nSlowly these victims of hornet celestial get money.\\nAs that cataplasms the sting, rights become incidental.\\nThen the million-men buy, as they once bought a tribune I know of,\\nAnd the clientage made of the poor buy the praises of rich men\\nIn the advocate which was founded to damn them in morals.\\nWhen virtue gets strong enough to be dangerous, you buy it.\\nMust all purposes gravitate to the purpose of money?\\nIs gold ore the loadstone of morals as well as of interest?\\nThe dawn-rising toiler who goeth to bed when the moon goes\\nWould win against him of short hours even in socialist system,\\nIf we had it established, says Gibson. I should not deny it,\\nWere it not for the fact that socialism subjugates selfism\\nAnd substitutes altruism; do you see this, O Senator?\\nIt eliminates the porcine part of the dawn-worrier s nature.\\nI tell you what socialists tell me, and guarantee nothing.\\nEstablish a press of your own and support it, ye pencemen,\\nAnd let never the note of a guineaman ring in its columns.\\nMaintain this a full generation; thereon the cathedral,\\nNot needing retouch of my carmine, for you will be ready,\\nV/hile Cardinal Hfred takes his turn at a street-preacher s meeting.\\nHigh-priest of the sons of bare head and the heirs of the shoeless.\\n66.\\nWe are free to sneer at and blow up what is aristocratic.\\nBut must speak with affection and awe of the things democratic\\nOn pain of being publicly hissed as proud, brutal and caddish;\\nThat is, the achievements that go by the name democratic.\\nAs though born of themselves, without aid, contribution, suggestion.\\nThere is no reason why these should not have their innings.\\nThe Most High is the patron of such in his large declaration,\\nAnd when He permits them to win, the scale is colossal,\\n73", "height": "2751", "width": "1974", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "Full of chromatical blare, and oration, and dazzle.\\nThe diagnosis of this situation is easy.\\nThe Lord made the poor, and the rich have improved the material\\nAs the Lord intended, I deem, or he would not permit it.\\nYet so much is allowed that is not of celestial beginning,\\nThat perchance I am wrong in ascribing to fortune such origin.\\nThe fortunate seek to evade the eye of the needle,\\nOr, rather, the destiny involved in the parable.\\nThey brought nothing into this w^orld, any more than the fellow\\nWhose giant mind never gets hit by the lightning of Plutus.\\nAnd they do not appear to take any more hence when they leave it.\\nYet some plutocs so-deemed leave so little, I think they must take some,\\n]\\\\Iany incidents in the plot of the comedy human!\\nThe rich ought not to be rich, nor the poor be unwealthy,\\nIf we judge by the deadlock where both parties flounder by cycles.\\nThere is no affectation in taking this view rather courage.\\nTo rave at superior like parson at sin tasks no bravery.\\nThe right of abuse is proportioned to absence of money.\\nThe right to be critic, if rich, should be never admitted.\\nTis the ill-favored land makes the people industrious and honest.\\nThe clime that creates of itself all the needs of the human,\\n\\\\Miile the well-favored land makes them careless, ungrateful and slothfuL\\nI am one of the connnon herd by both birth and misfortune.\\nOr a whole common herd in myself, or I dared not have writ this.\\nTo be varied of topic is not to be careless or aimless.\\nAs you will confess by tlie time I get through with the patriots,\\nIncluding the Wellington type and the Tammany heelman.\\nFaust and Don Juan are not cut like Electra and Iliad,\\nYet either is equally classical and immortal.\\n67.\\nMen continent burdened are short of imagination.\\nThose lovers of acres as acres, no matter who owns them.\\nItaly, to the square mile, is surcharged with population;\\nBut, while fertile as beautiful, the attraction of beauty\\n74", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Is first on the tongues of her sons as on those of the strangers,\\nThe bountifulness of the arts being the primal impression;\\nForty times larger country is forty times as deficient.\\nPinion-weary the spirit too long on the wing of dominion!\\nToo much real estate is alert to exclude the ideal.\\nThe hopes and the forms of the mind and the eye lose their outlines\\nIn the dull content and the narrow passion of owning;\\nSo that a novel idea creates a disturbance,\\nEven a joke interjected for lightening the land-burdened spirit.\\nAll ideas must favor the objects of seizing and holding.\\nSome approvable ways I am hinting of getting and keeping\\nWithout regard to the wishes or feelings of others.\\nThe safest way to get rich is by unearned accretion\\nOn the unimproved by the earning improvements of neighbors.\\nAnd greater than Warren Hastings is he who first grasps it.\\nWho first locates the lot and then waits for his friends to build round it.\\nBut for this you must locate the lot, and then pay nothing for it,\\nIn a spot where your neighbors are crazy to put up big buildings.\\nThis suggests that sudden riches are not always easy.\\nCut if we discuss it at all, let us grasp it like Hastings,\\nWho first grasped, then discussed, and then owned more securely than ever.\\nRich men continent-crammed are grasping in ratio to riches;\\nFrom which tis inferred some new men will adjust the relations.\\nBut that is a prompting of envy; when a man goes to greatness,\\nWhat matters it whether he went there by chance or by merit?\\nWho shall say chance is not part of the means providential.\\nAnd therefore integrally part of the greatness arrived at?\\nIf I deem myself big and my partner but little and lucky,\\nWhy did I lack the desert that discovered his chances?\\nI cannot be great for another, unless through his fortune,\\nYet both would be poor and unknown were it not for such fortune.\\nLet us give this conundrum up and go on with the story.\\nThere are a few millions like Midas to one like George Peabody.\\nYou would deem that vast space would aggrandize their minds, but it does-\\nnot.\\nIf one owned a mile wide of town lots from one sea to another,", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "His mind would be narrow in geometric proportion.\\nYe whom I hit, strike me back, and thereon I will name you 1\\nI should like to name names as Parliament never dared do it.\\nThe satiric buffoon full of detail is vastly more dangerous\\nThan inimical editor hedging in fear of a lawsuit,\\nOr a member afraid of expulsion if lacking proof technic.\\n68.\\nStuffed with all riches, these gentry are satiate, vae nobis!\\nNothing is as it ought not to be, but all as it should be\\nIn this little pamphlet; art sure thou art reading it rightly?\\nNothing else is more curst, neither poorer nor coarser than pursepride,\\nYet could I tell of the men loud and proud in its praises.\\nWhy have they talents? To win them the purse of superbia,\\nThe means to be showy in one of the capital vices\\nBy the capital talent to stumble on treasure-trove chances.\\nTherefore let them be proud of their fortune, not of what won it.\\nNature denied them the gift of being modest when lucky.\\nAs to most she refuses the gift of being lucky when modest.\\nWhen my lines contradict each other, the truth lies between them.\\n69.\\nWhat good do you find in the tales of the millions you touch not?\\nDoes it warm you, half frozen and homeless, to pass a bright window\\nAt night, where music comes through, whereon flame-figures flicker?\\nI tell how things are; if you do not like them, reform them.\\nThere is little of moral sense now; everything is called business.\\nThere are parsons who preach that the moral sense never was higher.\\nThe argument is that charity is abundant.\\nThis signifies mainly that business never was better.\\nSo are the means; they abound in a larger proportion.\\nWhich is proof of the need of a system not needing charity.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Organized charity is a system of salaries\\nThat pays clerks for pitying the fellows who need what they ask for;\\n76", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "The more pressing the need, the larger the wonder they need it.\\nThis is the parson s delight, but his mind is not worldly\\nIn the sharp knowledge required for distributing agent.\\nHis heart right and his system wrong, he dares not denounce it\\nFor fear of rich vestrymen, richer and stronger than ever,\\nAnd would preach the same doctrine in Hades, if parson could go there.\\nParsons, like hotellians, must work for the men who support them.\\nMorals are not yet quite dead, but business absorbs them.\\nBut let me be just: With a better life, parsons were better.\\nYou may not be great man of afifairs because of large business,\\nOr you m ay; or may dazzle the world as an accident lucky\\nTill the ratio inverse of ability unto duty\\nShall enable you to ruin yourself and your partners.\\nPerhaps this is what the capitalist is afraid of\\nWhen you seek his approval and wealth in your venture colossal.\\nPraise him who earned fortune and kept it and died and bequeathed it,\\nThat is, if you set up the egoist as your model.\\n70.\\nIhe distinction of the poor is their poverty; no one denies it.\\nThough some parties call it destruction: this is misnomer.\\nThey survive, as we see. Their distinction is due to the Pluti,\\nWho discover them apt for and fill them with doctrinal wadding.\\nTo our land of the overpeopled their own Pluti drive them.\\nTheir poor men seeking to syndicate a bonanza\\nWhence a newspaper legend of mine wealth was chipped from the matrix.\\nThey hoping our public might not yet have learned of the legend.\\nIt seems a reporter had previously printed a notice\\nAbout this bonanza and had not been paid for his praises;\\nSo he went with the party to witness the process of salting,\\nAnd combining with vengeance the glee of a devil defeated,\\nHe slyly slipped into the salting his clip of description.\\nWhere it formed a geological part of the value.\\nOur pubHc, I know, take but little of heavy reflection,\\n77", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "But of irony, epigram, satire, they never find surfeit;\\nAnd a journalist-tale in a matrix is good for all ages;\\nIt would put an hilarious new theme in the temple Olympian,\\nIf I mav judge by the mirth of the court when I told it.\\nThe best seasoned god finds new joke in such ingenuity,\\nAnd nothing ingenuous in reporter or salters.\\nThose bonanza-boys come to our land where intelligent friction,\\nOr too many heads to the acre, compel a solution.\\nWhere enterprise lives unforbidden by corporate saintdom.\\nFrom the lands where enterprise lies in the morgue of the Pluti.\\nLies dead because it had lied to their mass of investors.\\nDo they come to lay pipe for the small hoards of widows and orphans\\nAs slyh as he of the story laid in his description.\\nThus destruction is not the port of the poor, but distinction\\nIn landing with us to land schemes their home-Plutocs had scuttled.\\nEver narrow and cold will the world be, devoted to hoarding.\\nYou must gTeatly expend to be great, and be quick to perceive it\\nIf you be tired of repeating the past and its failures.\\nBetter man of business the altruist than the miser,\\nSince he is, in one sense or another, a master of movement.\\nI repeat, as a mere man of business he is superior.\\nBut that does not make it his duty to help foreign salters.\\nTis an old platitude to refer to the Earner,\\nBut the system should be so arranged as to leave all men earners;\\nOr all men witli chances to earn; not some willing and victims,\\nWhose needs are as large and intense as are his with ten incomes.\\nThat is the trend of the giant minds fin-de-siecle.\\nFor they trend, when they start, like a coast to make inlets for commerce,\\n^Meeting the minds that trend to stay commerce by tariff.\\nThe gambler and idler and clipper of coupons enrich not.\\nThough as mere occupation that of the clipper quite clips me.\\nBut where money earns interest, that is not a man earning money,\\nThough the money, not doing this if it could, would be silly.\\nI am straddling here to keep friends w-ith both labor and capital.\\nYet he who begins with capital as an earner\\nIs a fellow who has an advantage over his fellow,\\n78", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Having not only labor but ialjor s results to begin with.\\nDo not seek on this theme to bluff me, or yourself, or another;\\nBut whatever you deem or desire, the winner is winner.\\n71-\\nThe worst portent seems as deep as the marrow in nature:\\nTis the worship of thorax in oratorical action.\\nOr of pen-bent intelligence wrestling to free some new notion.\\nMan loves his own voice, and is vain of the popular plaudits.\\nAnd when boy I missed never a chance to applaud a stump speaker,\\nPrecisely as you whoop up your great man in this epoch\\nWhen he solves problems by airing them to the public,\\nThat is, when he solves them by airing the need of solution.\\nWhen he shall put off this pride and rate talk as a razzle\\nAnd airing a process that simply invites further airing.\\nAt twenty guineas per night and first-class hotel paid;\\nWhen he works for results to a plan with mechanic precision,\\nHe v/ill touch in the end what the puffers have dreamed for the masses.\\nTill that day he will attitudinize on a platform.\\nThe uneasy mind getting paid for reform by the evening,\\nOr stips literary for writing of what we attain not.\\nLet us cheer till he cannot hear his own voice, this professor\\nOf good times inconveniently distant dangled before us;\\nLet us applaud him to death, this perennial reformer.\\n72.\\nThe promoter never works for his own disadvantage.\\nAppeal not to lavish expenditure to disprove me,\\nXor to hospitalit} favorite fad of the selfish;\\nMere interest advanced to get hold of another man s principal\\nBy some plotter seeking to pawn geological figment;\\nA blind chance at possible wealth in the fury of avarice.\\nThese are part of the splurge, of the dazzle and bluff of the racket.\\nHospitality is a fetich long needing the tomahawk,\\n79", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "And if it were not for some friends, I believe I should wield it.\\nYet why ought private regard to prevent public duty?\\nBe there not those who sacrifice friends to the public;\\nAnd commit, as a part of their patriotism, private high treason?\\nMeanwhile I think about dinners, postponing my duty.\\n73.\\nA trainboy may rise up in riches to buy a Velasquez,\\nBut a palace-car decoration were more to his gusto\\nIf he did not covet the fame of owning a masterpiece.\\nIs he not justified? Surely. I hasten to prove it.\\nGood taste should be spread, and ex-trainboys should help to distribute it-\\nPraxiteles was a rich man as well as a sculptor,\\nAnd Sir Francis Chantrey was wealthy outside his profession:\\nBoth gifted by fortune, you see, as well as by nature.\\nA rich man like either would starve himself for the beautiful,\\nWhile the lucky trainboy would merely buy it with money,\\nProud with a quid of tobacco to own a Velasquez.\\nMere capacity to buy is no proof of his judgment,\\nNor of lack of it; neither of taste, but of simply his money;\\nBut the dictum of ages imposes itself on his innings,\\nThough he cannot ascend to the stature of Praxi nor Chantrey.\\nI could not congratulate him on a dozen Velasquez\\nUnless for the purpose of making them gifts to the pujblic.\\nSince the gods of Hellas retired or expired, no successors\\nHave inspired equal forms, equal lovers of form for its own sake,\\nAnd in passion for color and form burns the genius artistic;\\nTherefore may we be grateful meanwhile even for such patron\\nAs the self-lover self-made, who desires you to know it,\\nThis man good to himself in grand gou and deserving acknowledgment,.\\nWho bought a Velasquez in order to help you to know him\\nIn the exercise of his right as a man with the money.\\nAnd in sublimate passion to aid in good taste distribution\\nBy acquiring the fame of having it locked in his parlor.\\nThe artist must live, and one s money is good as another s,\\n80", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Though Velasquez is dead in the glor_v of art and its sorrow,\\nAnd neither he nor new compeer is helped by the purchase.\\nThe fresh millionaire faints when you call for the courage of critic.\\nI do not refer to the pluck of the bull, but the critic.\\nLet him boast of the ownership, also the guineas it cost him.\\nHalf a loaf or no bread? I will take half the loaf and Velasquez,\\nTrusting him to find his way to a gallery later\\nAnd to educate there many trainboys in canvas of value,\\nWhile I pray the dead gods to revive and remodel the self-made.\\nNot necessarily he who growls rich grows beneficent;\\nHe may or may not, but examples discourage us greatly.\\nAnd the few who have conquered themselves are remembered as titans.\\nThe millionaire gives you the chance to display your fine raiment\\nAt his ball, my fine lady; but what is that for beneficence?\\nYou have looked down on those too poor to be thither invited;\\nYou have saturated your soul and your garments with egoism\\nAnd gone home tired out; and live only for chance to repeat it;\\nAnd some of you defend this as the new Revelation.\\nHave I not heard you defend it, soaked in court-lustre?\\n74.\\nBetter the average of comfort than isolate splendors.\\nNo democrat can go further than that, nor speak warmlier;\\nFew democrats dare go so far, since the socialist pillory\\nAwaits him who has courage to dream of all men free and happy,\\nAll equal, all happy, all free in the genuine meaning.\\nSuch an one was a bard in old times, but is now a disturber r\\nPlutus replaces the bard; not the god of equality.\\nAs general beneficence seems to get nearer the masses\\nThe few quake, though these dreams, if concreted, would make them the\\nricher.\\nCarnot asked if liberty be a perennial illusion.\\nIs the real popular good a perennial false vision,\\nI would ask of Lazare, whose career is the pride of all patriotism.\\nNow let the hirelings of millions combine for their vengeance!\\n81", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "Let the starvelings on other men s riches proclaim every Plutus\\nA Pericles of talent as well as of money;\\nA Servius Tullius of kingly consideration,\\nOr a wit like tired President Lincoln announcing the folly\\nOf saving the constitution and losing the country.\\nThere are great and good others with whom a comparison flatters.\\nHave I not committed the crime of lampooning the upstart\\nAnd so started up those who prosper by flattering that fellow?\\nIf the starvelings fail to exinguish me, sack them, O Pluti!\\nAnd hire a new gang to distribute the doctrinal wadding,\\nOne more hungry, more thirsty, more transmissive as well as receptive.\\n75-\\nLong vogue as a prophet may come to a demon of irony\\nIn arts and politics, though he be whole unbeliever.\\nNot to believe greatly aids in constructing abstractions.\\nThe builder being unhampered by faith or enthusiasm.\\nSuch an one may persuade generations to deem him sincere in them;\\nHe may influence nations to bloodshed in support of his theories,\\nWhile, bloodless and soulless himself, he laughs at his triumph\\nIn conducting a race to a destiny tragico-comico.\\nThe States, France and Britain possess each a shining example.\\nMephistos of men, three nations mistake them for prophet?\\nOf ultimate social truth and political wisdom.\\n75h\\nTo aver that a difificulty is an opportunity\\nHath a lofty sound, and is worthy the late Earl of Derby.\\nIn verifying the dictum luck was not always with me.\\nSuppose socialism should possess by avowal a Beaconsfield,\\nQuite sincere, and illustrious as he was in ofifice and letters,\\nBut without independent fortune; he would be failure.\\nSince he would not take money of poor men for doing his duty.\\nWhile with wind alone he could not. Then figure a poor man,\\n82", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Socialist till rich, unexpectedly rich from source sudden,\\nAnd turning his back on the record. These two suppositions.\\nWhich regarding big advocacy present the case fully,\\nShow where the cause of the poor becomes jammed, and I know it,\\nBecause in many a nation I watched its development\\nAs spectator too diffident and too slight for supporter.\\nAnd not knowing how to win if disposed to be champion,\\nWhich I did not incline to be. Now, what is the remedy?\\nLord Beaconsfield and I being dished, I recur to a Moses\\nFor moral command, and a Burke for impressive unfolding,\\nCombined with the technical skill of some modern trust magnate\\nOf big millions, to establish this cause; and for him I still whistle.\\nHe deems wealth a chance, sees in poverty a condition,\\nAnd in its extinction a theory to tickle philosophers\\nAnd to drive economists mad, while he remains magnate.\\n76.\\nIncrease of knowledge is increase of borrow, said Solomon;\\nIncrease of borrow of trouble; he called it sorrow;\\nWhich is merely the borrowing of bad, not good, from the future,\\nIf you can only harden your heart to believe it.\\nI pity not him of worry, but him who is proof against it.\\nWith him sympathy is pure chance; a moral result a mere accident.\\nSometimes I make mine own texts; sometimes I take others.\\nSolomon learned it as man; as king could transmit it to history.\\nIt might not have lived had a person of low degree said so,\\nP or surely tis one of the things we would rather believe not,\\nWhether you read as he wrote or as I have transposed it;\\nWhich clearly shows that high sayings should come from high fellows.\\nA certain degree of authority goes with an office\\nWhich the man who held it lacks when he goes with the exes.\\nAre we snobs to exaggerate first and then to depreciate?\\nBut whence comes this solemn relation of knowledge to sorrow?\\nKnowledge binds not a friend, because, by so much as you swell it.\\nYou attenuate the bonds that hold you to equals.\\n83", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "When Harvey discovered, did medicoes seek to sustain him?\\nSo long as he li^-ed they denied hke an aggregate Peter,\\nThis is neither deep nor dry, and it ought to be obvious.\\nAs knowledge augments, the sphere of its use is diminished\\nUntil you have drummed up the learners slow and resistive.\\nI mean strictly the stuff which the king and the world have called knowl-\\nedge,\\nBut not my ideal; make no charge of self-contradiction!\\nTo be czar of intelligence is to be dreadfully gifted.\\nSince that makes it impossible to have fun with an equal.\\nAnd between unequals gravity only can flourish;\\nAnd this, carried too far and maintained too long, becomes madness.\\nIsolate height was the source of King Solomon s sorrow;\\nWhose court more than Henry the Eighth s might have needed Will\\nSomers,\\nHad he not been comedian and songster as well as the monarch\\nAnd he was, I infer from his poems, exempt from all mascotry,\\nFrom respect for the practice whereby women keep in that order.\\nBut false doctrine that leads to the true, in itself is true doctrine,\\nThough the chance of the truth shall not make the false prophet a true\\none.\\nThe majority trusts not until it can climb to your level.\\nAll this is a paradox seeming of mental expansion\\nWhen serious enough to quit contemplation of Columbine,\\nAnd the cause of lone pride to the intellectual leader,\\nWho is fortunate in not going so high up as Solomon.\\nThey come to his posture at last with a kicking surrender.\\nHelpless, ungrateful, unworthy of having been lifted;\\nAnd the contemplation of dullness saddens enlightenment;\\nSo that, after all, the pantomime gives us more comfort.\\n77-\\nTake out from the past its conceits and so value it truly.\\nThe poor past, full of signs for blind guides and of texts for false preachers.\\nTrue history is to be found in the public records only;\\n84", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "All else is but others opinion of what should have made it,\\nConfounding virtue and making even patriotism pernicious.\\nThe man of business is he who knows his own business,\\nNot he who dabbles in all men s, not knowing any.\\nTell this to Bill Tip who would make you his next traviato.\\nBe he gifted of Wall Street or sequent of Colonel Jack Battleship.\\nMost seers see too much; their visions obscure one another,\\nThough glory glows to a flame from the spark of conception.\\nTo touch too many topics might even confuse an Isaiah,\\nThe loftiest and most oratorical of the prophets.\\nOr make him confute himself by excess of description,\\nSince the noble art of stopping is no part of frenzy.\\nThis paragraph shows up the up-to-date style of non sequitur.\\n78.\\nGive me the man who can seize an idea from the future\\nAnd train the present to quicker and firmer grasp of it;\\nHe is the patriot deserving well of his country\\nAnd worth a whole pantheon full of the priests of dead issues,\\nThe wandering minstrels of ages known as historians\\nAfter the ages are past; any fellow could be one;\\nOr a capitol full of the statesmen of Naboth s vineyard,\\nThose of Ahab and Jezebel in a Christian century\\nSeeking filibustero pretexts for robbing the weaker;\\nThe factors of Antichrist in things other than Christian;\\nGreat men sometimes, whom experiment grinds into demagogues\\nOr flings out of public life, thus annulling their uses,\\nTo accept in their stead the sublimate sons of a theory\\nWhose practice and pride is the opportunism of a forum.\\nYou are too sure of the doubtful: take public opinion;\\nOne never knows when it will jump on its last previous whimsy,\\nTake tariff and silver abroad as a clearly mixt instance.\\nTake them abroad and anchor them out of the country;\\nHenceforth the world sails with trade free and appreciative money.\\nNow, my philosophic friend, let us question a little.\\n85", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "Does democracy make men more gracious, one with another,\\nAny democracy not that of a country particular?\\nThe self-principle of democratic equality,\\nThe assertion of self over others which always goes with it\\nIn private, as irony upon public profession?\\nDodge not the issue here, nor answer something not asked you.\\nDoes democracy tend to develop the graces of living.\\nOr to smother them and develop the sneer that ignores them.\\nOr insist on new substitutes? That is the point of importance\\nAs suggesting what governs democratic social life ad interim.\\nDoes it lessen the conflict of lusts and the fury of interests?\\nStrike, but hear me! I am the fool pothook-laden with questions\\nWhich boil whenever the fires of thought are stirred under them\\nAnd on interrogation-points try to catch answers.\\nTake not yourself too seriously, nor let me so take you.\\nI desire to project some new schemes for the popular amusement,.\\nReserving a number more as to premise and logic.\\nMay I not entertain, if I cannot mstruct, ere the axe fall?\\nSince democracy has condemned us all in the ultimate\\nUnless some plan more adjustable come to displace it.\\nWhy should the chief of the state be the foe of the nation\\nIn the estimation of those who abstained from electing him?\\nWill the ultimate perfect come out of such a tentative,\\nThe attempt to belittle because the majority beat you?\\nI appeal to the thinker outside of political bondage,\\nNot to Tammany heelman with grammar enough to be editor!:\\nWhat was worse than Cromwellian abuse of President Cleveland.\\nWho finally lapsed to a Canning Professor of Jingo?\\nThe fate-banished sons of the feudal who dwell in republics\\nBecome the most eager and sordid of all who love millions.\\nNot the halcyon voters of equal-free-fortune system.\\nInherited craving, not system political, governs them.\\nNothing else incites so grave doubts of political formulas,\\nNeither suscitates so deep grief for the heirs of redemption,.\\nA naphtha-monopoly stinks the east wind for Manhattan\\nAnd no district or other attorney dares sue to suppress it;,\\n86", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "I appeal to the noses that dwell on a fourth of that island.\\nYet monarchy is effete and republic is glorious.\\nWhat private monopoly stinks any free wind for London?\\nBy preliminary means of the corporate principle\\nHas democracy taken the route to the sphere of autocracy?\\nIs it destined to grow to one head in the name of too many?\\nDespite himself, shall the democrat glide into autocrat\\nTo preserve intact the system of wagemen and millionaires,\\nWith free scheme of ten milHons to nothing, not million to million?\\nIf he shall, what then will become of the plum-pudding populist?\\nWill autocracy, as political cannibal, eat him?\\nNow, whether autocracy, socialism or democracy\\nBring the greatest good to my ninety-and-nine who most need it,\\nOr monarchy British, this pamphlet will injure no interests,\\nBut will focalize thought on the various archies and systems\\nAnd will strengthen that in the end which is most meritorious.\\nF or I love the race, not as one by celestial appointment,\\nNor as prophet, nor poet, nor doctrinaire, with such purpose\\nAs goes with professional lover; but as simple believer\\nIn acceptance of moral law at the end of experience.\\nIn the pace to that goal let us take what we may of amusement.\\nNext to my passion for ridiculing the bogus\\nComes my pleasure in asking approval for that which deserves it;\\nAnd, wholly free of conceit, I leave you to select it,\\n79-\\nIn the day of the condemnation of seizures piratic\\nAnd the spiking of maritime guns by tribunal elective,\\nWith lustrums of universal peace in the offing.\\nWhat more imposing than warfleets with dummy-guns loaded\\nAnd commanded by men like me, deep in first cabin knowledge?\\nWe should admire them like kings in the glare of the footlights.\\nOr the ground-spry and lofty magicians of sawdust and tinsel.\\nAs new pantomime for old boys who require a new laughter.\\nThe arbiter sails in the fore with bow and stern-chasers ashore left.\\n87", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "The new admiral is he whose gun hath a bang more melodious,\\nA range of more definite blank, a more slow-burning powder.\\n80.\\nMephistopheles on the ocean seems doomed to inaction;\\nHe lacks principle still, while not daring to set up a pretext,\\nAnd his navy is not yet quite up to the mark in proportion.\\nA party created by war must continue by bloodshed,\\nNo matter what is the party nor whose is the patria;\\nThey hug tlie\u00c2\u00abold issues and whoop up the people on victory.\\nIn the creed of Ben-Politisham all things are holy,\\nAs holy things likewise are sham for the ends of his faction.\\nThe seeking of quarrels may be a professional duty.\\nIf the king can do no wrong, even less can the party.\\nHere I digress for old man s new advice to all nations.\\nI have lived in them all, thus acquiring some rights to opinion,\\nTo opinion that is not the froth of conceit patriotic.\\nAnd I love a side-issue or show, and my forte is digression.\\nWhen your next war is finished, refuse to consider a treaty.\\nSelf-respect, if war be the native condition of nations,\\nRequires that they shall not lie themselves into peace-treaties\\nOnly to suffer the useless disgrace of their fracture.\\nThe superfluous neutralization of glory by falsehood.\\nMoreover, a bond never binds where an interest is greater;\\nThis is a technical reason for not making treaties.\\nHere your statesman fifes up his war and drums in his patriots.\\nSign a certificate simply that you have stopped fighting,\\nSo that the neutrals may know how to act on the ocean.\\nAt some point a party to treaty begins to interpret,\\nAs on that of Eighteen- Eighteen or of Clayton-Bulwer,\\nNo offence to John M., or Sir Henry, or either great nation;\\nSome one wishes to have his own way, so he calls it interpret,\\nLaw being the only place where plain words have two meanings.\\nThe other politely rejects the interpretation,\\nWhich leaves the defeated sore and disposed to denounce it\\n88", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": ".All in friendly part, of course; though it seems not quite pleasant\\nWhen cosignatory shows you were wrong in the signing.\\nThe joke is on him till he shows he was right in the signing,\\nOr if neither was right, tis colossal, ironic and solemn.\\nFull of chances for new Secretaries to make reputations.\\nThen one will outgrow, in the course of nature, the treaty;\\nThis is merely a question of time, and nothing can change it;\\nSo obvious that even a fool is superfluous in saying it.\\nThen comes quid pro quo; but each wishes the quid without quo,\\nAnd quid and quo both are hung up in the status quo ante.\\nIt m.atters not who are the parties, nor what is the compact,\\nThe outgrowing country will certainly strive for its freedom.\\nJust as, in compounding the treaty, it tried overreaching.\\nAt length faith and the treaty come broken, some heads being included,\\nWhile no treaty had meant no diplomacy and no fighting.\\nOr if we decline your proposition for treaty.\\nAttack us; no reason for war in itself is a reason.\\nFor why should a reasonless thing look about for a reason?\\nIf you hurry your ally into retaliation.\\nAssault him and make your own terms, unless he should lick you.\\nAnd swear that he did not retaliate, but simply provoked you.\\nOn putting the foe in the wrong hangs your whole moral fortune.\\nAnd to do that, spare not millions of cubes of oration.\\nYet your moral fortune imports not, provided you lick him.\\nStand on your readiness; never mind the morals; lick him!\\nBe brave with material reasons; not coward with pretexts.\\nThe satirist and the satyr alone defy humbug.\\n8i.\\nStrange that a man just verging fivescore should need say it,\\nBut your ally will rob you the instant he thinks it will pay him;\\nKing Richard the First and King Philippe Auguste set the pace yet;\\nMediaeval robbers sparing each other while allied,\\nShaking hands and swearing to loyalty during alliance.\\nIf I tell who he is he may use my remark as a pretext.\\n89", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "You may look in vain, alas! for true ethics in statecraft.\\nIf you think there is more than the dregs, quit the state and turn church^\\nman;\\nIt is nobler to try to save souls than to lie to immortals.\\nBetter leave yourselves free for new deal or fresh grab any moment.\\n82.\\nThis is seriously worthy a trifle more of attention\\nFrom triflers, the serious men having already got through with it.\\nIf blufif work well at home, why not on the foreigners try it?\\nIf it fail, you have only humiliated your country,\\nThough not in a way that may hurt your particular feelings.\\nParticularity differs in men as in nations.\\nAnd sometimes the nations grow gay at burlesque of punctilio.\\nThe errors and crimes of a country must not be admitted;\\nThe motives were high, or what is the use of state^papers?\\nConfession is good in a man, but not in a people;\\nThe collective rule, in such case, would outrage its dignity.\\nDouble-bank and misbank, on your bluster and foreign poltroonery^\\nAnd still worship the statesman whose genius procured the affliction..\\nNever distant a block is a fisticuff if you wish one.\\nIf you really mean war, one pretext is good as another;\\nAnd the editor is the General of musses gratuitous.\\nYou meet in guise godly the enemy s declaration\\nIf he make it first; but if his be too slow in the coming.\\nYou call God to witness the outrage invoking your vengeance,\\nThe God who said vengeance is mine: I will requite him.\\nAnd if you be blasphemous, also his aid in your gore-game.\\nAnd then pitch in first; you know it was war you were seeking^\\nAnd not only war is a game, but the ways to get into it.\\nThe best being patriotism snivelled in phrase of the Psalmist.\\nBut, as I said, if you want it, tog out your own motive.\\nEqual are virtue and virus if only you get it.\\nNot one right has your enemy if you know you can lick him.\\nIf he claim the natural right to existence and freedom,\\n90", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Shrink not that the world call you arrogant, cowardly, voracious;.\\nThe new moral law is included in opportunism,\\nAnd logic is strong with the party who was not a winner.\\nFor I never knew winner who troubled himself about logic,\\nWhereas the defeated never get tired of explaining.\\nFear not to use your God s name to cover the covetous.\\nLet both prate of natural rights the more potent will take them.\\nYou are not in his way; but whether or not is no matter.\\nYou are always right in your own opinion; and others\\nHave no right to be right in theirs; it is merely assumption\\nIn them; but you cannot err; there is no other difference.\\nManifest destiny is only one part of God s order.\\nAnd not less it belongs to one nation than to another,\\nSince contingent it is upon how its professor shall work it.\\nAnd must seriously count with the chances of being successful.\\nWith the chances against it destiny is a boomerang,\\nHowso manifest it might be in a miscalculation.\\nBut I will not now lengthen this dictum out with a lesson.\\nAn executive gave me his mind, but that was in confidence.\\nA small war had a bigger result than many a bigger one;\\nA compliment, spite of such war, to the size of the principle.\\nManifest destiny was not big enough to escape it.\\nDual possibilities suddenly loomed from a vision\\nWhich had been single and narrow, spasmodic and selfish,\\nIrresistible morally if you know how to work them;\\nWhich would march of themselves without military commander.\\nAlready empires defiant have halted to ponder it.\\nBut if you dare not affirm what they dread in negation,\\nYour manifest destiny is the dream of an oyster.\\n83.\\nIf you will have war, no matter what punches your animus.\\nSarcasm, subterfuge, paradox, parody, caricature,\\nIrony, falsehood, convenience or love of the bogus\\nWill adorn your pretext as gay as the flutter of ribbons\\n91", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "In the battle of battledores giant and shuttlecocks bloody.\\nQui s explique se complique; but I name no particular nation.\\nIf you be in doubt, preach a little while still getting ready;\\nThen whack him with odds in your favor; and if a Cromwellian,\\nPut the Puritan twang and tone in your justification,\\nAnd bear bonos mores in mind if they turn you in money.\\nAll nations pay tribute to that which is leader in commerce,\\nAdding the banker s commission to all other profits;\\nThus each struggles for primacy in its distribution,\\nFor that commission of banking is much to be coveted.\\nA pirate has written of wresting it; let him rest there,\\nToo old to fight, or to write for the reading of sailors,\\nThis admiral of a quill in a double sense furtive.\\nA colossal mine and unique, trade cannot skip dividend\\nEven if it would; this Golconda of needs and of labor\\nMay be neither shut nor exhausted: thou who art leader,\\nSee that thy powers match the policies of the covetous.\\nSeize Exeter Hall as recruiting tent for the Navy!\\n84.\\nSeek not too much experience, either as man or as nation;\\nAssimilate that of to-day ere you bite at to-morrow.\\nWere I young man I should hope to see arbitration\\nSupplanting the crime and the fuss and feathers of armies;\\nYet should it come to be merely high formule for trickery,\\nI should wish to see it replaced by armies and navies.\\nTry not superfluous experiments just for the fun of it.\\nIf you trouble the tribune of nations merely for claiming,\\nSelf-respect laid aside on the chances of winning or losing,\\nThe high court of peoples may rule you unfit for a plaintiff.\\n85.\\nPolitical things should be those of expediency only;\\nIt ought to be therefore expedient to lessen their number,\\n92", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "To substitute principles fixt for the makeshifts of moments.\\nBut who has the moral power to enforce such expediency?\\nLet the nations appoint a court of honor to do it,\\nA permanent court of equity for such purpose\\nIf Nicholas Second should fail in his scheme of disarmament.\\nThis would put upon honor a premium very much needed\\nIn the sordid era of pubHc and private transactions.\\nMy friend, you have traits duly pondered and valued by others,\\nBut parts of your system were better not copied by Britain,\\nModel and hope of the strenuous, fear of the wrongster,\\nIndividual freedom upholding and therefore collective,\\nSurvivor of fangles and gerent by force of example,\\nAnd justifying the balance of human dominion\\nLike a satellite of the sun among comet-tail orders;\\nA regent of wisdom and light direct from their permanence\\nTo extend and establish for them a sway wider and juster.\\nManifest opener of door in the destiny of all nations.\\nThis is the way a man sets forth to talk of his country\\nWhen smit with a fit of the sentiment called patriotic.\\nOne fellow can do this about as well as another\\nWhen you excite him by contrasts and prick him with failures.\\nThis does not last long. I put it in just to amuse myself.\\nTo set myself up as the butt of my private ironies.\\nSuch seemed to be part of your duty and story, O Britain!\\nTill you thought of the golden rule as an army and navy,\\nLeaving others to covet your ownings and praise your new morals.\\nBe leader and centre and friend of all independents,\\nOf whom the world now has enough to make you independent\\nOf any possible combination of cormorants\\nBy tariff or annexation of alien dominion.\\nThis is simply another phase of manifest destiny\\nIn asserting which my States will be first in supporting you.\\nIf any alien dislike this advice to Great Britain,\\nLet him cut it out and post it straight ofif to his country.\\nIt will fit one nation or patriot as well as another.\\nCut out Britain and me, and put in your name and your country.\\n93", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "Even the open door is not so impartial as I am.\\nWhosoever as god made the globe, made all equal partakers\\nBy commerce of local advantages outside their borders\\nThe more freely they trade with each other the richer their poorest;\\nTo enrich whom is the purpose of states, not to multiply Pluti.\\nGuarantee their possessions then look on their ports as your harbors\\nAnd those of all nations resenting commercial dictation.\\nThe champion of rights universal is always supported:\\nThat is an indefeasible law of existence\\nAnd a source to the champion of moral and physical courage.\\nKeep all ports open and free for all peoples in principle,\\nAnd present recalcitrant states will reluctantly join you,\\nBut with a force standing forth in their very reluctance.\\nInternational relations must henceforth be judged from this basis.\\nLet such an alliance be felt, for it need not be wind-blown.\\nAnd the coveter s wrath would pause aghast at its stature.\\nThe statesmen of bumpkindom cannot be right on all questions,\\nAnd may not be wholly correct on any whatever.\\nLet their major countrymen hold them as permanent minors!\\nI take nothing for granted, whether you like or dislike it.\\nThese themes are too great to be sacrificed to politeness\\nIn discussion, although I do not intend to lack manners.\\nEver}lhing that God made I respect, when I deem that He made it.\\nEverything that man made may be criticized as to motive\\nAs freely as to results, or to process or structure,\\nSince best man, in the last analysis, is a devil\\nIn the buff, that is, stripped of the holiness donned for a winner.\\n86.\\nSwear not by the sanctimony of secular typo.\\nWhich by secular art is more winning than sacerdote polish.\\nNews is bought at the cost of money, or what is called probity,\\nSingly or grouped, as the terms may be put of the holder.\\nThis is news to you if you chance to be new to the business.\\nSorry to let it out, but the popular mind needs some purging,\\n94", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": ".And he who can purge it by telHng- a story is welcome.\\nGeneral Grant once threatened with death of the spy a great editor.\\nHis guest, whom he caught in the act of steaHng dispatches,\\nIntending to risk them by wire, though the wires might be tapt there\\nIn the battle region of luka, where Grant s greatest fame is.\\nWithout pay, I give this as news to the public of nations,\\nI could tell, should I choose, why the General pardoned the editor.\\nBut since Grant was transformed and transferred to invisible temple,\\n-Let another name, if he will, the dehnquent. I will not.\\n87.\\nThe world will outgrow admiration of chance choosing firstmen.\\nWere they chosen because they are first the because would be different.\\nBut Chance has the merit of bringing out merit by chances,\\nA distinction shared by no other power on its merits.\\nWere the honors offered as guerdon of splendid achievement\\nTo leaders in action or thought up to higher attainment,\\nScoring some paces in forestep by genius or struggle,\\nThe choice would inspire the shout of a just acclamation,\\nThe irrepressible voice of complete satisfaction\\nThat Carl Schurz was elected instead of A. Tuff from the Tenderloin.\\nBut when it results from low chance in a factional fury,\\nThe firstman, soon as it reaches him, ought to decline it\\nAs protest on system so frequently vicious in turmoil,\\nKot the local turmoil of hustings, but national upsettings\\nOf the industrial welfare which is really the life of a people.\\nThe force of example is felt not till after you setiit,\\nO proud that no reasoning makes any impression upon you.\\nBest man is the best, but too rare; next to him comes best system.\\nBut no system is equal to Oscar the Second of Sweden,\\nA scheme complete in himself, all the equities humanized,\\nWholly fit to be trusted if no limitations existed.\\nDiaz of Mexico, too, is surprisingly fit for his duties;\\nHe, like Augustus, is greater than consul or system.\\nThe nursery-delight in a firstman selected-by scramble\\n95", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "The world will outgrow, thus exhausting some seed of its folly,.\\nAnd the systems of rage to the systems of sense will surrender.\\nThis pious event may seem far, but so once was salvation.\\nAs it is to-day for the gay-minded sinner light-hearted\\nWho prefers the religion of pleasure to that of privation.\\nNew ideals become platitudes almost before they are printed,\\nAnd your country may pass your defence of it ere you quit shouting..\\n88.\\n.When an average amalgam is forced upon higher or lower\\nBy an agency seeming a trifle askew from God s order.\\nYou realize the ideal of unequal condition\\nAnd will pay by revolt to restore the celestial intention.\\nA generality this in a glittering uniform.\\nI desire to say something solemn and not be ungraceful.\\nThough far hence or near by, you will pay by a deep revolution\\nWhereto causes you cannot descry at the first will impel you.\\nFree will misdirected is always in search of punition.\\nOr if it be not, fumbling chance seems directed against it.\\nAnd free will with freedom to play it runs into sensation\\nTill sermons themselves grow antagonistic as battleships.\\n89.\\nThe least politics consistent with freedom the better.\\nThe tollmen on whom the world leans for prevention of anarchy\\nAre tired of way-stations that slowly anticipate chaos.\\nA deal gives the trumps to the tramps and they call it a triumph.\\nOf course they dispraise not themselves nor depreciate their winnings.\\nBut how was their party equipt for political triumph?\\nSuppose in the gamble the trumps had been dealt to the statesmen?\\nGive us chance with a fact and the devil may cherish the reason.\\nLead us astray for a while; we can wait and forgive you,\\nBecause Christ so taught us, because of the worth of experience.\\nBe great m-an if you choose; common sense is the popular genius,\\n96", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "And it smashes the shrine of New Heptarchy on the hustings,\\nThus asserting the import of earning as greater than talking.\\nAs seen in the sunbeam of safety the truth is most lustrous,\\nDate-point of the waning light of some commonwealth s lunar,\\nWhich not only resist economic suggestion from monarchy\\nBut in democratic nam.e seek to ruin democracy,\\nSetting up the man in the moon as their premier of finance.\\nOr the toys of astrologers more than the products of state-chiefs.\\nThere we find warning quite sharply defined from example;\\nThe bayonet foreshadows sometimes between sections and races,\\nOr duet of the white and black swans at the burial of hatred,\\nAs electorate may fumble with tenets and jargon of parties.\\nWhile we wait for the hymn let us hold to our own as we know it,\\nIn the way we have lived, in the way we intend to maintain it,\\nAnd then cast a glance of the pain we survive at the other.\\n90.\\nNot a pessimist litany, mine, but truth told as I find it.\\nIf that make you sad in advance of the epoch of sadness,\\nDeem it a touch of experience by anticipation,\\nSomething luckily grasped from the future to ballast the present;\\nSomething to think on just now, and later to smile at.\\nOverwise in the dark is the first to go blind when the light comes.\\nAvoid sureness like his who, not having passed electro thany,\\nWrote up that particular death as easy, and settled it.\\nBy the instant transformation of blood into charcoal.\\nLet him be thrilled into thanatos for his irony,\\nInto his grave for his sarcasm on euthanasia!\\nNot upward the levels of gravitation, remember.\\nWould to several god s that the mind senatorial could see this!\\nDid your wisdom stop short, and your country s, when you were elected?\\nAre you there for reward of the past, or for hope of the future?\\nDid your election portend the tip end of advancement,\\nOr was it rather a step of enlightened progression?\\nVirtuous, gifted, expansive up to the day you were chosen,\\n97", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "t o you selfishly fossilize in the seat of your honors,\\nDebating good laws to death in a mausoleum of emeriti?\\n91.\\nThe cranks of the state abound, and they love their symposium.\\nTheir sequents haunt the front door with a fine sense of mystery,\\nMistaking the noodles within for the gods of Walhalla,\\nPreferring a peerage with them to an Outhalla dukedom.\\nThe philosophy is so simple of such an elysium\\nThat I wonder that any Briton gives ear to their speeches.\\nBecause they are content, the rest of the world should be happy.\\nOr be made so by pow-wow of egoistic idealogue.\\nBut the sudden breath of a menace blows over some ocean\\nAnd the pasteboard paradise falls on gods, nobles and noodles.\\nI would not alarm if I could, but I tell you be ready\\nI have nothing but wide observation no theory to bolster,\\nAnd am political partisan only of winners\\nOf office for keeping to Britons their commerce and empire.\\nHypocrites watch the maturity of your errors\\nJust as one of them looked for mine, and caught me a-napping.\\nDo not err in delay, nor in failing to face a word-hurricane.\\nAll schemes will be tried for lessening your naval activity.\\nThe enforcer of manifest destiny, and the spectre\\nOf every tyrant enthroned and commercial monopolist.\\nIf what you possess were worth nothing, none would desire it.\\nYour hour will be part of the day that shall find you unready,\\nWith a tricky friend turned into foe for a trickster s advantage.\\nWaste not a dream of appealing to morals or honor.\\nTake a semi-official denial of moral intentions\\nAnd a wholly official assertion of nothing but business.\\nDoubt not, I pray. I have talked with the enemy s sachems\\nAnd find you not envied alone, but your properties coveted.\\nPretence is debated, but motives are learned in the cabinet.\\nEconomics instead of politics, freedom of commerce\\nJBecause it is largest when freest; memorize the motto.\\n9S", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "There will be no more wars unless in strict order of business,\\nPlowsoever hypocrisy may asphyxiate the motive.\\nJapan s speculation on China sets the example,\\nAnd that of France on the African island gigantic,\\nWith the ready nations only too ready to follow them;\\nIn this sense ready means relatively more ready.\\nDoes Britain wish this result at the price it will cost her?\\nIf not, be forever deaf to the statesmen symposian!\\nDid you note that my States, as they dealt with the island of Cuba,\\nCopied nothing from France v^ ith the island of Madagascar?\\n92.\\nYe who find in my long limpid line neither frolic nor flattery,\\nBut rather offence to hypocrisy of the unready.\\nLet yourselves soar and think down from the empyrean.\\nThe argonaut, even with the fleece, would seem small to the aeronaut.\\nWho sees nothing in Jason except the stiff purpose of fleecing.\\nAnd best equalizes the focus on wool, gold and politiGS.\\nThe common good is the thing; only one empire proclaims it.\\nIf the others accept, they uncover their share of the profits;\\nIf they refuse, they must cut up each other for selfishness,\\nAugmenting the debts to be paid from the waste of their efforts,\\nFrom the deserts left by the arid rage of their egoism.\\nIs manifest destiny, then, with the despot or freeman?\\nLong war between nations means civil wars at the end of it.\\nFor the ratepayers may no longer be taxed in the thousands of millions.\\nWealth does not augment in proportion to means of destroying it,\\nAnd if deputies lose their heads, contribuables will correct them.\\nThis will help to eliminate youth as the factor of folly.\\nFor if all men were fifty years old there would be no fixt armies,\\nIf all men were fifty to vote and to fight and pay pensions.\\nIn what respect was St. Petersburg worse than Chicago?\\nI am simply trying to circumvent the destroyer,\\nWhose very best demonstration was made in Chicago,\\nBecause there the circumstances seemed least to suggest it.\\n99", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he falleth.\\nNo hope in repubhc, the restless being freely admitted;\\nIt thus holds the same elements of unrest as a czardom,\\nWith more chances to crystallize restlessness into dynamite;\\nNot to-day; when the people are elbowed out of their elbow-room,\\nI mean: when the syndicates cannot employ half the hungry.\\nThe unequal distribution of what comes from freedom\\nLeaves freedom half tyrant, irrespective of politics.\\nA close corporation of lawyers governing Britain\\nNot by the law, but their twist of it, measures our freedom.\\nAnd the same prevails where Liberty shouts even loudiier\\nAnd forever spells herself with a capital letter.\\nIs this better than czar? Yes, so long as the lawyers are quiet.\\nBut woe to the kingdom and subject when they spread the law out.\\nThe tarantula web of the law with the lawyer to bite us.\\nAnd our cousin far off with perhaps more of web and tarantula.\\nThe mass cares nothing for system, but yearns for sufficient.\\nPolitical attachment is a matter of accident\\nAt first, then of pride, and later we deem it of principle.\\nAnd of thrusting on those whose sole principle is a sufiEiciency.\\nWhat is freedom? The right to prate of your slavery to money?\\nThat is a vacuum conception; rather a despot\\nWho can smash an illusive negation even though he starve me!\\nSurplus for those who kill time or do nothing works envy\\nIn those who furnish the surplus; and those who enjoy it\\nAre morally bound to do nothing excitant of envy.\\nIn the land of the equal wealth sharpens the inequality\\nUntil the unequal win over again their first triumph.\\nThe justified scheme in the end is the monarchy graded.\\nCompact in economics, non-debatable subjects\\nBeing augmented in number as Britons grow clearer, while fury\\nOf discussion and scandal political be left with the boastful.\\nAll this is the dilettante-screed of a courtier.\\nI have no plan, but am out for a little excursion.\\nAs a change, to the realm of the discontented; an empire\\nBigger even than Britain s, and not to be conquered nor governed\\n100", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "By any system yet worked in political science.\\nMy love of court-life makes me friend of the order established.\\nThe change I desire is personal and brief; am discussing-\\nLike any know-it-all between fool and philosopher.\\n93-\\nWrinkled thinker undying, thou linker of generations\\nFor all that upholds and expands and extends outside chaos,\\nFlinging the searchlight into the gloom of inertia,\\nDo not despair in the wear of a duty unending.\\nSince every tangible value begins with the thinker.\\nIf I think topics through to defeats, you may think to successes.\\nThe titan is not a god, neither wholly a mortal.\\nThe pioneer mind is midway heroic-titanic;\\nIts views belong half to its epoch, half to a future.\\nThe blood of the martyrs is ever the seed of opinion\\nThat germinates, and then of conviction that fashions.\\nThe leader s idea is likewise the seed of the fortune\\nWhich in the Autumn of Fate comes another to garner.\\nBut these truths augment not the funds, nor dimm.ish the labor\\nOf him who soweth new fields and reapeth after the gleaners.\\nThe hope of reward grows intense in proportion to vagueness,\\nAnd the Hall of the Gods is not full always room on Olympus.\\nThose who cannot die are as generous as immortal.\\nWhile with us you have only to win to turn foes into flunkeys.\\nThe achievers of deeds of renown, by the dictum of Schiller,\\nMay ascend to the seat of the gods and be sure of proud welcome.\\nAnd so full of the South and the North is the genius of Schiller\\nThat his immiortality as a guest is divided\\nBetween the hosts of Olympus and those of Walhalla,\\n94-\\nRevolutions never go back, says the thinker thoracic.\\nI wish they would always go back to the cause of the evils\\n101", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "And stay there on permanent guard to prevent their recurrence.\\nWhat other trip could they take and be half so successful?\\nIf revolution would do the work of policemen,\\nPreventing disorder instead of inflaming disturbance,\\nWe should all recommend it as outlet for popular passions.\\nIf numbers be right because numbers, set fire to your Oxfords,\\nOr to any schools newer and wiser productive of thinkers\\nWhose inspiration is not derived from pulmonics,\\nOr from baffled rage, like that of Coqcourt at new friendship;\\nHe whose race seeks the place of the Englishman as the tyrant;\\nBelting the earth with ecclesiastical dogma\\nAnd secular, and its ethnical sway; whose affiliation\\nWith others is mere affectation, a wile of its genius.\\nThe class, like the mass, is perfect in natural sequence,\\nHowsoever the gog of an epoch may seek to mislead you.\\nWhy not tell the truth that the masses exist to make classes\\nOutside the fictions and fustian of doctrinaire-stumpers?\\nV/hat else gives the chance to ascend? If born in a cellar,\\nWould yon live there forever by virtue of loving the masses?\\nI ask this because weary of epigrammatic tomfooling.\\nEven the demagogue seeks the apostolate of ascension.\\nNo matter how small he may be, when he gets a majority\\nHis minority may go to the devil if he but stay winner.\\nIs this loving your race? It is; with yourself as the head of it.\\nDo you know any statesman who seeks to go back to the cellar?\\nThe lover of his race loves to see it make fortunes\\nIn individual instances, he being the foremost;\\nMr. Croker of Manhattan explained this with glory.\\nSince it cannot do differently, what is the use of professing?\\nAny institutions inductive of false economics\\nOught to be modified; monarchic or democratic.\\nPopulist, socialist, millionist; names frighten cowards,\\nAnd suggest to brave minds in our day the prompt need of analysis.\\nAny free system is far from its logical issue.\\nMere Canute of politics staying the tide of opinion;\\nFor, though I define not his purpose, Canute is there always.\\n102", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "The class which shall perfectly govern by free constitution\\nWill be the best gift of all movements, forward or sideways,\\nAnd I leave your great mind to the office of calling that class up.\\nAnd of framing a constitution uniting all great minds.\\nBut such must be new constitution, ignoring all prior.\\nManifest destiny lays out the land; ruling parchments come later.\\n95-\\nMinorities mine, if you think of invading their strongholds.\\nThe Spaniard could do it in theory, but had not the money\\nTo practice with; let us say a good word for the vanquished.\\nI do not wish to hurt of my States the tall feelings.\\nBut the Spaniard s capacity to die for his standards.\\nOvermatched though he knew that he was, has no equal in history.\\nAnd will be lustrous there when his weaknesses all are forgotten!\\nThe only Swiss pass is mined between Gallia and Germany,\\nAnd the Swiss has declared he will spring it if enemies step there-\\nIt prevents not invasion, but tends to discourage the project.\\nWhether you undertake it by land or by water.\\nThe men on the ground can make the best use of torpedoes,\\nWhether on surface of land or sea, or below it.\\nWhile the men in the air can most easily drop devastation.\\nAnd veterans cannot be bred against annihilation.\\nThus dynamite disheartens the heartiest seaman or landman.\\nThe overwhelming of freemen will never be picnic,\\nAnd extermination by science has no moral limit,\\nScience having absorbed no soft functions while floating some hard ones.\\nEurope does not desire that Britain be stronger in Europe.\\nSome great continental ministers gave me the reasons.\\nIt would need a very fresh diplom.at to contest them;\\nOne of genius much greater than he who last lost by his genius\\nAll that he sought to attain in the Northern Pacific\\nAnd Canrobert and Macmahon later approved them;\\nNot seriatim, although full of force were their judgments.\\nTo overreach is the act of small men, not of great ones;\\n103", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "He who wins not thereat comes political bummer and blufifer.\\nYou love your country no better for roaring about it.\\nPopularity without principle will justify anything.\\nThe strait-jacket is the true fit for the patriot-ranter.\\nLet us stop war by making it so that no man can live in it\\nThat of all the millions who go to it, every man shall perish.\\nIn the States opinion favored annihilation\\nIn Cuba, but, of course, as applied to the enemy only\\nTo exterminate the foe is to shorten the conflict,\\nBut the foe has no right to annihilate the philanthropist.\\nThis is true morals and mercy, and would render superfluous\\nArmies, navies, peace-congress, and the childish sort of patriotism.\\n96.\\nA statesman is a contractor who does for his country\\nSomething new in an enterprise not yet attempted by others,\\nOr a great man of public aiifairs in routine; perchance brilliant;\\nNot a superfluous speaker nor wind-cloudy egotist.\\nBut brilliant in measures when state combinations demand it.\\nLet the rising generation evolve a new prophet\\nIf the mass is to be released from its slavery to formules!\\nPresent human intelligence is enough for its purpose\\nWhen it works as machine, but too small for the larger conceptions,\\nToo narrow and low for our sovereign immortal pretension.\\nLife, liberty and the pursuit or the shoot of the happy\\nWill be realized as soon as you shoot your false premises.\\nNo declaration is needed, but simply true premises.\\nDeclare independence on all prior such declarations.\\nEach man then could argue himself nito all the beatitudes\\nWithout aid of saints, comic editors, patriots or heroes.\\nEach would be some of these in himself, with each woman a columbine.\\nBut, lo my defect as a prophet, I cannot establish them\\n97-\\nMay a hero be vile in all else save performance heroic,\\nA fellow who makes us regret that such fellov/ is hero\\n104", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "By the chance that mantled the prior parts of his record?\\nSome affirmative instances speak and they sadden me deeply\\nAs Cincinnatus, a hero at eighty, rebukes them;\\npincinnatus, a farmer Italian and hero at eighty.\\nBorn curly his name means, although we have deemed him born titan;\\nLatin sounds not always suggest corresponding significance.\\nThe sublime of consuls; as soldier the victor of Volsci\\nWhen no other could be either trusted or tried for the duty;\\nA lover of his race with nothing to sell to it;\\nAs dictator the friend of such race without class, and the idol,\\nYet more glorified for resigning than taking the office;\\nNever professor of duty, but ever a doer;\\nThe best man in Rome who became of its worst law the victim,\\nAnd in beauty of person quite up to his stature in morals;\\nWho for fault of his son paid his riches in base confiscation,\\nAnd still vanquished disgust in its strife with his strict love of country;\\nWho retired without pension to follow the plow for a living;\\nI was told that instead of seeking a pension he spurned it;\\nAnd, recalled, saved the state after twenty-one days saturnalia.\\nAnd resumed at four score the opening of furrows of freedom;\\nAged son of a land of more heroes and martyrs than Europe,\\nAnd father forever of shining and standard example\\nWho sought nothing of fame, yet the model most famous of heroes,\\nAncient fiamen and lumen of ray still of longest projection!\\nWert thou living to-day as plow-hero near big Manahatta,\\nNot a Tammanimig would vote thee a pension or office.\\nThough there office requires not equipment nor pension a duty.\\nWhile thou wast equipt for all duty and worth any pension.\\nYet Coqcourt would explain thee away as afifecting poor virtue\\nAnd patronize thee with his unction personal and ethnic.\\nAnother appears who might have repeated the Roman;\\nHis station was equal; we hoped that the man was not lower;\\nYet he went to his grave m a glamour of glorified sorrow\\nWith a biographic stain which no splendors obfuscate.\\nLet us thank private gods we are not thus heroic and public.\\nLazare Carnot on Napoleon fills my conception\\n105", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "Of duty really heroic: yet Carnot died in exiles\\nAre the Roman and Frenchman the objects of pity and sarcasm?\\nI could make some comparisons not very flattering to moderns\\nUnless we admit that patriotism oug:ht to be .paid for,\\nBut I forbear because I dislike to be personal\\n9\\nCall the test-captain of Marcus ipsanius Agrippa\\nAt Actium; he hints at no claims, but we are all proud to see him.\\nThere were too many ships on both sides for neglect in that battle.\\nHe could not be signalled, he knew what to do, and he did it;\\nIn a crisis unlooked-for was quick and correct in his action.\\nHad he been elsewhere the day had belonged to Antonius.\\nThis was a hero who deemed his heroism mere duty.\\nThe man could not beg. and Augustus did not promote him,\\nAugustus, great in procuring great service from others.\\nSome peoples breed delicacy as to mention of service,\\nAnd their proceres* smell not a pension in warsmoke at lecNvard;\\nNor did Mpsanius, sea-pride of the Roman dominion,\\nWho, had he not won, had been some sort of victim Tarpeian,\\nAnd who for his Cfesar did more than that Caesar in empire\\nAugustus, fame-swollen when poets, not critics, were published,\\nThe purple king of the lofty minions of letters.\\nThe fav.Tiing penmen of multiform splendor imperial,.\\nFlaccus and Maro and those who imposed him on history.\\nThe captain died and left to his children the sideknife\\n\\\\Miich in an immodest hand had carved them a fortune\\nBut in their father s had car\\\\-ed for their country a triumph.\\nHad Antonius and he fought together and won. he was admiral,\\nSince Antonius was greater in nothing than fervor of friendship.\\nUnless in unfriendly pursuit of inimical gentry.\\nI am the worthless friend of the fame of that captain.\\nAnd I think maybe patriotism ought to have a cash value\\nSpanish signifying heroic characters.\\n106", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "As I ask myself: Is that a dominion worth saving\\nWliich leaves unrewarded the winning shipmaster of Actium\\nWho could not frame a request for promotion nor pension?\\n99.\\nLet me give you for contrast a little sea-story not Roman;\\nModern, unique, monumental, unknown, and immortal.\\nWhat is called nerve is called for by stress, and is useful,\\nAs at Actium we saw, and are now about to see elsewhere;\\nBut whenever you praise it remember the test of its glory\\nAnd praise God when he keeps you away from the stress that requires it.\\nI once knew a pirate who scaped his deserts on the gallows,\\nIn contumaciam condemned and a big reward offered.\\nBy staying awake from Manhattan down to Havana\\nAnd threatening the captain with death if he bouted the steamer,\\nPrescribing for Sundberg, my friend, navigation by pistol.\\nHe knew the course, and he day and night guarded the compass.\\nHe was nervy indeed, this man doomed to be hanged for his record.\\nThe Thermopylae man was a thrippenny fellow to Bowen,\\nWho alone beat a government and a crew of three hundred.\\nThis slaver, who later became a mail agent and shootist\\nAnd represented his country s worst side on an isthmus.\\nMany Britons remember him well and his pistol too ready.\\nI met him at Panama; he returnd to Manhattan\\nYears later, a famine-clipt corsair ignored by detectives.\\nWhere I blew him off several times, for which he was grateful,\\nAnd repaid me with sea-yarns fit to raise hair on bronze Julius.\\nI love to give credit for gameness even to a pirate,\\nThough deeply regretting that Bowen could jump the republic.\\nWhile avowing my fascination with quarter-deck dragon.\\nXerve is useful, I say; but God grant me more honest conditions;\\nConditions more in accord with sea-conduct at Actium.\\n100.\\nThe Augustan age: of what? Of glory and meanness.\\nLong forgotten were nephew Marcellus excepting for Maro.\\n107", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Great poets find great virtues easy for nephews of greatness.\\nAt twenty married and dead, his achievement was promise\\nIn a period conspicuous even till this day for performance.\\nHowever, in the .Eneid he makes a sweet story,\\nFor which I am paganly grateful, the bard was made richer;\\n^lore paganly thankful since Christians are treated less justly.\\nBut whv was my Captain of Actium so meanly omitted?\\nIf I knew his name I would make him a bigger jMarcellus\\nHian either of those who loom and shine high for the Romans.\\nCould Marcus Mpsanius Agrippa descend to be envious?\\nCould Octavianus Augustus deign to be whimsical?\\nAlthough old, I was not in politics at that period.\\nAnd would rather not speculate now on those royal hob-nobbers.\\nlOI.\\nProm these instances tell me what think you of thanks? Who is grateful,\\nAnd who is requited of those who deal with the patria?\\nHe who builds on past favors and luck the ideal of his merits,\\nAnd, as the proverb explains it, his hopes of the future?\\nI incline to electoral veterans who vote themselves pensions\\nAs the best requited and most successful of patriots.\\nHad I seen somewhat less than I have, I should be less suspicious.\\nThough suspicion is far from best proof of the largeness of knowledge.\\nAnd then I prefer to put queries less aggressive the form is.\\nAnd the object more easily won, than by statement dogmatic.\\nI once saw a man washed over the rail in a seaway.\\nA thousand pounds to the sailor who saves me from drowning,\\nHe shouted; Bob Halfyard jumped into the sea swift to rescue,\\nIgnoring reward, and hauled him on deck by the collar,\\nWliere this thousand-pound man straightway thanked himself free with a\\nfiver.\\nThus gratitude goes by dry measure, and prom/se by fluid.\\nBut Bob was well pleased, and, indeed, would have been with no measure;\\nTliough the distance from five to a thousand is out of all measure.\\nBut if gratitude show between nations, the same will surprise me.\\nlOS", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Coqcourt says that Great Britain patronized somebody lately.\\nThis will call, of course, not for gratitude, but resentment.\\nThough tis merely a wile of his race and his personal genius.\\nObligation is hard to admit, but resentment comes easy.\\nAnd is the most dignified thing in the dealings of nations.\\nI admire natural bigness; it saves us the trouble which smallness\\nInflicts in compelling the undersized self-assertion.\\nResources more than readiness set the world thinking.\\nThe German Empire is ready; my States are unready;\\nAlthough General Shafter would probably say to the Germans\\nThat they had no right to fight, as he said to Toral at Santiago\\nWith no lack of respect for Shafter, this was Falstaffian.\\nBut in the long tug the States would be ready and richer.\\nThe last man conscripted, last cartridge in breech of last rifle.\\nThe last franc expended, how do you stand as to resource?\\nBut the sword of Cassius Marcellus, the fist of Fitzsimmons\\nNeed not be swung; you take it all back when you see them.\\nTaxability more than big guns is the fear of the nations;\\nThe power to impose and collect is the theme of reflection.\\n102.\\nA chump and a hero when dead are the same to their country,\\nBut the hero did something deemed a distinctive example.\\nThough he may have been ten times a chump outside his example,.\\nAs a has-been he is embalmed to inspire future whoopers.\\nAll countries produce them and play them off one gainst another,\\nAnd that, with the sacred flag buncombe, breeds up other heroes,\\nAs Eagleshriek, Katkofif, Deroulede, Lionroar, Novisto,\\nAnd debt, death and taxes and pensions to pay for the triumph.\\nAnd thus labor pays to make heroes and wealthy contractors.\\nCommissions, investigations, courts-martial and glory.\\nBetter be taxed for court-royal with jester attachment.\\nOr set the clown up as the king with a fun-constitution.\\nHow long, O Lord, how long shall thy children charge bayonets?\\nMust they ride through another old testament of dull vices,\\n109", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "Thereon to arrive at a new testamentary promise?\\nIs patriotism even a greater satire than conscience?\\nNot necessarily that which is aged is sacred;\\nThose under its rule may have been too weak to renounce it,\\nThe weak millions oppressing the single strong wills through the cycles,\\nThe strong wills deficient in nothing but numbers and muscles,\\nWhile the cardinal bandmasters fascinated the faithful;\\nOr rich vestrymen giving the heads of discourse to the parson.\\nThese things are all right; but something more right might replace them.\\nI believe in emancipation, but first in a substitute\\nFor the good as well as the bad of the system discarded,\\nBe the same pagan or not. The chief good of religion\\nIs that some men and more women are able to draw from it\\nA negative beauty and benefit, whereof the absence\\nWould leave th^cn less happy, less brave, and less fit to be trusted.\\nThis alone would sufficiently justify any religion;\\nBut God send us another whose life shall be wholy affirmative\\nIn the activities as well as the prayers of professors.\\n103.\\nThe Cambrian, Caledonian, Hibernian have done noble service\\nAround the globe; but others are not less in service;\\nAnd all, for defence and offence and mistakes, the Queen s subjects.\\nBut you men not of Wales, nor of Scotland, nor Ireland, but England,\\nDo not forget that your basis of empire is English\\nNot that England is better, but larger, more suited to centre;\\nMore homogeneous as to both centre and numbers\\nThat the others helped grandly to build on the basis of England,\\nAdopting the tongue, its pervasiveness, usefulness, glories;\\nAnd that if you should set one not English up as its Premier,\\nPerfectly loyal, let it be granted him, only not English,\\nWho might gamble England as well as the others to smash it.\\nIn loyalty all, but still in gigantic niisjudgment.\\nIn hatred unaffected of possible bloodguilt.\\nAnd in access of that sort of conscience which let Gordon perish,\\n110", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "The fault would be not of the Scol, nor the Welsh, nor the Celto,\\nBut of you, ye goad-kicking EngUshmen, mulish and fatuous.\\nSome names are ballooned, and stay up by the gas of orations.\\nLet not high name blow you low to the system of wigwam!\\nEven Manhattan absorbs, sloughing tribesmen and wigwam.\\nThe big town whose imported statesmen preach our disunion\\nConsolidates over the heads of these freaks of disruption.\\nIn the three kingdoms the English alone are non-tribal.\\nLet nobody tear his hair at this fact; nature willed it.\\nAs among Italian tribes she willed Romans non-tribal.\\nLarger, more homogeneous, more central, more numerous.\\nLike Japan, better fitted for sabre-glint civilization.\\nDo not get red in the face, neither sprain your thoracics;\\nPerchance civilization has failed, and tribe-life shall supplant it\\nWith some Sitting Bull as a later leader of progress.\\nSilver Bryan, or Brian Boru, around pot-au-feu dancing\\nWith shillelagh as primitive symbol of ruling uncomplex\\nResurrected, with friends in cotilion; so showing example\\nOf life democratic by royal decree for the faithful.\\nFreedom-shouting, while seeking the Englishman s place in dominion.\\nBut without open door in trade, politics and religion.\\n104.\\nKeep your flag as a symbol imperial; not as a gewgaw\\nTo decorate up to significance things low and trivial.\\nLet it be never a ribbon, but always an emblem\\nDenoting a purpose inflexible, sacred, invincible,\\nNot to be idly affirmed, and still less idly yielded.\\nAmong many things of God s meaning, one is authority,\\nIn which he seems not to design that the Briton be second.\\nPlant the flag with care, but keep it there with solicitude.\\nSuspend not him who shall hold to the law of the neutral.\\nExtol not him whose folly demands his dismissal.\\nVeteran statesmen rave not about turpitude among nations;\\nThey define it in other terms, but rather expect it.\\nIll", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "Old freshmen new to state dignities are the fellows\\nWho put up the rigs and pretend to be shocked at resentment.\\nLeave a point to suggestion; what else is so flat as exha-ustion?\\nThe world loveth only to laugh at Columbus of mare s nest.\\nTrip luckily on a silver spur in the underbrush\\nAnd then suddenly loom as the finance brain of a forum,\\nBy ironic nerve of aiiinity intellectual.\\nIf there be sermons in stones there are yarns in stone silver.\\nAnd the legislative mine-owners know how to spin them.\\nI put this fact into the history of this period.\\nThere are schemes which would not be heard of unless for the affinity\\nWhereby the toe suggests to the mind of the finder\\nThat the foot as well as the head may touch off an idea.\\nThe poor man s interest consists in electing the millionaire,\\nWhether the choice be the poor man s or that of his Plutus.\\nHe who has not made his pile is not fit to make statutes;\\nSo told me my private Lothair, who could not imagine\\nThe man of the pile making laws against him of no pile.\\nRiches soften the heart in the estimation of Pluti;\\nDo not exceptions like Salt, Alills and Peabody prove it?\\nPoor men legislating for poor men have failed to enrich them.\\nThe centuries are overladen with proofs of this verity.\\nXow let rich men make laws for all men, and see who will go winners!\\n104^.\\nConformably with both union and manifest destiny,\\nAnd as prepotent sign of political zodiac\\nAmong continents, oceans and nations, let the republic\\nConstellate into one giant star those stars individual\\nWhich in tlie uniting field of the flag denote empire\\nOf many sovereign commonwealths whose sovereignty\\nWas absorbed to make a monarchy of democracy\\nSo far as its foreign relations go. which go everywhere.\\nThis would give to the flag greater beauty, and much more significance\\nAs to the inescapable dominance of manifest destiny,\\n112", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "And more pointed, of course, because every star is five-pointed.\\nMultiply the points, Mighty Congress, and lawniake to fit them\\nFor this greater beauty of banner, and the strength of intention\\nTo swing out from the prepaternal impositions of purpose\\nWhich were very good to begin with, but are no good to end with.\\n105.\\nI wish to ask something concerning the palate and ethics,\\nYet not to hurt any man s taste nor to injure his commerce.\\nVv hy should we hold the wine-merchant a species of fetich.\\nThe sphynx of the bottle, the artifex of potation?\\nIs it due to inherited dream of the glory of drinking\\nThe fluescent fun of some regions more sunny than Britain?\\nImagination is active in ratio to absence\\nOf the things imagined and wanted; and as to the cave-dwellers\\nThe sunbeams are, so to us 4s the juice of the sun-grape.\\nSince the sun puts both flavor and force in the fruit of his favor,\\nAnd we thus get some sun which is otherwise partly denied us.\\nA roundabout way to account for our love of the stimulant!\\nBut the sun s side of wine is not that of the gentry who sell it.\\nXative men in sun-regions are sparing in use of the best of it.\\nThere is nothing in wine, any wine, excepting the alcohol.\\nThe juice unfermented I know; there is nothing more funless.\\nTake the alcohol out, no one cares for bouquet nor for savor,\\nAnd alcohol grows in the cactus as well as the grapevine;\\nSo I found by liquescent run of the cactus in Mexico;\\nAnd he who goes short of Yquem may go long yet of pulque.\\nDo we thus worship wine for its gout and intoxication,\\nFlavored, colored and labeled to suit with mere alcohol basis?\\nThen your fetich is, after all, but a limited chemist.\\nNow who will wax eloquent in defence of this chemist\\nWho alcoholizes the tongue and the pen which defend him,\\nThe father of gout, the long pride and the joy of old statesmen.\\nU3", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "io6.\\nThe music of nature is minor, but I like it major,\\nOr did, till a Chinaman gave me some novel ideas.\\nWhy is it minor? Is sadness organic in nature,\\nAnd is art by the devil forced to be gleeful and major?\\nMaybe yet we do not correctly interpret the devil.\\nLove of music is weakness expressive of slow evolution,\\nMere worship of sound, of the power which is most evanescent,\\nThe mock-joss of a moment, expired ere its worship is ended.\\nGliding even unseen from the faithful kneeling to nothing;\\nLeaving them, thus to say, as adorers posing in ridicule.\\nSo told me Mandarin, Pynq Bhuttun, a Prince of Manchuria.\\nWu-Ying-Ding do I sing hard to bring in the ring of my verse-fling.\\nWe took a world s fair and two weeks for our little diversion.\\nDiscussing battleships, arts, ballots, bullets and ballets,\\nScience, biography, lies, legends, music and silence,\\nAnd the prince deemed the last most becoming the larger number,\\nSarcastic and cynical he as a peer of the Occident,\\nNo Frenchman could reach him in persiflage upon Europe.\\nThe richest man I have known: forty millions of guineas.\\nAnd more free in expending than even the author of Vathek.\\nBeyond all men a scion of luck was this scion of Asia,\\nAnd as gentleman not the inferior of any in England.\\nHe was happy and young; death seemed not created to touch him.\\nMy regal Manchurian; as classic of type as Apollo,\\nBut not of Greek mold; there is beauty by eastward of Hellas;\\nNor was he born to grow old, and his smile was organic,\\nAn Eos of pensiveness sequent on every emotion\\nOf mine orient Tithonus of the gift unforgotten.\\nHis sleep was as deep as the absence of care in his being,\\nYet no depth of repose could eliminate it from his features,\\nAnd his words were of worlds full of everything but the painful\\nUnless when he spoke of the spooks that fill this with displeasures.\\nI might not have doubted, though recently only I learned it.\\nThat the fool is a finer buffoon in the halls of Manchuria\\n114", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "While my practice has been so to lean as to themes beatific,\\nStill his joy was so absolute that it made me quite serious;\\nAnd my monograph on the mirthful refilled him with wonder\\nAs he strove to descend to the level of what I deemed cheerful;\\nWhich filled me with pride in my friend as new wit and new critic.\\nHis inheritance came from a period prior to Confucius\\nAnd from collateral millionaires all over China.\\nHe was easy in wealth as distinguished from Midas in metal,\\nHigh mind and high fate being naturally part of each other.\\nNot of one in a million with million can this be said justly,\\nBut no trait of Occident corporate president seared him,\\nNo terror supplying from bank-note the mandates of Moses,\\nNor by wealth-written statutes making of wealth a new Bible.\\nWhy does no gifted Chinaman deign to explain us his country?\\nIs it due to his scorn of our hypocritic pretensions.\\nOr to a pride that might set an example to Satan?\\nOr does he, like Li Hung Chang, praise all faiths, having no faith?\\nA book by my prince would sell by the hundred thousand.\\nBut he loftily sneered as I tried to persuade him to write one,\\nCommenting that books in his country are not things ephemeral.\\nBut let me resume his petit resume about music.\\nI am sorry I never evolved at the pace of his highness.\\nNot far from my window in Summerhouse Circus in London\\nA great-granddaughter lives who is learning to thrum the piano.\\nI love the sweet girl with the pride of a fanciful dotard.\\nThough tis but in mine eye and mine age that I find the relation,\\nSince I merely bow as we meet to her father and mother.\\nShe is always in town for the season, and then takes her lessons,\\nAnd her lesson-days are those when all windows are open.\\nHer voice is seraphic; why does she not sing and stop thrumming?\\nIf her father were not so clever and quick I should ask him.\\nAnd yet any process of sound-study maddens a region,\\nTransforms a popular girl, makes a guy of a goddess.\\nChina is large, but not large enough for Dick Wagner.\\nSo it saddens my soul to confess that the outside barbarians\\nDo not rise to the ethnical level of him of Manchuria.\\nlis", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "107-\\nWherefore fight against orient open door, Mr. Coqcourt?\\nIndeed, one might ask why a people permits you to fight there?\\nMy Manchu noble bespoke it ere Britain proposed it.\\nHe was tariff-for-revenue-only, all doors being open;\\nThat was his deep, wide and wise economic conviction.\\nIf you do not care to go in, is it selfish that I go?\\nOr if others would go, is your wish to stand still a sound reason\\nWhy they should stay out to their loss and let somebody shut it?\\nRebellion within the Three Kingdoms is not in this question,\\nNor shall it be raised in One by an open-door issue.\\nAll free peoples with livings to earn are aboard with Great Britain,,\\nFirst among them the people with whom you took citizen-ticket;\\nBut of course not the few whose fortunes depend on misleading.\\nDo not labor to make a gratuitous case as a lawyer,\\nSince lav/ is not here involved, but a principle mighty\\nEvolving new law, wheretD you may adjust your grand genius,\\nGrand as practician political outside the verities.\\nTo v.-in, you attribute false motives; but you will be beaten,\\nAnd your faction, although with fine feelings none of you quiver.\\nI simply note that you fly in the face of two peoples.\\nBesides, in your country you are but alien as patriot.\\nSolidarity of one race against all is your principle;\\nSolidarity of one race gainst the rest in your country.\\nAre you vain enough to presume that the rest will surrender?\\nBut open door will lapse into spheres of in-flooence.\\nio8.\\nThere is too much esteem in the world for the stuff merely literary.\\nOther sinner is not quite so sinful as author professional.\\nBooks merely as books are less useful than trousers as trousers^\\nHis principal good is in setting up jobs for the typos,\\nWho would gladly set up superior stuff could they find it,\\n116", "height": "2736", "width": "2085", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "Though they must earn pay, if only by waiting for copy.\\nAn author should write as a populist speaks, when moved to it;\\nWhen he must speak or die; die as martyr to inspiration,\\nOr of apoplexy resulting from bottled emotion.\\nBesides, books so written, like speeches so spouted, take better.\\nSo that sincerity, or more properly bluntness, is higher\\nIn strict market price than indifference or diplomacy\\nWell dressed as to literary form and in binding luxurious.\\nAlthough I am moved to these stanzas for human approval,\\nI do not in all instances expect to attain it.\\nBut he whose first element is largeness of purpose\\nAnd who can see sarcasm sanctified to ideals.\\nWill give me the slap of approval and hope for me others.\\nIf by incidence money come too, I shall gather that likewise.\\nDo not hurry in reading this book I did not in printing it.\\n109.\\nTo catch comprehension, the first need of statement is clearness,\\nUnless you be genius enough to substitute mystery,\\nAnd best liked of all the clear forms is that of the epigram.\\nEither science or whatever else might attack the tympanies,\\nCould I have my way, should be stated in epigram simple,\\nOr in series of sentences every one epigrammatic.\\nIf it cannot be sprung on the mind in that form, it is no gram.\\nYet produce not a Frankenstein book, for that eats up the author.\\nYou are literate enough when you write with ease and precision\\nAnd devote your spare time to the few works not areas of mind-waste.\\nThe milliner of words is a poor feeble fellow\\nWho should have been girl and written society novels.\\nThe book of industrial success is the manual for nations,\\nThe material Bible whereon to build up the moral\\nBut all the prophets alive seem unable to write it,\\nThe book which should make us irremovably equal\\nAnd happy, abolishing millionaires, strikers and paupers,\\nWalking delegates. Sitting Bulls, and mock and moth chieftains,\\n117", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "All classes and persons who could object to each other;\\nThus reaching the thousandth year by suppressing cross purposes.\\nSo eliminating the cause and the curse of transgression.\\nNot always are natural powers brought forth by high grammars.\\nYour college-man s greatness is commonly lost in the learning\\nThat in him takes the place of the evolution of nature\\nWhich curricula are only designed to develop.\\nInspiration i s affectation and genius is humbug\\nWhen author and publisher grovel in greed of the guinea.\\nMy publisher and I are both free from small vices.\\nYet such parties make literature thus, and the world is made wiser\\nFrom a horn of plenty of words for a few dozen shillings.\\nThey supply a demand without raising the grade of the market;\\nThat is the very worst mare s nest I ever discovered.\\nIf the men who make history could write it, the lessons were clearer\\nAnd stronger, but life is too brief for the two occupations.\\nThe insular and Peninsular Napier confirms me,\\nAnd Julius the commentator; but they are exceptions.\\nThus, though the exemplars are strong, the teachers are feeble\\nTill the chronicler shall be as strong as the doer.\\nIf you cannot win Austerlitz, overrate him who did win it:\\nOmit estimating inferior foe s drill and commanders\\nUnless to count these defects part of his genius who beat them.\\nWrite as though you were making him great, like Thiers in his Consulate,\\nAnd later, like Thiers, you may sit in the seat of the Consul.\\nUse blind admiration for library-points in his greatness\\nWhom you have not understood, and make no allowance\\nFor the vogue into which he slipped from three thousand conditions.\\nAnd be careful to see nothing great in the man who subdued him.\\nIf you cannot win battles, you may jabber of him who won many.\\nTill a moth s reputation expand with the fame of the giant.\\nThe size and sweep of the thought are the matters impressive\\nAnd compel their own symmetry and sufficiency of expression.\\nBear in mind that your mind must be big enough for the subject.\\nYou may not be partial at first to the thought or its treatment,\\nBut improve your gifts, though there be little joy in the labor.\\n118", "height": "2771", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "Michael Angelo lacked the polish he put in his art-works,\\nYet they shine with the merits as dear to the small as the great minds.\\nVast and lucid conceptions force into form their own character.\\nIIO.\\nI may not decide Allighieri greater than MicLael,\\nThough to write the Commedia was harder than cutting out Moses.\\nI am not seeking to get up a fight about greatness,\\nThough I care not if such succeed; we shall each have our partisans.\\nTo formulate thought is a finer process than sculping,\\nInvolving less of the chance mixt with impulse called genius,\\nWhile we do not forget that of thought sculpture also is formful.\\nIf expression be larger with words, so the task of achieving.\\nLanguage exacts more than stone, the pen more than the chisel.\\nThis settles nothing, but suggests settling something by fighting.\\nIf it be not clear, perchance it is chiaro oscuro.\\nAnd so may procure me some little repute as a critic.\\nHe who settles anything is not deemed a critic.\\nBut rather Columbus of Guanahani for the doubtful.\\nLet Italia say, if she can, whose renown is the dearer.\\nIll\\nYour strict man of letters is mainly a puffer of letters,\\nSeedily crazed with his craft and with print-panaceas,\\nA secular priest of the inspiration sympo sian.\\nLike the sacerdote, wholly in favor of keeping his church up;\\nEach man his own church, yet an aggregate church on the people\\nBy all of them quartered in monthlies and weeklies and dailies.\\nFor the making of all men happy, and always by letters.\\nNo two sacerdotes, no two worldly-wise Cadmi agreeing.\\nOne writes a book that finds a big vogue, though its merits\\nMight justify either a bigger vogue or a lesser.\\nTis the luck of the vogue wherewith I de sire to impress you.\\nThen he finds the great head and makes introspection a study,\\n119", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "After which he devotes his career to developing ego,\\nAnd all literature is straightway enriched by this product.\\nYet with thousands of tons of books and millions of flysheels\\nWhirring widi practical wisdom, the curse of transgression\\nSeems no lighter nor likeher to fly nor be flown than it once was.\\nYea. this age. most belettered of all, is the age of the Anarch,\\nOf the dynamite-keg rolled into the Sundayschool circle,\\nOr into the operahouse, talkinghouse or cathedral.\\nAnd no other age. I proclaim, so infected with wisdom,\\nNo era since Plato so thickly infested with letters\\nBy sacerdotes and by secular priests of symposium\\nWho prate of our sorrows, suggesting no means that relieves them,\\nPrecisely as I prate to-day of the lack of suggestion.\\nThese lines refer to some men who came statesmen from letters,\\nAnd the argT.mient is to revert to those not men of letters,\\nXot essayists of symposium to carry Our Empire,\\nNot rhetoricians who foster a hostile alliance.\\n\\\\Miose piety seems to invoke our commercial destruction,\\nBut to revert to those who see ^i^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2als and pass them,\\nXo matter what be the cause, so they grasp not our profit.\\nThe Briton is forced to be Tory by site geographic\\nAnd by appetites which Exeter Hall cannot satisfy;\\nPantheon of theists gone blind with the rage of reforming,\\nalhalla of bards who foresee the redemption intangible,\\nho would wreck empire to save up a phrase from Utopia.\\nThese lofty abstractions result in despair at the concrete.\\nThe bard is a lovely boy with the gift of delusion.\\nAs, since I began this book, Tolstoi calls the patriot;\\nDear and deep old Tolstoi; so delighted to find you are with me!\\nithout naming these poets I love them, vet pray you beware of them,\\nThese vagarists of printsheets who flatter themselves they are statesmen.\\nBut scarce to be blamed, since what else is so sweet as illusion!\\n112.\\nThe Golden Age? A sweet snare; but what age would dismiss it?\\nAn ancient dream older than Golden Fleece is the title,\\n120", "height": "2771", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "With the era itself best described in Torquato s Aminta,\\nIt seems; and it seems further ofif than when Tasso described it;\\nAn Age Tra-la-la full of sweetness and light and no evil.\\nWhere the will was the law and no will was inspired by the devil.\\nThey might do all they chose, and they did all they pleased, and no trouble.\\nBut should it arrive in my time 1 should burn up this cadence,\\nExhorting impersonal egoists to do likewise,\\nAnd sing anew of the vision of Tasso and talkmills.\\nTo magnify speeches eternal in councils and vestries,\\nTo facilitate preparation of Premiers by thousands,\\nAnd to poise the age of gold on the pillars of rhetoric\\nTill Torquato s bright dream should seem merely pavilion of thunder.\\nBut till science shall set us free of imported food-products,\\nFrom apparent nothing evolved like the motor of Keely,\\nI insist on alliance of Exeter Hall with the sailors.\\nWhich will insure our whole people enough food to live on,\\nTo defend the ideal although we may never attain it,\\nLa bella eta dell oro ancora lontano.\\nMr. Butler of Rome called Tiziano a shover of putty\\nAnd in the same breath ranked him up with the greatest of painters.\\nGeorge at Rome shoved the putty himself and was not disrespectful;\\nA gifted man may not be judged by the common conditions.\\nYet some, second only to Titian, are tramps to their trousers.\\nWhy is this thus? I am weary of digging for reasons.\\nArt, as a fact, is the mistress of tramps mtellectual.\\nBut not of the kindred of George and Vernet and Giorgione,\\nI do not aver she is false, nor her followers unfaithful.\\nBut she does not insure the result that should tally with effort;\\nYet in freak she might rate a Lebrun by the side of Murillo\\nAnd leave George to distribute his time between painting and cheese-vats.\\nThis is not right, though my friend does not need any favors.\\nIf a canvas go slow, a few tons of cheese bring an income.\\nBut some fellow not gifted like George should attend to the cheese-vats.\\n121", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "Thus whether a whim or a fraud on the sons of devotion,\\nOr sarcastic priestess of chisel, brush, marble and putty,\\nArt ought to average better reward to her votaries.\\n114.\\nEmploy not the language of Mars as the phrases of Hermes;\\nIt is apt to defeat the presumpiive end of your statesman,\\nUnless between lines he may wish }ou to look for his meaning.\\nPermit not tribunal sublime to evade a decision\\nWith a compliment that is irony on its courage.\\nUnless it be duty judicial to save politicians.\\nEverything must be held by right and nothing by privilege.\\nIf you will be so generous as to allow it.\\nBritain is where she is for the good of all peoples.\\nIf you will belay your trumpets and drums while I say so,\\nAnd request your drum-major to let you reflect in due silence,\\nNot to flourish his wind-wand gigantic till you be through thinkings\\nYet peace is besotted with thought and to no satisfaction.\\nNevertheless, what I first see in war is more taxes.\\nAnd dead heroes who failed to run oflf do not pay these with glory,\\nWhile some who succeeded in running away may draw pensions.\\nOn the basis of things as they are in this day of peace dominant\\nExcept where it does not prevail, I meekly propose you\\nThe reciprocal guarantee of all national possessions.\\nAnd the observance obligatory of treaties,\\nSave such as some of you may find profit in breaking.\\nLet the Czar warrant China intact for the good of all nations,\\nWhile all empires warrant his warrant and his and their empires!.\\nThis would surpass a peace-congress and leave it superfluous.\\nAnd would blockade in their caverns the sons of the boucans,\\nOr offer their patriotism a chance at renewing\\nThe commercial acquisitions which used to distinguish them,\\nProvided all congresses fail to agree about empire.\\nWhat are Cabinets if not organized sons of the boucans,\\nBut lacking the fascination and dash of the protos?\\n122", "height": "2771", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "Distinct from encroacher, there must be an easy leader.\\nI am warbling now of a sphere among civilized races.\\nThere must be among nations an open-door leader with followers.\\nThis duty is natural to Britain, though France may deny it.\\nYet France will at last see no trustworthy ally but Britain.\\nYou have only one chance to be great: tis to rescue the epochs\\nFrom the childish dirt, debt, crime and suffering that go to make glory.\\nTo sustain them would be to saturate the future with sadness.\\nWherefrom half a dozen redemptions could not redeem it.\\n115-\\nI propose incorporating the Twentieth Century\\nWith everything that the earth can produce in that period,\\nToo numerous to catalogue, surely, but nothing omitted.\\nThis is a blanket company of largest dimension\\nFor administering all that is corporate or inchoate,\\nNo matter what nor where, with theatres and churches\\nAnnexed to relieve the strain with amusement and solace.\\nI annex a condition: I must be Pope of the Total\\nWith fifty-one per cent, of the capital issued.\\nMy price is small in view of my size of idea.\\nAs well as the brass it contains, though this last is no greater\\nThan that of some men to-day paid in annual millions.\\nFeudal millionaires in Columbia; feudal barons in Europe;\\nFree people and peoples unfree, each equal in genuflexion;\\nCall each other hard names if you like; this is all there is in it.\\nBut may be the Twentieth Century will throw out my project.\\nUndividended Columbians perhaps will first turn on it.\\nii6.\\nPresent statesmanship should anticipate that of the future.\\nWhose wealth can easily pay to the present a discount.\\nSince true statesmanship would employ it to double the interest,\\nNot misuse it so as to make future borrow from future\\n123", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "Ami thus niorti; ago the cycles to come to the day of the dooincrack.\\nBut however you liuance this plan, keep this side of the doonicrack,\\nSo to give my Company its chance on the Twentieth Century.\\nTrade is free with us. and we air no presumptive protection.\\nWe do not transfer Mr. Canning s doctrine to Asia.\\nThere is room enough in Asia for every one, said Beaconsfield.\\nThe Philippine capture illustrates this to perfection\\nAnd is one of the providential strokes of the era.\\nAny nation may hire a coaling station in Asia,\\nOr annex a port, if it can, like Japan, there or elsewhere.\\nManifest destiny, like freedom, must take out a license,\\nOr become licentious and so give offence universal.\\nFresh fields and pastures new were the luck of democracy;\\nThey gave it a vogue; but wait till those fields be short-nibbled!\\nI would rather perceive the things of to-day than to-morrow,\\nSince they profit me more. I care naught for the honors of seerage,\\nBut would like to remark not to Britain alone, but to Europe,\\nThat my States foreign politics grow fat on short commons\\nFor other nations not fat upon other conditions.\\nThat which can grow fat by itself will not be molestea.\\nIn this there is no offence to the States, for they know it\\nAnd the sooner Europe quit fooling with primal conditions\\nAnd stop minuet diplomatic on premise affected,\\nThe earlier each side will correctly construe independence.\\nRefusal of supply works the same result everywhere.\\nWhether in Parliament or in the beef and wheat markets,\\nAnd Britons would rather not volunteer by the million\\nTo fight for raw food if they can annex other sources\\nThe sole people that must so volunteer if they cannot^\\nWhether annexation shall be commercial or other.\\nPolitician would not admit this, I make it a crusade\\nIn order that politicians be forced to adopt it.\\nAnd let the results take care of themselves, my Lord Marquis!\\non have done some very great things but no man can win always.\\nKaiser William and President Cleveland illustrate my principle,\\nSimultaneously striking in British Guiana and Africa.\\n124", "height": "2771", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "1 1/.\\nI am a very strong navy-man for two reasons,\\nSo long as foreign cordial intent shows in arming.\\nThe more numerous our ships, the less likely our friend to attack us.\\nThen, if he assault, we shall be the more likely to lick him.\\nMoreover, if once we get down, we shall not be let up again.\\nThat is perhaps the least comic remark of my comedy.\\nAnd the .States would be circumscribed, too, with Great Britain in limbo.\\nThe two can do anything; neither alone can do everything.\\nNot even the things best in common mterest of nations.\\nThe torpedo-boat game is a very deep game; we have seen it,\\nThough shallov/ the waters may be that promote its successes.\\nAnd water-m.ines; these might be very effective against us.\\nBut an earthquake would ruin the gain? Will you bet on the earthquake?\\nAll Britons see this; but the moral grandeur of England,\\nWhich contracts m.e the diaphragm, makes asses of some o them.\\nThis moral grandeur is just what our enemies bet on;\\nThey pretend to none, but are very efficient with armies.\\nTyndal was no politician; a statesman was Tyndal\\nWho foresaw the menace and dared to be true to conviction\\nDerived from those instants of light vv hereby one sees more clearly\\nThan another, yet cannot tell why, neither why you deny it.\\nMay it not be too late when we come to believe in his wisdom\\nPlenty of army and navy and money will save us\\nPromptly and fearlessly used in proportion to danger.\\nWithout these vn/c are beaten with dignity am.id laughter.\\nWe carried ourselves with the highest caste, the foe tells us,\\nThe foe being any alert political foreigner.\\nBut as winner he smiles, bows us out, and opens a bottle.\\nii8.\\nSome one recently patronized Britons by putting persistence\\nAnd pluck in advance of the militant grasp of positions.\\nThe grasp and activity which make soldierly genius,\\n125", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "As the British winning quahties. Let us examine this\\nIn five centuries or so, we gifted to fame as great Generals\\nEdward the First, and the Third, the Black Prince, the Fifth Henry,\\nStrafford in posse, Cromwell, Marlborough, Clive, Wellington,\\nAll conspicuous in the front rank. Within the same period\\nWho else, of the equally great, has produced equal number?\\nNapoleon said that Turenne is the greatest French soldier;\\nHis tone is imperial; such are the nine I have mentioned!\\nWith Lord Clive, I am astonished at our moderation\\nIn not patronizing those who so flippantly judge us,\\nSince Turenne is no greater than any one of my Britons.\\nThis brief canto is not intended as brag, but correction\\nNot to spatter with praise our great fieldmen, but still not to stint it.\\nLet Our Empire enlarged give this order correlative chances\\n119.\\nIf you and I could own every pound on the planet,\\nWith our fellow-creatures jammed in starvation and slavery,\\nWhat a lone and imperial eminence we should occupy!\\nYet the modern methods, so dubbed, tend direct to this status.\\nYou may have it alone if you wish, for I could not be happy.\\nNeither deem myself really w^ealthy, in such situation.\\nMy Twentieth Century Syndicate motives are altruist.\\nBy what right should I be almoner? By the same whereby you grasp every\\nthing!\\nThere is more in mere mind than is called to accumulate fortune;\\nMore even than great mind is called to make up the great human;\\nFrancis Bacon and Daniel Webster step up to illustrate.\\nThere is more in a man than the man, as George Bancroft expressed it;\\nBut the more is latent; the other victoriously sordid.\\nMy main Syndicate purpose is to develop this latent.\\nWe need solvent concerns to earn interest for shareholding widows\\nFor, my friend with this book, if these widows must marry for living,\\nYou and I could take only two, if we cared to be happy.\\nBut let us keep our heads till I get up my Syndicate,\\n126", "height": "2771", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Which will absorb the results of the Russian peace-congress,\\nAnd wherein every one will find chance, of course Britain the biggest.\\nAnd big pick we shall have with the widows, all crazy to marry us\\nFor the double advantage of syndicate honors and dividends,\\nSince no duke is so big as the man who shall make this successful.\\nWhile his coadjutors pace proudly his level.\\nIt is not our duty to efface any part of Our Empire\\nFor the peace and safety of friends bearing menace gratuitous.\\nLet them take the chip-shoulderstraps ofT and take on the chances,\\nLike France, with five possible foes to watch on her limits.\\nThe States may remodel the world by initiative moral.\\nIf so, they will need moral aid, and we must be ready.\\n120.\\nHere is a wholly new story of patriotic Hellenic.\\nThere was always for me, in things Grecian, a vein of the comic;\\nBut this annal eclipses the fun-pride of all later eras.\\nAnd has very strong claims to attention of seekers of office.\\nKing of Crete was Minos, and judge of Elysium and Tartarus.\\nPresent king and a judge of the future, he ought to be truthful.\\nBut he traded in bulls with intention of cheating Poseidon,\\nAnd was caught in the act, and his misapplied bull driven to madness.\\nWhile the other was slain; losing two bulls by being dishonest;\\nWho conquered King Nisus by captivating his daughter.\\nShe unfilially clipping the purple life-tress from the parent;\\nMinos, famous in cattleyard yarns as the owner of ]\\\\Iinotaur,\\nWho troubled his majesty somewhat as stepson and half breed;\\nInsidious worker for all it was worth of the labyrinth,\\nThe earliest political machine, if not the most devioiis;\\nLeast known, though he should be best known, as the master of Talos,\\nA brass man, supposed to have been presented by Vulcan,\\nSince tis hard to imagine who else in that age could have made him,\\nSome of his traits being submissive and others volcanic,\\nVulcan known to be both, at least in affairs matrimonial.\\nWhat could be done with a man made of vivified armor\\n127", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "And proof against sword, bludgeon, catapult, arrow and burning?\\nHis purpose was that of patrolling this Cretan isle royal.\\nHe was efficient indeed; thrice a day he marched round it.\\nA single sentry as good as an army was Talos.\\nA people of pretexts the Greeks, ever prompt at dissension,\\nCrete a coveted land then as now, and Minos unlovely\\nAnd quick at provoking a quarrel as Beneks Ofeeshow,\\nOnce a Thousand-Nights statesman some thousands of miles from Arabia,\\nWho, as natural result, found semblables prone to oblige him.\\nBut Talos, this army of one man, was very efficient.\\nHe challenged a friend as a foe till he knew he was friendly,\\nAnd little he cared for affirmative proof of the friendship,\\nAnd brief was the time he permitted to prove the intention.\\nAll comers were treated alike as they stepped on the beach there.\\nAll were warm/iy received without waiting for notice of errand;\\nFor when he espied the approach of prospective encroachers\\nHe lighted a fire and heated himself to the red point\\nAnd then went to the shore to salute the presumptive invaders,\\nWhom he embraced, inattentive to story of object,\\nOvercoming them equally thus in the heat of his greeting.\\nHow many the kings who have prayed to be spared their friends kindness?\\nWhat king ere was saved from all friends and all foes except Minos?\\nWhat statesman or sentinel ever has saved one save Talos?\\nWho had but one vein, stopped by nail in the top of his cranium.\\nWhich was drawn by J\\\\Iedea, who bled him to death, the vile priestess; i\\nBled a brass man to death it required a brass priestess to do it,\\nThat the Argonauts might land for what was elsewhere or nowhere:\\nThe pirates of yachting who sailed for the fleece that was golden.\\nEach seeking a fortune as payment for going a-yachting; j\\nArgonauts, prototypic of all who wish something for nothing,\\nAnd founder not, land not, these sons of perpetual motion, a\\nBut whether discoverers or victims thereof, tis their secret. s\\nO gods of reward, by what means shall we merit or keep it?\\nPerish the hybrid who tells you that Talos o erdid it,\\nFor friend, politician nor foe ever once pestered Minos.\\nWhat object in semce except that of being successful?\\n128", "height": "2766", "width": "2186", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "Name me the servant of state more successful than Talos,\\nA sentinel simply, the bronze pyro-warden of Candia!\\nNo kingdom was ever so perfectly guarded as Crete was.\\nWhat equal instance of office-beggars defeated?\\nI appeal for reply to the chairmen of all federations\\nFrom forty-nine north away southward to Tierra del Fuego\\nOne officer only; an indestructible coast-guard,\\nIndestructible but for the treacherous whim of a priestess.\\nTaking the place of cabinet, general and army.\\nMore efficient than European fleets around Crete in our decade.\\nWhat a sarcastic reflection on modern great nations!\\n121.\\nDo you call it necessary evil, or evil necessity?\\nI mean militarism one is euphemism for the other.\\nWhatever Emperor may do in suppressing the cause of it.\\nOr President in proclaiming civilian ideals\\nIn Chinese ports, British Guiana, or East or West Indies,\\nIs consistent with Washington s Farewell Address the world over\\nWithout regard to philanthropy, glory or doctrine.\\nBe he Nicholas or William; for George was a civilian and soldier,\\nBut soldier with purpose of fixing civilian supremacy.\\nThis is George s greatest justification of fortune.\\nTherefore lift high the praise of civilianism, O ye peoples!\\n122.\\nBetween silence and platitude, let us adore you for silence.\\nWe know the old truths, and your triteness cannot augment them;\\nNor mine I tell some of them over for pointing a satire.\\nIf the thought will not warrant the sentence, blow not with your inkhorn,\\nYou will aid your repute among friends by not blotting your topic.\\nBe sure of a new idea for the pen or thn platform;\\nNeither frenzy nor vagary, but something responsive to judgment.\\nAvoid secular paeans of syndicates antagonistic\\n129", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "And come in with me, for mine can be only harmonious!\\nJot nothing down till framed up in the epigrammatic:\\nYour cantos fall dead if in style they be dry or long-winded.\\nBright results, not the process of polishing, dazzle our optics.\\nThe new man and woman are doing us up for a novel.\\nWe are starting afresh as Adam and Eve would have started\\nIn an Eden of science, the Euphratian having been luckless,\\nAnd therefore dismissed in the hope of less bitter experience.\\nHelp us avoid the result of the dictum of Gresham\\nThat plutocracy will not disappear save in bloodshed;\\nThat a larger army than that General Grant commanded\\nWill not save from worse fate than dissolution of Union\\nGresham. Aristotle of politics dead in a clerkship.\\nTo divide an empire to rule it is sanctified politics.\\nToleration invites impositon; beware the ecclesiast\\nWho begins by intrusion and ends by absorbing your freedom.\\nThe mass sits on aisle-benches while pewmen debate in the vestry.\\nAnd superstition and capital tell you God willed it\\nTill superstition tells capital God needs the hoardings\\nThe ]^.Iost High thus appearing to wreck the estate of his children.\\nBut with layman and priest in My Syndicate on one level\\nThe Lord will not be abused nor the godly be mulcted.\\n123.\\nA race despotic in conscience is despot in politics\\nA race in politics free is free also in conscience.\\nAll divisional grasp must be limited by an average.\\nAll ambition of race be responsive at last to equality.\\nMan or race has the right to whatever its talents can gather.\\nBut no race has the right to attempt to sit down on its equals.\\nThat is a formula simple for dealing with all of them.\\nOne tyranny, as one liberty, leads to another.\\nWill pride in the past mixt with present apathy save you?\\nLet them surrender to freedom the casuist pretences\\nWherewith they insult the blood-purchased right of dissenting!\\nCharles the Ninth would be the first slain in a new St. Bartholomew.\\n130", "height": "2771", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "124-\\nThe age of the martyrs is past because nothing demands it;\\nIt is always past when the despot is tired of exacting;\\nOr during the peace imposed by extermination.\\nYou can call it up in a night if a martyr be needed,\\nAnd for modern purpose revive St. Barthol and Smithfield.\\nAny lost soul with a pretext tongue-laden can work this.\\nPrivate murder is still wholly free against free speech and conscience.\\nTake the cases of Hanford and Cronin, both in Chicago.\\nShall ex-cronies of Cronin continue to dictate your politics?\\nIn history are many periods with evils and martyrs;\\nYoi] an resurrect the worst by repeating its evil.\\nSuch period simply sleeps till you waken its genius,\\nThat of the copperhead waiting the boy in the playfield.\\nYour reformer is always sincere till he turns politician;\\nIhen he knows himself impossible as reformer.\\nWho, if he stay by his character, becomes martyr.\\nLet not love of your country appear in your praise of another.\\nImitation is not evolution w^e had a statesman\\nWho affected to think so criticism will destroy him\\nPoliticians of soothing-syrup cannot soften conditions.\\nDomestic reform resembles a jug of molasses;\\nA sweet dish of brief vogue put aside for the beef of the Tories\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Or some force-giving dish which revives our respect for our country.\\nEngland thrives or suffers by foreign affairs, not domestic,\\nAnd succeeds by the men who can rule there, or fails in their absence.\\nTruth advances, despite gifted good men who see not its bearings\\nThat is why one kingdom came three, and the three became empire.\\nTell this to the gentry of inkhom who next seek your suffrage.\\nI regret hostile propositions, which nature provides not.\\nBut her children, who correlate ever\\\\^thing v/ith the guinea.\\nI could reconcile some of them, but leave you to do it.\\nBecause process of learning surpasses acceptance of dogma.\\njO into the tower of thought and forget cumulation\\n131", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "125.\\nYet when yon come out a sarcasm may bite your conclusion.\\nToo much talent may mean a degenerate, just Hke too Httle,\\nIn the judgment of the low mighty average of egoism\\nIn the sacred even medium where grasp is the standard.\\nAdd this in the next time you cast up accounts with misfortune.\\nConform where you cannot refonn it will do you less injury\\nTlian fighting against the fleet though the logic of altruism\\nBeats that of hoard, and floats more public good in the oflrtng.\\nToo many rich admirals shoot against time to the contrary,\\nRut you cannot fire hard enough to make your impression.\\n126.\\nI know you, France 1 have lived with you, and I love you,\\nAnd I have been loved in your land by a standard ideal.\\nTlie Prince loves you, too happy nowhere as happy in Paris.\\nWhy do you always pounce for a weakness in Britain\\nAnd recoil like a cannon whose powder and ball have been wasted?\\nWe are more than we were you are not quite so much in proportion.\\ne know you can fight we have known it for dozens of decades.\\nYou lost Canada aac lost the empire adjacent to so thard.\\nIn revenge the balance is vastly yours be not cormorant.\\nWe do not deny our regret at the loss of that empire.\\nhile as France you are much, you cannot be France and Great Britain p\\nIf you try it agrain you will find it a wasting ambition.\\nWhy do your great men invent bases false for our greatness,\\nVos eclateurs de vaiseau, de la plume, et du sabre.\\nAs though to amuse the French people with quack raisons d etre,\\nOnly your prophets unheeded bespeaking the true one\\nThis is all nature gave us the place and our art has improved it.\\nAlthough, I am sorry to say, not improved it as yours would.\\nDo you wish any grander tribute than that to your grandeur?\\nThe world had been ours could we add to our own the French genius.\\nPossible foes geographic limit vour forces\\n132", "height": "2771", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Yet you never miss a childish chance to be restless\\nWhen our gifts of dominion offer new chances to nations.\\nLa dignite et la niaiserie: comment vont elles ensemble?\\nWe are the surest if not the swiftest in Europe,\\nAnd the happier and safer are we in not needing the swiftness.\\nI am giving you now the symposian taffy on Britain.\\nWe, too, could be great, should we choose it, in mobilization.\\nBut mobilization alone is not all we exist for.\\nWe prefer a national life on m.ore normal conditions.\\nYet your system is best where all live for mobilization.\\nSome others would live as we do if the waters were willing,\\nthe waters are more expensive for us than for any.\\nWe shall not try to injure you, and we wish no one else may.\\nHad it not been for you, we should not to-day be in Egypt.\\nHave you ever thought of chastising yourself for assisting there?\\nWe hold the balance of power but would rather not show it.\\nThis is the yarn the fool s paradise Englishman spins you.\\nThe mobilizes might some day object to that balance;\\nThereat we should mobilize quickly, if not cut to pieces.\\nYou might be overrun when no nation could touch us.\\nGeographic advantage alone gives us how many millions\\nTo overrun Britain the armies must march on the ocean\\nWe might from the first persuade them not to set foot there\\nThat is, when not led by a Ministry of Symposium.\\nCould you recover better without us than with us\\nIf you spoil for a fight, is it wise to select us as object?\\nThis is a question of strategy rather than tactics.\\nA strategic error substitutes tactics for strategy.\\nBut my Briton is navy-crazed, expecting his navy\\nTo be also an army, till venture shall settle the question\\nSo perhaps it is he who substitutes tactics for strategy.\\nAinsique le Fran ;ais leger ait plus du poids que notre Anglais\\n122-\\nNon credetela prova d amicizia fra le nazioni\\n-Massacrar gli assassini e giustificar il delitto\\n133", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "Perche non capace la Icgge fu di punirgli,\\nQuantunque nemici di tutti. stranieri vilissimi,\\nDetestati e non sostenuti dai compatrioti,\\nCosi fingendo virtu da necessita infame.\\nChe siate bene in caso di niantener i trattati,\\nYoi di lodi die i vostri non istancan ripettersi.\\nE die bene stii tu nella monarchia, Italia\\nTutt e bottica. se vuolete ma ce n e una migliore.\\nTutt e macchina. secondo i transatlantici\\nMacchina monarchica, macchina democratica, eccetera.\\nXon val neppur la pena d imprimere la lista\\nE quella dei socialisti cerca dispiazzar le altre.\\nPiantato 1 sistema, macchina sarebbe quell anche.\\nPill ciecchi, piu Icnti son finora i democratici,\\nPill di tutt altri fissati nell orgoglio di sistema,\\nScommetendo sempre della superiorita dei padri.\\nParlo ancora di macchina, sai, mia cara Italia\\nEvviva la macchina politica Ridiamo! Non siam ingannati\\nII sufFragio di tutti quegli che stanno a due piedi,\\nAndi i soldati veterani che stanno a uno,\\nSon veterano pur io, ma ne sto a due,\\nNon esaurisce la sete del sangue politico.\\nuoi esempj Non voglio irritar i colpevoli.\\nr^Ieno di quel limitato sembra saper i propositi,\\nE pare facilitar i frequenti abusi\\nScnza fare sparire un solo mal economico.\\nChilometri quadrati. numerosi e produttivi\\nNon sortono d alcuno sistema politico,\\n!Ma di la sortono ricconi e monopolj.\\nLi adosso si costruisce cio che si vuole,\\nTutto essendo giusto e consistente con tutto.\\nSistema glorioso dove 1 inconsistent e impossible\\nAndiamo al fondo del male, oppure tacciamo\\nEd io che lo dico ho vissuto in molte repubbliche,\\nE prendo le cose del mondo come le trovo,\\nE non tali quali tormentan i vast intelletti,\\n134", "height": "2771", "width": "2090", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "Vivendo da teorie per farle quadrarsi con tutto.\\nTutto sta nella proporzione di terra e popolo,\\nE terra non s aumenta da teorie politiche\\nChe cercan annihilire la brava monarchia.\\nEcco 1 recitative del vecchio osservatore\\n128.\\nAr^ment is better than dogma because more convincing\\nTo intelligent minds dogma being the pap of the satrap.\\nInterrogation I love, but we tire of the quandary\\n-So that where to conclude is as much of a razzle as ever,\\nNot that conviction is weak, but the wish to enforce it.\\nI honor ex-Senator Edmunds, but cannot go with him\\nInto constitutionism as an area of tether.\\nPower to limit is power to enlarge not finding, you make it.\\nManifest Destiny and My Syndicate both go together,\\nConstitutionism adapting itself to the sequence.\\n129.\\nFill a new pantheon with gods who cannot look backward\\nThe more they can see and step frontward the more we adore them.\\nWhat if the future shall smash them I hope it will do so\\nW hen others shall step front of them twould be destiny justified.\\nYou can be neither truthful nor free while you kneel to a fetich.\\nDo you kneel out of reverence or cowardice, knowing the object?\\nNot always right because once evolve, but uproot not.\\nBe not satisfied merely to see it yourself, but make others.\\nCram not with fat of the past, but get apt in ways easier.\\nHidden meaning means simply deficiency of expression.\\nThat which cannot be clearly set forth is unworthy of inkspread.\\nOccultism is something between a fog and a vanity.\\nLet new chaunticleer set new epigrams to new music.\\nLet a giant of letters tear out of letters their errors,\\n135", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "Tlif false sanctities misplaced in all tongues to mislead us.\\n1 would rather be he than Prometheus or Watt or Columbus.\\n130.\\nThe best soldier is he who comes last to the tield. not the bravest\\nho died overmatched with the foe overrunning- his country.\\nI once was a peace at any price man on conviction,\\nBut the practice of smiting both cheeks grew so painfully common.\\nAnd the coveter s rage so augmentative and persistent.\\nThat I changed my conviction completely, believing that nation\\nWhich should obey the mandate would cease to be nation.\\nBy the infidel absorbed as a futile experiment.\\nWith salvation shamed and its prophet ignored as vain dreamer.\\n\\\\\\\\lio will justify the impending decree of the Anarch?\\nThe moiling world cannot pay for gratuitous menace.\\nXor for irony of liars in the name of their country.\\nThe pressure of taxes on peoples w-ho cannot afford it\\nWill react till revolt universal shall substitute chaos.\\nEver}- nation on earth knows that Britain is last of the peace-breakers.\\nDisarm genuinely and we shall dismantle the Navy.\\nGreat is a fleet, but greater the nation not needing it.\\nMilitarism prodded even the States into arming.\\nTheir moral example being lost in the greed of the envious\\nTill they were at length compelled to take arms to assert it.\\nDoes France maintain a republic to propagate czarism?\\nXo France will see further ahead and step out of the folly.\\n131-\\nConsider a people a public and not as a populace,\\nReciprocally its own government and all others.\\nMake the populace a public in morals and honor.\\nLet them discover a mind as distinct from a mania.\\nThe uneducatevi will in the acts of a nation\\nIs much worse than in those of a man, because they reach further.\\n136", "height": "2695", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Do not resent a new light as the flash of an insult.\\nNeither dodge a new truth as a suddenly pointed revolver.\\nIf in private life you admit that your chief is true blue fellow.\\nPass not ancestral reflections nor curse him in public.\\nMistake not indifference nor dullness for magnanimity,\\nXor regard the ex-tough who is rich as a saint or a gentleman.\\nTis easy to seem what you choose after bagging the boodle.\\nLove your country as much as you choose without hating another.\\nNine radiant sons of the nine parts of speech as objectors\\nUniversal, do less harm than one war-whooping patriot,\\nThe orator and the oracle of the tavemacle,\\nOr a gent of the toga whose bravery strangles conviction.\\nDe- not call on your God as a cheap means of shirking your duly,\\nNeither tr to put elsewhere your own obligations by praying.\\nYou cannot take sanctuary from unperformed office.\\nThe God who provided a world that provides us a living\\nWorks by general design and not by a providence special.\\nDo your part, which is not to pray God that another may do it.\\nTo commend to his care that which you were commanded to care for\\nIs foolish and impious and ineffective divinely.\\nThat is why so many millions of prayers go unanswered.\\n132.\\nBe slow to let go of individual initiative.\\nIndividual competition brings out the best faculties.\\nAnd My Syndicate shall be operate on this principle\\nDividends, not wages and you must hustle to earn them.\\nThis prevents the vast wealth of the few on starved toil of the many.\\nNo dividend means no payment to any shareholder.\\nIt is your duty to work, and to win is your policy,\\nAnd, unit born, to do both on your unit identity.\\nIn no sense do you need a board of directors to limit you.\\nRepresenting stored millions of guineas against your wage-pent! ies.\\nIf parental responsibility is to be justified,\\nYour right to live free from the say of a board of directors\\n137", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "Is as good as it was to be born without their approval.\\nFree field equal dividends no big fortunes no wages\\nThis puts luxury and necessity on one level\\nAnd refuses to see in sordidness virtue or wisdom.\\nAm I shouting above your plateau Well, to climb is good exercise.\\nThe industrial trustee is the vampire of modern subsistence.\\nI believe that no prior great head has affixed him that stigma;\\nBut, being in, he cares nothing for stigma being ex is what troubles him.\\nGo not to war you would better extirpate your vampires,\\nThus earning fresh glory and setting a moral example.\\nAs a President tried to do in the Saccharine Islands.\\nYou acquire no more right to a property simply by coveting\\nThan the ventrical deist has in the dinner too dear for him.\\nI am merely ahead of my time you will soon overtake me.\\n]My great age w^as projected ahead, not locked in symposium,\\nAgapemone of the wits who have fuddled three decades.\\nThings good in themselves are good regardless of origin.\\nDo you know any truth that is true because somebody said it,\\nOr one damned in itself by the character of the finder?\\nThe decalogue is not hurt because Moses was an assassin.\\nAll men are the sons of some cultus, the heirs of some glory\\nNot all are equal, and you over some are lord warden;\\nBut if providence gave you a country and fate a vast empire,\\nProscribe not your miates nor be priests of a braggart apostolate,\\nOf spolia opima won from one man by a dozen.\\nOr by million buffonic Marcelli crushing a thousand.\\nNot born to the manor, this priesthood, it frequently happens.\\nBut of sinuous aliens seeking advantages tortuous.\\nBe not so preoccupied as to let them deceive you\\n133-\\nOne way to be statesman is to take up some small issue,\\nIn itself worth nothing, good for notoriety only,\\nAnd crowd it on some weaker party or nation, depending\\nOn vociferousness of those who seek to sell printsheets\\n138", "height": "2801", "width": "2025", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "To give you great fame or you may be soldier and do this,\\nField-Marshal if you can find a field, or siege-layer,\\nAnd by one giant bluff win a battle from starving small numbers.\\nYears pass you have opened wine, drawn large pay, and paraded.\\nTill at length History gathers you in, self-surprised at her conduct.\\nMeanwhile votes are cast, taxes paid, and electors keep thinking.\\n134.\\nPatriotism ought to be always presumed, not suspected,\\nUntil the superfluous shouter provoketh suspicion,\\nifiv ade not by indirect ways this intensifies rancor.\\nTell not oni what terms you permit to your neighbors their freedom\\nOne grows weary of listening to principle from a puritan\\nWho resents that to which he affects to expect your submission.\\nIndirection suggests league defensive, not weak because tacit\\nThe silence of self-knowni power that hopes to be spared a loud challenge.\\nCommon feeling is sometimes so strong that noi treaty is needed\\nAnd sometimes you think this is true and get left v^^hen the test comes.\\nRespect in your neighbor the rights which you call for so loudly.\\nPower is prone to dodge moral restraints and to justify errors.\\nThe logic of inter-continental antagonism\\nWould justify the abolition of commerce.\\nThe snub of the sea, the rejection of union oceanic,\\nThe denial of natural league of the lands with the waters.\\nThe duty of equals one to another is serious.\\nYour gains are the sort that are built on the loss of your masses,\\nAnd they surely will ruin your game when they see how you play it\\nYou are winning large fortunes while they are collecting large wisdom.\\nAll government is but machine, and you love your machinery.\\nYour dear fathers, and curs, each taught us that each is superior.\\nThe faction that breaks a machine becomes straightway machinist\\nAnd, as such, is no better than that which it superseded.\\nI love mine, and the Spaniard loves his, and the Turk, and the Russian;\\nMine would not do for them any of theirs were too much for this poet.\\nBy abusing mine do you cause yourn to run any smoothlier?\\n139", "height": "2792", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "Darn diplomacy Come out and cheer the machine in the open.\\nIf aliens vote in their interest to capture a country,\\nTo make it subservient to purposes nothing but foreign,\\nSay not I set race against race if I there call attention.\\nAt what pace shall a race take the place of the race it denounces\\nAs despot, by putting theocracy atop of democracy?\\nMy Syndicate and an Entente would absorb their activities,\\nIf not their identity also by making them useful.\\nTransformed agitators earning syndicate dividends Quid nunc, Domine\\nI pray you permit not coercion by public opinion\\nSo called, which is really the massing of ignorance on wisdom.\\nThe mobbing by impulse of him whom slow study enlightens.\\nOf him who thinks and is true to conviction and courage,\\nAnd to vociferation contributes nothing whatever\\nThe dragooning of him who dares to be individual\\nAnd thus alone becomes fitted to lead or tO follow.\\nThis is nature s own law from the first form to the last, primacy.\\nIt is aristocratic only as best is aristo.\\nIn the eternal fitness of things the few are the wiser.\\nAnd will be forever, in spite of majority instincts.\\nWhich are individual, and fully shared by minority\\nHolding also the enormous advantage of study.\\nLight quillists extol the paradise of the restless\\nThere the thinker is not permitted to speak, and the speaker\\nIs expected not to be thinker that is the difference.\\nPlautus is heavy for him who would rather not read him.\\nIf enlightenment be but the dose which Lucretius would sugar.\\nWhence comes the curative draught Must it always be Marah\\nIf the name had not lapsed into irony, I were reformer\\nBut, I pray you, the handshake of love even though I seem Tory.\\n135-\\nThe great man, being great in himself, would fit any epoch,\\nThat is, if your jealousy would let him fit anything\\nPrior to the point where by force he shall smash it to atoms.\\n140", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "Bang up would Napoleon be now could he bang modern cannon.\\nNot afraid of five terms is Porfirio Diaz, nor his people,\\nThe Augustus of Mexico, equally loved and respected.\\nAnd so with twelve more, if good scholar can count us so many.\\nThe pioneer stage develops some strong human virtues\\nNot found in the state succeeding the earlier activities.\\nCromwell was not pioneer he was merely transformer.\\nOliver smashed an old system and settled one, later demolished,\\nOn God as he deemed him a substitute for a Stuart.\\nThis brought a fresh Stuart as substitute for a deity,\\nAnd a sarcasm celestial on Oliver came in the substitute.\\nBut alas that his virtues remain in his own generation.,\\nFor the pioneer s son is another sort of a fellow\\nOn the basis of civilization laid by his father\\nHe builds an industrial system, and riches and poverty,\\nEducation, hypocrisy, lockouts and dynamite follow.\\nThus the old pioneer is much more the respectable fellow.\\n136.\\nYou decrease individual importance by raising the average,\\nBut for the multitude which we love it is better\\nFor the multitude for which you and I pulverize the person.\\nAnd now, my elector, look well to thy leader of labor\\nHe can frighten the rate of discount into a tremolo\\nBy simply knowing his business but so can another\\nPrevent him by knowing a little more of his business.\\nBut the pressing needs of mankind are not met by debating\\nRather by equity and adjustment according to science\\nBy the science which is the larger knowledge of circumstance.\\nUse sense only with him whom experience brings to conclusions.\\nIn patriotism, study, in all of the higher activities,\\nI would spare all opinions while openly airing my notions.\\nTo give chances for smashing mistakes is a high public service.\\nThus if college-bred men are prejudged in favor of classmates\\nAs against the athletes of mind and of muscle outside them,\\n141", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "Then I say education has narrowed, not widened their natures,\\nTeaching a social egoism and a patriotism shouty.\\nAnd to that extent is misnamed from the depths are you with me?\\nThen let us look on mistakes from the perch of the prophet\\n137-\\nIt is not easy to govern imagination\\nFor him to whom it comes as an easy quack capital.\\nBut nature is weak and I know not his point of surrender,\\nAnd while I am willing to trust it is unfair to tempt him.\\nSpeech is silvern silence is golden. I know of a mountain\\nRich in the bases of both if I tell where to find it\\nHe will dig out the part oratoric to lie of the silent,\\nSo much he loveth his voice more than that of more value,\\nAnd circulate thus the tokens of tongue for deception.\\nIn his vanity leaving the tokens of thought in concealment.\\nAnd so I will keep to myself the address of my mountain,\\nPor the world is belated and silver-plated from speech-mines.\\n138.\\nGold has doubled in value, you say why not let it quadruple\\nOr silver, if silver can find the same chances in commerce?\\nThe measure of value itself is at last a comimodity,\\nWhether you make the measure of metal or credit.\\nAnd the prices of all things must fluctuate, gold not excepted.\\nAuction-value is possible even to national credit\\nAnd some such, if so bought, would net a good loss for the buyer,\\nNo matter how low he might bid, or underrate assets.\\nThe faith of all men in themselves is worth more than all metals\\nBut this worth is destroyed where only the few remain faithful.\\nLet democracy therefore stay firm, not for metal, but justice.\\nMay it not be again led away by the prophets of crazes\\nAnything may be built by ignoring of truths elemental\\nWe called such things castles in Spain, till the States blew their roofs off.\\n142", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Oold is not guilty for finding the gilt situation\\nSilver is seeking it now with phenomenal eagerness.\\nSuppose gold divided and silver quadrupled in value,\\nWould ye refuse to push gold to the standard of silver\\nIf ye could, O ye statesmien of speeches as long as a session\\nDo you seek to create of the public a victim of heresy\\nOn which to unload, and then let gold shoulder all burdens,\\nEven those which your project would pile on its present cumulus?\\nI speak to the speakers now specious in white metal specie,\\nAs though they were talking for coal-dust as commerce-disturber.\\nGold found its chances and silver got left then why grumble\\nTis but a natural instance of growl, dear elector.\\nMany chances unforseen daily modify prices.\\nDo not silverites strain every nerve to make silver more precious,\\nWhile the gold fellows equally strive to appreciate their metal\\nWhy should other metals be taxed to make silver the dearer?\\nSome one metal must measure all others why not let gold do it\\nWhy seek to unsettle all values for mere change of measure?\\nEverything that depreciates continuously goes into bankruptcy;\\nWhatsoever appreciates continuously makes people richer\\nSo far as such things are concerned, be the same good or evil\\nAnd when industry prospers all things whatever appreciate\\nAccording to market demand and especially silver.\\nSenators take their turns going to Heaven, but this truth stays in Washington.\\nAfter all, these are nothing but golden and silvern conundrums.\\nArgent-Plutus and Aurum-Plutus seem locked in a prize-ring\\nIn front of My Syndicate windows, while I referee them.\\n139.\\nMore our epigrams are ironic summaries of failure\\nThan guidieboards at fortunate forks in the road to successes\\nThat is, in the main when by chance they record something better,\\nThey spring forth of some happy fellow whose luck was not general,\\nWhom imagination inspired to emit something hopeful,\\nTo arrest and preserve after dinner a flash optimistic.\\n143", "height": "2737", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "The more you read up, the more gravely you doubt your own genius.\\nSpontaneity is overlaid by your knowledge.\\nIf unlearned, you hit on fresh thoughts which are fresher in Plato.\\nSo that well-read or ill, it is mighty hard to be gifted.\\n140.\\nDoes man earn salvation, or is it decreed by vox populi\\nVox decrees so much nowadays that the limit is doubtful.\\nDid not even Augustus, when dying, doubt his life s value\\nCan you go to Heaven by act of Danubian Sobranje,\\nOr of bodies colossal enactive by Thames or Potomac?\\nOverspread popular sovereignty sometimes suggests it,\\nSuggests that you can, and that merit is measured by shouting.\\nBout-face from your man at the point where you follow him dumb-struck I\\nHalf-solved problems shine for results like the pirate s decoy-light.\\nWhy quintuple the wisdom of those who wallow in politics,\\nA science which teaches expediency only, not principle?\\nDoes the simple fact of election make him a Solomon\\nDoes defeat make a muleteer of the candidate beaten?\\nIf elected, did you think office would make him a Solon?\\nWhy do exes find least of respect among suffragists-general\\nIf God were sardonic his favorite game would be suffrage,\\nI deem from the accidents which recur for its prestige.\\nBlind political adoration discredits a freeman.\\nWhy seek ye to serve many men, ye who will not serve one man\\nPolitical fictions are ludicrous now throw them over.\\nYour offer to serve is the subterfuge of the ruler,\\nAnd wrong to its depths is the system that renders this possible.\\nIf constituents were as wise as the Member from Stumpville,\\nHis stump speeches would cease to be useful in fuddling the people.\\nNever descend to make hirelings of those who make statutes.\\nAt this point I am looking for sense as distinct from sensation.\\nMy faith in the people is large, but is larger in Lexow\\nSince the popular knowledge of what his committees discovered.\\nIf a poor man be really required, his electors can pay him,\\n144", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Thus doubling the credit due to constituents and member.\\nThis means the state shall not pay for the bluffing self-seekers\\nWho lack both the mind and equipment due to the duty.\\nA hardship Perhaps but the lesser choice of two evils.\\nIf I know not the devil in this, I can never know anything.\\nLet us go it by morals and honor, not by the average,\\nDull substitute of the lazy for grasp and analysis.\\nThe average is the curse of political casuistry,\\nAnd conscience-forcing on others is worse than the conquest\\nSo reprehended as crime by President McKinley.\\nThe honor of serving the crown is as great as to wear it\\nA different order of merit, but morally equal.\\nThe crown in heaven and on earth the most beautiful symbol\\nWhen neither misused nor abused, which is frightfully frequent.\\n141.\\nWith your mind once thoro ly free you will judge of the genii\\nLess by degree than by order of beauty and merit.\\nLoad not Sophocles and Shakespeare with contrast and contact,\\nLest your reader in mere self-defence vow that neither had genius.\\nEach excels the other in cumulation differential,\\nOr in something like that, till the commentators go crazy\\nAnd each was great, greater or lesser, just as you deem him,\\nWith the critic thrown out as the bully of private judgment.\\nBoth were mufifs, if your admiration be not spontaneous.\\nLet us free our high minds from mere vassalage to conviction\\nNo man has been great enough yet for a critic-made fetich,\\nTo be sustained through all ages by psean ascriptions\\nOf the fellows who simply discover new terms of laudation.\\nI say no man was ever thus great, and I make no exception.\\nThis all comes from a mind mathematic, you see, not poetic.\\nWould to the gods Prometheus had left an opinion on .^schylus\\nWho bound him, or on Shelley, who undid the work of the Grecian\\nYet concerning them both he has always seemed scornfully silent\\nNot a word whether Shelley or ^schylus left him the happier,\\n145", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "Nor of gratitude nor of preference for Hellen or Briton.\\nYet it may be he sulks in dumb rage that the punitive eagle\\nNo longer provokes him to shout as the Franklin primaeval.\\nAnd Homer deigns nothing of Chapman, Pope, Derby or Bryant.\\nThe gods gave grand chances to poets, not slow to improve them.\\nNor to handle those gods in defiance of schemes of punition.\\nI wonder what Shakespeare would say of the theorem binomial.\\nWas Phidias or Angelo greater Yet stay not to tell me\\nI might not assimilate your dictum, yet would not reject it.\\nDavid is equal to Zeus, and their fames cannot crumble.\\n142. _\\nEstablish your nation in God s name, with plenty of Bible;\\nMake statesmen of theocrats who quote freely its maxims\\nThey can be trusted to turn into democrats, finally,\\nAnd then to regret that democracy slowly slips from them.\\nThen on this democracy a new race theocratic\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Will descend in augmenting hordes to preach human unity\\nWith their race as the unit point and force wherefrom trouble\\nWill come thence more freedom and higher, of the species\\nThat has burned error to ashes instead of corraling it.\\nThus democracy will sufifer and win from theocracy.\\nThrough the aid of the tribe of Poohpooh, in shining and lasting example.\\n143-\\nNothing fallacious in despotism it means that the despot\\nIs fitted to rule, and the governed are fit to be governed\\nIn church, state or social collection, regardless of continent.\\nAltruism and evolution studied as sciences\\nWill extirpate this evil, will take it out of the races\\nAfter long labor of love, whereof no one grows weary\\nWhen once he has made up his mind to begin in that labor.\\nHowever, meanwhile I expect a few despots will flourish.\\nThe race is not swift to take the first pace altruistic.\\n146", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "144-\\nThis book is not written in condemnation of systems,\\nOf any system, political, social or sponive,\\nBut to ask how they square themselves off with professions and ethics,\\nAnd partly to educate people on education.\\nThough my pretensions therein are mainly suggestive.\\nYet education itself begins by suggestion.\\nBalzac wrote of the potent education of chastisement\\nFor those predestined to greatness and yet the great Frenchman\\nHad been great for some time ere acquainting the world with his foresight.\\nWhich weakens it somewhat as foresight is one of his destiny.\\nTJewas the Shakespeare of prose, as some Englishman put it\\nJn an access of condescension and truth which astonish.\\nThough Balzac had ten times the chances of Shakespeare at knowledge,\\nAnd was vastly more sparing in use of the genius poetic.\\nSince irony takes prior rank in his Comedy Human;\\nWhose fun finds in human nature its justification.\\nThe greatest work of a man of his years in all letters.\\nIf I should ever concern myself with curricula,\\nChastisement should hold the first place in the new education.\\nI am the foe of the ancient instruction of failure.\\nYour task is to show it is other, O Arnold and Eliot\\nNot to lecture all round and over the theme, but to show it.\\nI am the friend of the ninety-and-nine who succeed not\\nBy reason of chances in mono and not in the poly.\\nFrom this p oint all the courses in schools cannot graduate this poet.\\nThese schools owe mankind an apolog)^, if they can frame one.\\nHead-master of Harvard, here is a chance to beat Franklin,\\nBorn not five miles from your door, and not one of your graduates.\\nWho had the gift of surpassing some fellows who were such.\\nDo for education what he did for lightning, I pray you\\n145-\\nA mistake of old men, and I write it with hand not quite steady,\\nIs their weighty reflections on things that young men deem historic\\n147", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "Or that is the way the young men in new countries explain it.\\nIf activity leave them at fifty and they Hve to a hundred\\nThey reason with beauty and force of the things that are bygone,\\nWhile the young fellows fight the new problems and carry the burdens.\\nAnd win the experiences age alone can make use of.\\nDo you grasp the perplexity now whose sequence disturbs us?\\nExperience too old to be active, youth hopeful and daring,\\nOf the errors of energy full and the comfort of courage.\\nLet us compromise so that no one shall live after forty\\nOr establish an age for retiracy on compulsion\\nWhereat the wise stand aside and watch ignorance flounder.\\nLet each system work itself out to success or to failure\\nBut when any has failed, pray do not insist it succeeded.\\nPatriotic self-complacency need not be idiocy.\\nIf gods disappeared and idols were smashed, so of systems.\\nUnhappy the man who lifteth the fool as by windlass\\nYet many grow old and fall dead at the crank of that duty,\\nUnsung for their pains but a just God rewards them hereafter.\\nI sing not as psalmist, nor crank but as tuneful observer,\\nAs the miscellaneous musician of discords concordant.\\nNot as professor of propaganda or dogma\\nAnd my melodies have been supped from the spheres and from elsewhere.\\n146.\\nThis may seem a superfluous proposition of business,\\nYet have I seen some lives wrecked through its lack of observance.\\nIn order to get any money out of a business\\nThere must be some in it think well about that before choosing,\\nIf you can find time to be bred and were not born a funwaif,\\nSince nothing yields less of a profit than misapplied labor.\\nAnd the longer you travail the greater the misapplication.\\nYou do not lack talent because your pursuit has no value\\nYou do lack reward because it comes not from such calling.\\nAll the talents are not for one man, nor is one man for all things,\\nAnd the skill of a world may not rescue the victim of no skill.\\n148", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "Mere labor alone, though titanic, creates not a fortune\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Cast your eye for the possible guineas before you begin it.\\nThe longshoreman and Shakespeare could not exchange situations,\\nYet of both not the more indifferent was the poet\\nBecause he could not stow cargo as well as write Hamlet.\\nEnergy bursts into manifestations peculiar.\\nThe Icarus of science might drop on a pinion dissolving.\\nWhile a pigeon might fly with his secret to alchemist Huxley.\\nDo not abuse the successful some things in his merit\\nOr chances have justified all he has gathered, and envy\\nMight eat up the active force you require to surpass him.\\nBui: be not a god ere your time it will make you unhappy\\nAnd misunderstood pretend that you have no pretensions\\nTo high life, and so popularize yourself with compatriots.\\nAnd enchant those who deemed you were idle because you were lofty.\\nLet the dull inflict pain from the dullness you cannot illumine\\nGod made you both some day you may learn why he did it.\\nMan cannot be wholly wise till he loses his sympathy\\nSo long as he keeps it in stock he will waste it on some one\\nWho was not clever enough to get above need of it.\\n147.\\nA top-coat in the noon of a summer sun is superfluous\\nSo is any gift higher than just enough for your purpose.\\nPericles himself was perhaps not the perfect Athenian\\nAt driving a cab yet at highest was higher than cabby.\\nYou see, the higher endowirients govern the lower,\\nEven to the point of unfitting for low occupations.\\nYou may do yourself some good if you keep this fact by you.\\nIs that why the ungifted make so successful an average?\\nNo more and no less are their gifts than just those which are wanted.\\nDoubt me not, lest you weaken my faith in your fitness for judging.\\nAdaptability and nothing too much for the object\\nIs the rule of both Sandy of capital and thinker.\\nOne thinks, and the other imagines he thinks till the moment\\n149", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "Of interest arrives, when he lapses, and hoards, and grows greedy.\\nBut his thought enriched him far as he went give him credit.\\n14S.\\nI have traveled till strangeness and distance grew near and familiar.\\nHalf-frozen in high north, and have sweltered in tropic republics,\\nAnd have studied, debated and paid years and gold for my knowledge,.\\nAnd I pray you, my Britons, be slower than ever at changes!\\nNo single assembly reflect on the French revolution,\\nOr our one extra-constitutional high court of justice.\\nA concentric cyclone in colossal trombone is not greatness,\\nUnless as it vibrates conception out of existence.\\nSome systems are run for political fun more than business,\\nBut that is their business, and to it I see no objection,\\nExcept that it does not facilitate economics\\nAs eliminator of politics with the governed,\\nAnd in which those taxed for the fun perhaps take the most interest.\\nBut blessed are they who can pay for political circus\\nI would join them whenever I might in the novel amusement.\\n149.\\nFielding was funny, but nothing to Senator Lexow.\\nIf capacity to stay laughter grew not in ratio\\nTo provocation thereto, his committees would kill us\\nThe demons would beat the deities in hilarity.\\nLet us see how it seems to be serious on books, dailies, posters.\\nThe invention of print has excited a lust of dominion\\nIn sacred and secular issues and themes and in science,\\nIn all things, whether abstract or concrete, that passes the passion\\nFor power of mediaeval pontifex, prophet or preacher,\\nFilling the ink-bottle up with a Julian ambition.\\nThe evil is not unmixt, but the good could have waited\\nAnd the sacrificed souls of the ink-shrine been better immortals,\\n150", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Csesarean victims of stabs at the pillar of failure.\\nLet not the puritan editor squirm round this topic\\nHe who can lift confiscation into beatitude\\nBecause force majeure got on top of force mineure only,\\nCan show that the world was created a joke for the typos,\\nA sarcastic pleasantry for cabinets and commissioners,\\nThat all life was born merely for print, and can justify anything.\\nThis Pen-Mephistopheles of the system of Moses.\\n150.\\nSign no sliding scale of imperial spoliation,\\nOB. itain, cut up not quite yet into rashers of bacon,\\nThough if magazine-pens were knives you would long since have been such.\\nForego the blind clutch at new straws in the name of advancement.\\nElect not the coffee-house talker as framer of statutes.\\nIf in your prayers you tell God there is nothing good in you,\\nWhy should your country be right with your neighbors no better?\\nManifest destiny should educate itself for advancement\\nBy suasion rather than force, lest some new combination,\\nUnexpected, might oppose to it other manifest destiny.\\nPenury contributes nothing to mental advantage,\\nHowso freely it may fill up a cistern of sympathy.\\n*Tis a good school to escape from at end of first primer,\\nAnd augments the law-maker s gifts with mistaken compassion\\nFor those who mistake mere free speech for industrial freedom.\\nThe great Nineteenth Century expires with a million stock companies\\nPaying dividends on labor, but to labor no dividend.\\nThe syndicator says I am wrong here that labor\\nDraws the first dividend this is not true for he pays it\\nWith dividend labor-created, without which no divvy\\nWas possible, and of which he put not a stroke in.\\nHe paid dividend to labor to spare himself labor,\\nClear thought here no fooling market rate mark it no altruism.\\nMy Twentieth Century Syndicate will transform this.\\nBut your corner talker cannot draft projects in aid of it.\\nISI", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "God grant me income if I am to stand for a borough,\\nYet I do not wish to be paid by the state for my service,\\nNor to use labor s income as member to vote for monopoly.\\nBusiness on a large scale in few hands does not give me the razzle\\nSmall shops with the dividends spread through the people are better.\\nModern methods object Then let them be promptly made ancient\\nExistent wrong is not right because interests are vested.\\nBut I lost all my love of statesmanship in the lobby\\nAnd in committee, of which an exhibit of the corruption\\nWould raise such a millionaire howl that I stop ere beginning it,\\nFor I would do nothing to aid a new French revolution.\\nAt the same time, keep the crank silent suppress the idealogue.\\nOnly trained man of affairs should stand as the secular Moses\\nTill the people shall be drummed up to commandments non-secular;\\nBut such secular Moses should be decalogical also,\\nAnd till he be found Nineteenth Century dividends will be payable\\nIn century twentieth ot fortieth you may bank on this circumstance.\\nBut let not your Plutus purchase his seat in the forum\\nEvil should be stopped short of purpose to buy its immunity.\\nHis money is doing him good it will not do you any.\\nAn investment must pay the investor, not the constituent.\\nMen do not get wealthy and stay so by working for others.\\nThough Cardinal Hfred says the fact that a man has won fortune\\nOf itself makes him eligible for any top place in the government.\\nThis makes me feel like painting Hfred redder than ever.\\nMy flamboyant priest of the golden calf of Manhattan^\\nNot only as a worshipper, but proprietor also\\nWhich makes him uniquely attractive beyond other prelates.\\n151.\\nDo not worship your hero too much put your mind on his limits,\\nBe he Cincinnatus, Confucius, or Chief of the Csesars.\\nThe greatest man simply shows somebody how to go further.\\nBut within the right lines not to go for the mere sake of mioving.\\nBe shy of advisers, term-tossers and choppers of maxims.\\n152", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "Look for him who will sacrifice something to set up his counsel,\\nNot accumulate money by telling you how you can t do it,\\nWho can cure all the ills of the race if it pay for his nostrums.\\nWe are living still with the doctrine of total depravity.\\nIf not in the fact and no prophet is wholly triumphant,\\nNot even the Altruist nailed to a tree for his fellows,\\nThough temples ironic resound with his faith ini twelve nations.\\n152.\\nLove thyself let thy neighbor slide, and so be a patriot,\\nAs thou wouldst let slide the burning barn of next farmer.\\nBe ccvetDUs in despite of Moses the Premier\\nOf the terribly godly tribes of conceit and exclusion.\\nFrom which we moderns inherit a tribe of embarrassments\\nToo crass to forecast a universe on one planet,\\nIncognizant of the wealth in the welfare of all men.\\nOf doctrinaires still the chiefs while still men. of percentage,\\nFull of preach that shows how, without energy to achieve it.\\nOverflowing with maxims of faith which the others must practise\\nSo bound up that the more they agree the more they make money.\\nAnnex all patriots if you cannot annex all countries\\nJoined to your own these alone would make all empires colonies\\nBy surcharging the air with ozone of the national ambition\\nFull of anthropological essence derived from all races.\\nAvast not oration forestall by attributing motive.\\nLove-thy-neighbor-as-thyself was good law for one people,\\nBut it was not expected to w^ork in the struggle of fifty.\\nMoral law, like all other, is flexible tO advantage;\\nMoses did not teach this but allow for the era he lived in.\\nOr he might have invented a flag and made murder a virtue\\nOf all who preferred a flag of another invention.\\nYour flag is as good as mine, though I like mine the better\\nBut if you falsely praise yours to depreciate my bunting,\\nYou are a low little chap of contemptible nation,\\nNo matter what be its bulk nor its progress fictitious,\\n153", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "Nor where you may sprout in the rankness of mental disorder.\\nWhy do you lift up such men to the seat of the scornful?\\nWherein are they better than those who inherit the office?\\nI ask not are they just as good, but to see the improvement.\\nPermanent college of arbitration is argued\\nFrom this for suppressing of war and diluting flag-fury.\\nThe doctrine of Canning-Monroe is extended to Asia,\\nNot withdrawn from America: time to remodel your bunting!\\nAs I said on a prior page, group all flag-stars in one star,\\nFor democracy is monarchy in relation to Union.\\nDemocracy seems to be planning a planetary circus.\\nAll for fun, or the worjd well won, is the popular motto.\\nMay Aurora restore me my youth in the land that adopts it\\n153-\\nSatiation insatiable wears out the heart of a people.\\nNo more imperial example of this than the Roman.\\nThey who seek to be great by depreciating others will vanish.\\nThe cumulative drunk of long power is exhaustive.\\nCompetition and counterpoise are essential with nations.\\nThe imperial example of disappearance was Roman.\\nThe affinity of all big republics for Cassarism\\nIs not a phenomenon but a natural sequence.\\nBe it modestly said, size is more imposing than system,\\nBecause human nature prefers impression to study.\\nThis is far from intending a slur upon popular oligarchy,\\nThe few who rule while the multitude deems them the people.\\nThis is. not dogma; I earnestly wish you disprove it.\\nIf you study power as an essence and not as a gewgaw,\\nPower lodged in one man or a hundred millions, I care not.\\nWith no intermediate bufl^er, you will find the affinity.\\nTis the buffing body that lessens the shock of the contact.\\nWhether it be of menacing, bluffing or duffing.\\nNow, what is the buffing body Do you really not know it\\nThink a minute, and do not require me to be too explicit.\\n154", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "In the pure economic system no buffing^ is needed.\\nBut in that neither Csesar nor oligarch is permitted.\\nThere is no public good in mere inkroU, as such, of opinions.\\nThe pubhc mind is wholly concerned with equipment.\\nI am not decrying free press, but crying for equipment.\\nWhereof I sometimes see much, and more frequently nothing.\\nIt comes hard to admit the mercantile side of opinion,\\nBut you know that competition gives value to some of it,\\nAnd again destroys that very value by giving it.\\nI suppose that the fraudulent part of the freedom of printing\\nWill yet cost the bloodiest war in the history of nations.\\nWar seems part of the inescapable scheme of punition\\nWhich the moral law inflicts on persistent transgressors.\\nWhy not see this law in advance, why wait to be punished\\nIf your miass be too blunt, are your prophets too dull to admonish\\n154.\\nThe man who grieved Mr. Grievely to death says the ocean\\nTo his westward will soon belong as a lake to his country.\\nArbitration proclaimed the Pacific entire a free ocean.\\nAnd the wing of the eagle will droop ere it touch its west limit.\\nThe open door is combined with free sea universal.\\nOther nations will call a loud halt to this raging exclusionist,\\nWhose expansion of head exceeds that of his country s dominion.\\nDaniel Webster did relatively more without war than he with it.\\nFor he won half of Maine by concealing a map of Ben Franklin s\\nAnd drawing his own a diplomacy true and colossal\\nAn emanation of intellect worthy the races.\\nThe several races from which Dan the Great was descended.\\nThen he had his own way in settling the right of search question.\\nSubstitutor of ink for blood in the people s dominion,\\nHe achieved what the bloodshed of Eighteen- Twelve left unsettled.\\nHe doubled a State with free seas for the pride of his country.\\nThe pen of Dan Webster won more than the sword of Napoleon\\nFrom Britain, yet second-chop chaps in his country outrank him.\\nISS", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "And then his campaign was to win not by insult, but sawder.\\nMr. Webster shot not, neither danced he the jig of the jingo;\\nNor did he whoop up the bhoys on any topic whatever.\\nKe locked up the cannon and sword and Hfted the swan-quill,\\nThis boundary giant, this statesman of sawder-won purpose,\\nWhose words had a musket-fire courage in claiming conditions\\nAs he bended from greatness to cleverness for his object\\nAnd upsprang like his figures of speech when ascension was needed.\\nT bow to his fame whensoever I think of his innings.\\nLord Palmerston called them a British capitulation.\\nSuch is not in the ken of him who grieved Mr. Grievely.\\nDaniel, this is the day of old friends who are doubtful of new ones,\\nAnd I lovingly call thee for contemplation and contrast\\nIn thy Capitol niched as the statesman of fields which were pen-won.\\nAs cartographer alike of free State and free ocean.\\nWho still livest the speechful Senator of the Silent\\n155-\\nResponsibility is vast in establishing commonwealth.\\nIt puzzled Cromwell, who affected political conscience.\\nAnd much mind and force as applied on that side of the question,\\nFor a despotic theocracy then passed as a commonwealth.\\nIf you make a success in beginning and expect to continue it.\\nWhy is not the same breed required to maintain as to found it?\\nThis is an easy first lesson in anthropology\\nAnd does not assail any institutions whatever.\\nSo long as tis easier to earn than to gamble, tis perfect.\\nAnd that is, of course, the perfect condition of living;\\nI mean earning, not gambling, of course, and in commonwealths also.\\nAll goes well in such conditions till the theory of manhood.\\nThat is, mere adultness holding quality in defiance.\\nPrimary quality, not that of claqueurs or cliques of society,\\nWorks a change plain to all men except the professional patriot\\nHe who more injures his country than all of its criminals\\nIf the systems of Moses or Christ or Mahomet mean anything.\\n156", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "Will some equalist tell us why nature dodges equality\\niHe who leads is superior the mere fact of leading is proof of it.\\njWhy not organize your system, then, by acknowledging it\\nA first-class man is misplaced at a second-chop duty.\\nYour office may be of an order fixt, not to be lifted.\\nYet you born to rise you must therefore ascend in the open,\\nA new figure in ether, while routinists wonder and envy.\\nEmbracing the fate of the desk-bound and sourly admiring.\\nLet us quit the queer magnification diurnal of trifles\\n^nd think of the loss had Charles Dickens staid always reporter.\\nMy politics are not theocratic, but my views only godly\\nBy the personal standard of Cromwell, or Lincoln, or Washington\\nI hope that you grasp the wide range of this triple divergence,\\nFor no other three men of one race had less personal resemblance.\\nIf God intended republics to live as asylums,\\nI humbly go on my knees to both God and republics,\\nSince my scheme, if I had one, would be the scheme of the generous\\nThe word comes from genus, you know reflect on its meaning.\\nWhich is not that rich permit poor to live by their dictum.\\nThere is a queer little thing of surprise in republics\\nMen seem to worry so much in the love of their countries.\\nThey love not like monarchists, solidly, careless of windhorns,\\nThe patria a quiet fact not requiring their brassbands.\\nThe fife, drum and trombone of the private and public ambition.\\nYet I do love their breeziness as I found it in Chili.\\nPerhaps God intended them for asylums and empires.\\nThe asylum being built on the drawing power of space empty,\\nAnd the empire-part on gratuitous grasping ambition\\nSuch as drove Britain all over the world as a planter,\\nWith this difference, that Britain needed the space for the planting.\\nHow slowly our race becomes wise, learning what it should bet on\\nAnd Britain, I fear, is betting big confidence falsely\\nAnd I shall not defend nor excuse if therein I bet falsely\\nIf my fear be baseless, glad shall I be to proclaim it.\\nWhat is giant prosperity worth if it lead you to worry\\nIn this lavish love of your country and pride in its fortune\\n157", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "Thou shalt not covet, whether republic or kingdom,\\nThough manifest destiny impel ye to civilize others.\\nYet burn not with love of your country for others possessions\\nLet each nation establish a college of ethics for patriots\\nWhere the selfish stentors of public rage may learn justice.\\n156.\\nShall I not rail at the ill in republic or kingdom\\nI will There is tone as distinguished from wealth, there is morals,\\nBoth genuine yet if the public desire them for business.\\nThere is true independence unbought by the cash of the commonwealth,\\nLike that of William Pitt, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster.\\nWhere is the man who dare spout against true independence\\nOr high mind proud to pay its own wav for the honor and glory\\nLet him stand up and be counted in meeting indignant\\nThe inkshed of possibilities does not concern us\\nWhen we know by possession and contrast how different the values.\\nThe citizens in mass-meeting assembled have spoken;\\nThey have passed resolutions their gist I have put in this canto.\\n157-\\nSelect your candidate solely as qualified wcalsman;\\nLet his income slide the bigger it is the more narrow\\nFor the popular cause will be the mind of its owner.\\nSenator Hill said the social life of his capital,\\nWherein money vies loudly, mixes the minds of the statesmen.\\nHill was abused for this truth as a snappy old bachelor,\\nBut I take this occasion to praise him for showing his colors.\\nMoreover, that Senator might have been rich, and he is not.\\nHe seemed to have positive preference for mere public duty\\nOver private gain, idle functions and blandishments vapid.\\nHe does not need my praise this book needs his example\\nOf democracy as Father Jefferson practised it.\\nShall the sleep that duty needs lack respect with a people\\n1S8", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "Because richly gowned women wish statesmen to stand at their elbows\\nWhile electric lights quintuple the dazzle of diamonds?\\nBy their fruits ye shall know them trees, men and political systems,\\nAnd the women who, ill-gowned or well, build the systems or wreck them.\\nWhy is mine enemy less of a patriot than I am.\\nWhy less justified from the point of view of his country?\\nTis not patriotism, but the right or the wrong of the question.\\nIf he see not the line, just tell him your sabre is sharpened,\\nAnd ask him to arbitrate as he fingers the edge of it.\\nArbitration perhaps adds new sword for the conflict of nations.\\nT wait to see who will be luckiest in the swing of it.\\nIn the long swing of long wind not required in the forums,\\nIn those forums where luck makes the law and no luck must obey it.\\nOnce you settle on politicians a system of government,\\nThey will constantly struggle to put more politics into it,\\nMore than is useful, more than belongs to it naturally,\\nAnd therefore leading to schemes unwise and superfluous.\\nSometimes criminal, but paid always by taxing the people\\nWhom these gentlemen of the makeshift drag in by devices.\\nBut the peculiar luck of this son of expediency\\nIs that others pay for his fun and call him a patriot.\\nBut his luck, not the less, is the curse of those who exburse for it.\\nThey live but to muddle and multiply let us shun them\\nLet us clarify and simplify for a contrast.\\n158.\\nGive me him who says what he means and says not till he means it,\\nWho knows what he means and the hour he intends to perform it.\\nCease repeating the chances you give for the pardon celestial.\\nYou are in business called great that is, in your business.\\nTry mine, and your greatness will jump from the dock for its failure\\nOr I will try yours, and die burnt with the shame of my fiasco.\\nIt is our business to learn the true meaning of business.\\nAnd that experts in one are poor amateurs in another.\\nTry to settle this fact in your mind and spare good people s feelings\\n159", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "iWho know that they know what you do not, and you what they do not.\\nGreater than poet the cook, for she placates the stomach.\\nThe organ that placates another to suffer the poet.\\nGreater than Jacob the dentist he stoppeth the toothache,\\nIn its rage defiant of patriarchal injunction.\\nGreater than statesman the court-fool he makes more men happy,\\nOften softening the temper that tends to break treaties unwisely.\\nThe satirist is the surgeon-general of politics\\nHe dissects and shows genius up an electrified manikin.\\nFrom Solomon to Sam Tilden what sage was an optimist\\nSpeaker Tom Reed called a statesman a dead politician\\nA wonderful epigrammarian and more is Tom Speaker.\\nHe who lacks repute finds difficulty with the publisher;\\nHe who has much finds the publisher slow to admit it\\nHe who bothers with readers dies like Dumaurier and Westcott.\\nTheir interests clash with the clang of a million of hautboys.\\nThus, how shining soever your merits, tis hard to be happy.\\nV/hat signified reward to Prometheus or to Columbus\\nAll that fire has created and ravaged has paid not the glory\\nWherewith fire as a possible force vivified the first titan.\\nNor could contineruts in fee simple remunerate the later.\\n159-\\nI would like to make Governor Clark of Arkansas immortal.\\nI expect honest lawyers to praise me for what I am saying.\\nThat pop-sovereignty peoples make laws is merely a fictioru\\nLaw jobs are put up, and electors free vote to confirm them.\\nIn free country no fun is so fine as to roast the Palladium.\\nWhy should the shyster have private power of subpoena\\nWith penalty for contemipt of court if you scorn him,\\nThough no court ever judged of his malice nor saw the subpoena?\\nThat is strictly arresting by warrant without a court-process.\\nNo other trick played is so low on the citizen s freedom.\\nThe Shah of Persia, barbarian, would scorn to descend to it.\\nA subpoena ought to be issued the same as a warrant\\n160", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "That is, by a court and not by ten thousand practicians.\\nThis is no personal complaint I have not been arrested.\\nIs every attorney both judge of the court and a bailiff\\nAs to ordering arrest and executing the order?\\nThere is no law, said Governor Clark of Arkansas,\\nAddressing a graduating class intending to practice it.\\nBrave Clark, I can never shout up to the height of your merit\\nSomething else stirs the popular mind let it win your attention\\nThe citizen s right to respect in the duty of witness.\\nThe despotism of the bench and browbeating forensic\\nAre rankly offensive to subjects who cherish their freedom,\\nAnd in some whom they anger incite to suppressio veri.\\nIiiiidgine a court keeping back what it tries to elicit!\\nLet the patriot quit screaming and tranquilly try to reform this.\\nThe rights o man are not lost in the box testimonial\\nRemember this, lawyer and judge in your manners o John s reign.\\nNot alone more wise in his rights is a witness, but freer\\nIn the lights of this age, which is not that of menace and stultus,\\nIn opinion of those who live not out of corporate dividends.\\nTo enslave a man neither quickens his conscience nor binds it.\\nThis is psychological talk, high above courthouse jargon.\\nMore in accord with the freedom and rights of the subject,\\nAnd designed to sustain the dictum of Clark of Arkansas.\\nTo provoke declaratio falsi suppresses your purpose.\\nThe truth is, our laws are due to the ages called middle\\nCombined with the syndicate section that governs our era.\\nThus putting the double feudalism on top of us\\nOf caste and capital and yet, O God, how free we are\\nTo tell of our freedom How our double-barons laugh at us\\nThey are free from all fear when they hear us shout of our freedom.\\nLaws are often terribly wrenched to the whims of the moments\\nWherein clamor for justice means passion for personal oblation,\\nThe Pharisee s shriek for a sacrifice to his virtue.\\nIn such case I should think manly men would be tired of administering them\\nNot proud of the duty of mere penological agents.\\n161", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "i6o.\\nDo you admire what is homogeneous in finance,\\nProvoking- fiscal debate by the mile acrimonious\\nExclude the products of paupers, but welcome the paupers\\nWith gates open so fast that hydraulic power cannot shut them.\\nThe Lord loveth a cheerful giver of cosy asylum\\nWho hopeth no other reward than a satisfied conscience.\\nHe searcheth the heart till he findeth the ultimate motive,\\nBut how yourn protecteth the earner except in low wages\\nNo one else seeth. Doth your labor get wealthy so quickly\\nThat it needeth a legal restraint against rich men s excesses?\\nRequireth it regeneration by aliens and paupers?\\nThe efifect of the open gates is more obvious on dividends.\\nCannot your workingmen see the dividend end of it?\\nThat is, how the end which they grasp is forged to deceive them.\\nOr is it obvious only to asses and aliens\\nPick out the wit and heave out the apostle Bill Fatv/it,\\nWho stuffeth the welkin with guff in behalf of the opulent.\\ni6i.\\nA want of the age is new phrases for higher expression,\\nMutually raising the thought and being lifted by it;\\nEasing thought as a process, and more inspiring to thinkers,\\nSwift, symmetric and fluent to quicken the thinker s expression,\\nYet in form to impress both the ear and the mind of the people.\\nFeudalism survives in language and laws let us cast it\\nPhrase without form cannot live, but form is its own phrase,\\nAnd would be creative of phrase if words were forgotten\\nA phase of phrasing which grammars are not apt at raising.\\nThe old stone gods toss no terms, yet the greatest of poets\\nHave filled not the soul with such beauty so long and so often,\\nThough some of them vainly strove to be gods by describing them.\\nPast ideals surrender to Venus, Diana, Apollo,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Or win by the standards evolved by the genii of Kronos.\\n162", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "They affirm the dominion of form in the temple of silence,\\nMutely disdainful, defiant of speechman or poet.\\nThe new fellows seem not up to surpassing the old ones.\\nBut this question is mixt, and I care not to mix myself with it.\\nI observe no successor to Sophocles nor to Bryant,\\nAnd if I may take the publishers word, none is wanted.\\nBy the way, why does any one write, why does any one publish\\nSome son of the gods from idyllic Olympus a truant\\nShould furnish new phrase for a razzle and lock the old poets,\\nSo as to encourage new men of letters and publishers,\\nNew phrase-forms or ideas, or go home and be spanked for his truancy.\\n162.\\nAn idea that is great importeth one that is greater,\\nFor the greatness of God makes exhaustion merely suggestive.\\nManifest destiny. My Syndicate, and ideal expansion\\nAs well as geographic, are ever my themes of insistence.\\nAn idea that suggests the exhaustion of him who conceived it\\nCarries a morgue effect on the ethical system.\\nTo the strenuous composers of music, distinct from melodic,\\nI commend this thought, and to poets who fondle a vision\\nAs though they expected no second chance at conception.\\nBut tis hard to be wholly sustained in a great composition.\\nIf you be unforgiving and bitter toward the unequal\\nIn a work of high purpose, whether as reader or critic.\\nTry to surpass him and then you may beg your own pardon.\\nDo not dig in your mind for the spring of your inspiration\\nWait till, like a geyser of ether, it pour through an inkhorn.\\nSpontaneity means sustension of theme nothing else does.\\nDo not write against space let space wait till your genius boils over\\nThen the reader will say that your work is redundantly equal.\\n162^.\\nAnglo-Saxon has loomed and been boomed since some seventy millions\\nOf millionaires licked seventeen millions of bankrupts non-Saxon,\\n163", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "With Our Navy holding- up Europe to help them to victory.\\nThis wonderful Anglo sect set a-foot a republic\\nAnd invited all sects and sectarians to share in its benefits.\\nNone so lowly nor low as to be fitly marked for exclusion\\nProvided his skin should be white other skins must be native.\\nThe guests went by millions. Would that republic be luckier\\nAs homogeneously Saxon, or as compositely polyglot?\\nThose not of this Saxon descent, but living by language,\\nCommon law and statute of England, repudiate the Saxonism\\nWhich glorifies them in beneficence hopeless from others.\\nSince all others who tried failed to radiate the beneficence.\\nHere is nature s vastest manifestation of gratitude!\\nPonder bethink saturate yourself with the circumstance\\nThe polyglotters o freedom estopt not that commonwealth\\nFrom becoming imperial by drift if not by intention.\\nNeither England nor Britons unmixt there could have done worse with it.\\nOr better; tis whether your preference be freedom or empire,\\nAs the two have been shouted within that divided democracy.\\nThe moral, I ween, is that politics are debasing\\nWhen they try to limit expansion to satisfy freedom,\\nOr make liberty consistent with empire unwilling.\\nNot of system or name is this cause, but wholly of nature.\\nAnthropological science alone can save governments\\nFrom crime or mistake, moral law being condition integral\\nOf such science, and of politics not; and there is the wrecking-point.\\nI indicate humbly the fact will you mend it or end it.\\nOr admit human government hopeless without false pretences\\n163.\\nWhen a man is in all things so great as to be a great poet\\nHe should shed the great bard and combine for career of more profit.\\nWhy should he worry and waste himself out with the Muses?\\nThere are always nine chances to one that the bard will be jilted.\\nIf you know of another dalliance so futile, pray print it.\\nyEschylus might have been king had he not been great poet.\\n164", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "He fought at Marathon, Salamis and Plataea,\\nAnd ashore or afloat was an adept in serving his country\\nAs adept as he with a pint of Celt blood or two gallons,\\nThe Celt, the most chronic of patriots, no matter whose country.\\nLikewise for tragedy and trilogy he took prizes.\\nBut Sophocles beat him at last when Marraska and envy\\nDrove him to tale-telling out of the school that was tragic,\\nOr to forming new school with himself as the hero and victim,\\nThus making him of his peril-won honors oblivious.\\nHe blew on the women and mysteries of Eleusis,\\nWhereby he went near to surpass in himself his Prometheus.\\nTheri he volunteered as an exile for sake of appearance,\\nThe Greek way of appearing not to need to be exiled.\\nWhereas he should have staid home and done chores Demosthenic,\\nShould have made himself the iconoclast of the fetiches.\\nPaving new ways for the mind with the heads of the humbugs.\\nBut at Gela he sulked in clime ardent and clear and Sicilian,\\nAnd he brooded and sat in the sun v/ith a jug of Marraska,\\nSorry that being a poet had kept him from being a greater.\\nRegretting too late his devotion, misplaced while resplendent.\\nSorry for what might have been, and that is the acme of sorrow\\nOn a lawn by a forest encircled sitting in solitude.\\nImmortal remorse graven at threescore-and-ten on his features.\\nAs we know by a likeness which Attic art only could leave us.\\nUnless some sly fiend cut his name on the bust of another,\\nNoble his head, bald, and notable for a poet.\\nSince the bard-head is often inverse to the size of its genius.\\nAn eagle aloft mistook it for something much harder.\\nAnd without either notice or malice dropped on it a turtle.\\nSad, Marraskan and tragical end of the great tragic poet\\nHad he made himself otherwise great he would have known better\\nAnd had won a crown which had hidden his own from the eagle,\\nDoubling his age as the friend of the gods with Marraska,\\nThe sole wine divine, which they shipped him from Chios to Gela,\\nNever dreaming, I deem, the last scene with the pinion-borne tortoise,\\nSince tis part of omniscience to see not the things it approves not.\\n165", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "164.\\nCan you namie a big art that is not made a bigger by patrons,\\nOr an art that drops not from its primacy in their absence,\\nFrom the Httle Greek states through the popes to a late Duke of Weimar\\nA muster-roll of high genii fromi Phidias to Goethe\\nAttests, but their names might deprive my long lines of inflection,\\nOr the sound with the sense which, if any, should roll in the numbers.\\nMoreover, I am not an encyclopedia gratuitous.\\nGoethe was great, if the Alemans wish us to think so.\\nAlthough to write Faust needs a character close to Mephisto;\\nAnd some of his conduct Mephisto would hardly descend to,\\nWhose greatness consisteth in minimizmg his failure,\\nThis ubiquitous No in the scheme that succeeded creation.\\nI regret the degree of the evolution Teutonic,\\nIndeed, as I sometimes reflect how the Deutschers adore him,\\nReferring to Goethe, you know, not the friend of his hero.\\nHis disciples reciprocate this with the pity Germanic.\\nThere will never be in this country a cult of such genius.\\nThe devil does well enough here without cultivation\\nAnd without commending the poets who best comprehend him.\\nBut I am sinful myself and would not be censorious,\\nThough I see not why Goethe should ridicule the Almighty,\\nSince the second cause cannot discuss with the first on one level.\\nTell us, Pride of the Germans, something not found in your Faust-fun:\\nWhy should the finite seek to encircle the infinite,\\nAnd lapse to sardonics as soon as it fails of its purpose\\nGreat or little, Goethe was due to that old Duke of Weimar,\\nHis Columbus who spared him the early base fate of Charles Dickens.\\n165-\\nEcclesiastes am I, well of age in my cycle.\\nThe high-priest of freeing the mind, wishing you may go higher\\nAnd be your own pontifex there is nothing else in it.\\nRight is as we see it, and wrong they are not on their merits.\\n166", "height": "2756", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "Absolutism, democracy, socialism, the numerous religions,\\nIndividualism, altruism, corporationism or modern methods,\\nKeep the sacred and secular turnpikes that lead us to happiness,\\nBut we all quarrel so by the way that nobody gets there.\\nIf I could perceive the right as it is and enforce it.\\nNot centennial should be the crown of my life, but millenial.\\nOnce I might scape the calvarium provided for prophets\\nWho dare to foresee, for whom systems existent are bogus.\\nThe blame is not mine that I lived, since I dodged not a missile.\\nHfred himself lately sneered that this world is unworthy my graces\\nThe boy, young enough for my grandson, makes me a funblock.\\nGreat age should make way for fresh youth tis the rule of his people.\\nWhere grave problems, reduced to fun-terms, find solution in laughter.\\nHe is one of a type that big money is making too common,\\nAnd that little money, ere long, will make mighty uncommon.\\nSatiation Neronic sO puts him in need of sensation,\\nHe would turn Torquemada in order to stay in the funring.\\nRelatively nothing was worse in the days that were paynim.\\nWealth develops the personal side, and ignores all the other sides.\\nExceptions prove the rule mine are bursting with evidence,\\nThough all in our race would not fill up one page in its history.\\nLove of denial goes with riches here is a chance for it,\\nFor several long and lawyer-like butts in rebuttal.\\nThe gentleman was not invented till after the Caesars\\nTheir blood, rich in other productions, omitted this species.\\nBut one there was who anticipated the standard.\\nI refer to Maecenas, a Roiman rich man and commander.\\nNo canonized Christian, so far as I know, has surpassed him.\\nThough Lord Dorset of William the Third may survive as his equal.\\nInfer not a canonized Dorset, but one who deserved to be,\\nMaecenas wasted no wealth on the platitude-temples,\\nBut by singling out special genii became an immortal.\\nThe Augustus of private life and the honors of civism.\\nNot field nor sea-gifted, like Scipio or Marcus Vipsanius\\nNot a sculptor nor poet nor painter like several eternized,\\nHe gave lustre like Horace and Virgil to Rome and all ages,\\n167", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "And glorified us with what genius, not learning, created.\\nThese early great things, due Maecenas, made later things easier.\\nOur honor is to be learned in some of his proteges.\\nSave for him, many grand patriae-glorise would have gone stillborn,\\nPrecurrent numen of type of a later acceptance,\\nThough the modern ideal omits the best traits of the Latin.\\nBut fate has a faith in some men who lack faith in the fateful.\\nI kick not at the gibe nor the nibs of my Cardinal Giltveal,\\nThough I might; having been little flattered or spared in my journey.\\nCan I sharpen the wit of a friend? Why, if so, I am mirthful.\\nMay I furnish some fun in old days The Lord send me the chances\\nAm I the chump of false friends Even such Edmund Burke was.\\nMock me well while I last I may not amuse you forever.\\nI love the people well no man loves them trulier.\\nNor more sympathizes with popular systems and struggles,\\nWhen the millionaire-gog or the poor-gog perverts not their formulas.\\nIf I call them the children gf God and the heirs of his glory,\\nYou will say some one else said it first but why don t you work on it\\nWhy dedicate it to eloquence only, not practice\\nWhat sect would revive a John Knox as Prometheus of Duty\\nThe modern fangles as substitutes for staid morals\\nPerish one by one like empirical panaceas,\\nYet you turn into fun all you cannot turn into money,\\nWhether it come from the publisher, pulpit or theatre,\\nTill the true man is he void of creed he at least has the room for one.\\nIf vox popuU be vox dei, to what purpose the deus\\nThe phrase in itself involves a sharp self-contradiction\\nVox populi vox suae et generis sui.\\nIf the great human mind had been worked as its author intended,\\nThe newest great thing to be said would have long been a platitude.\\nIf ascension depend on society as we know it,\\nI leave you ^o contemplate yourself as an optimist\\nTo derive your delight from that source, while I look for another.\\n168", "height": "2816", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "i66.\\nImmortal fun being the ultimate aim of My Comedy,\\nI subjoin a god-politic instance nautic and Thalian.\\nLyseus, deliverer from care, was a name of Dionysus,\\nWho is followed and worshipped and loved best as Bacchus the vine-god,\\nYet mayhap not so much for the vine as its product libative.\\nBut he has not always appeared to mankind as Lyaeus\\nHe sometimes seemed filled with contempt for himself in that character,\\nAs might be inferred when filled up with the pleasures of Bacchus.\\nOne day he conceived the idea of going a-yachting.\\nAnd freakishly chose as companions some pirates Tyrrhenian.\\nThey were true to their trade, not caring to know the care-chaser,\\nAnd with instinct professional instantly thought about ransom.\\nLeaving Icaria astern with straight course set for Naxos,\\nThe Tyrrhenian gentry quick loaded their new friend with slave-links,\\nDevoting him unto bondage should ransom default them.\\nThen Lyseus took care to be very like some other fellow.\\nHe tipped the wink to the chains and they fell from his ankles.\\nSince a wink is as sharp as a file to the links on a god s leg.\\nThen he paced the poop-deck with grand mien as a lion commanding\\nNot only the ship or a fleet, but the whole of Tyrrhenia,\\nAnd sent a deep-growling, famished bear into the forecastle.\\nNot freed from care but to consternation delivered,\\nThe sailors rushed wildly on deck, where they found masts and rigging\\nSuddenly serving as vine-poles, with grapes grown autumnal,\\nSeptember grapes prone for the press, while nymphs playful and tuneful\\nChanted an ode to the ship which entirely becalmed her.\\nThe sailors jumped overboard, dazed into loss of their senses,\\nFrom the vineyard-yacht and menagerie run by a lion.\\nThey did not drown, but were happily formed into dolphins.\\nThe enchanted and elegant fish which are favorites of Thaumas,\\nAnd which are restored to the sea when the fishermen net them\\nBecause dolphins are grateful and into the nets drive the tonni.\\nBlessed be gratitude, freedom of dolphins and commerce\\nAnd sailors are certainly freer as dolphins than sailors,\\n169", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "And inspectors of customs associate. I ween, not with dolphins.\\nUnawares those tars fooled with a god but I point not the moral.\\nA tale that tells not its own tale is too thin for adorning.\\nDionysus was friendly with Neptune, so Nep lent him sailors,\\nWhom in very slim friendship he put upon duty eternal\\nAnd in vacht of those suicide-pirates transformed into dolphins\\nLyreus. deliverer from care, sailed on care-free to Naxos.\\nThere Bacchus found Ariadne, the beauty deserted.\\nWhom he changed from the bride of Theseus to that of Lyceus,.\\nDelivering her promptly from care as to future subsistence,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2A fate in which uniform luck follows not second spouses.\\nFor panoplied pride give me her who has captured a lover\\nAnd the most self-satisfied creature in myths or carnalities\\nIs the nude Ariadne, riding the panther of Theseus,\\nTamed for her promenade by the hero Ionian\\n\\\\\\\\liom she previously tamed, and who later resented the bondage..\\nYet women admire not the men who are fools for their prizes\\nThev pity them, wishing them not the less lovely, but stronger,\\nAs though to resist fascination yet ever pursue them.\\nPraising Julius. Cleopatra covered a sneer at Antonius\\nThough more to be loved, if less praised, was the rebel of Actium,.\\nWho claimed the Herculean descent and looked worthy the honor.\\nBut Lvasus he summoned his boonest aboard of both sexes,\\nWhereat ever}- two did pair on as a bride and a lifegroom,\\nWhen began the truly immortal of yachting excursions.\\nImmortal in fun not alone in Tyrrhenia but elsewhere\\nExcursion where prizemug alone had excited new laughter.\\nFor laughter was large in those days, and mug not yet imagined\\nImmortal because they have sailed on to this day from Naxos.\\nAnd will sail through all eras and seas, godlike victims of yachting\\nIn a phantom dead beat to the windward of all who hunt trophies\\nFor the politics wise and just of care-chaser Lynsus\\nas to chase away care from himself and companions forever.\\nPan as their steward had laid all the gods under tribute.\\nSo that nothing was wanting nor missing for voyage never-ending\\nOf a vessel that has not been since seen at sea nor in harbor,\\n170", "height": "2816", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "For no glimpse of their fun might be caught by low tars nor dull landsmen,\\nThe orders of being most scorned by true pirates and yachtsmen.\\nThus Buccaneer-Bacchus-Dionysus-Lyaeus grew yachtgod,\\nMore triumphant than Rodney the weather-gage prizeman, or Jervis,\\nAnd without the unpleasant red decks of Les Saintes or Saint incent.\\nNot even all gods can prolong without cloying a festival,\\nBut Bacchus grew great in a fate that would sate Musagetes,\\nAnd communicated his zest to his boomers undying.\\nThe honeymonths ran into honeyyears not to be numbered.\\nThe Tyrrhenian sun arose only to gild a new pleasure,\\nThe 2^Iediterranean moon to light up a new caper.\\nE\\\\CT. the twins of the gates of sleep forgot functional duty,\\nVigilant of the fun, since the sports of the god do not weary.\\nWhat of the gods if all goddesses were as Artemis?\\nThe daughter and son of Latona might fight on the principle,\\nOr account be requested of Zeus of hiatus incredible.\\nBut I close, vowing nothing else like it in yachting nor politics.\\nThe best scenes from the fun-stage may not be transferred unto paper.\\nAlas for the point where the poet dares not be descriptive!\\n167.\\nThe duet of a swan and a dolphin unites two big empires\\nIn entente as long as the song; but if one dive for white-bait\\nAnd the other chase sturgeon, duet and entente are suspended\\nTill appetite apathetic restore them to singing\\nTill interests appeased and no new ones rewake them to music\\nWhere no strain is attached to a word from the Northeast Pacific.\\nTherefore swim deep, O ye whitebait, and far, O ye sturgeon.\\nAnd be satisfied, O ye interests, and sleep to this hymnal,\\nThat the singers untempted subsist on their own inspiration,\\nWhile the interesting nations enchanted forget to be touchy.\\n168.\\nTo treat a topic seriatim does not strengthen it\\nNot necessarily examine your disposition\\n171", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "Or force at the moment bright things are dull to a headache.\\nContinuity is more exigent than impressive,\\nNo matter the splendors, if long enough to oppress you.\\nThe question is one of tiring of blackmail in Egypt,\\nOr of ingratitude for pouring oil on your seaways,\\nOf holding one Continent up while your ships skirted others.\\nRecur with delight has more value than boredom of duty.\\nOr the long drawn insistence which poseth in some minds as logic.\\nThis explains my design of appearing a trifle inchoate.\\nSymmetry may be sacrificed for new pleasure without it.\\n169.\\nHow rich soever you grow, become not an agnostic.\\nThat is a luxury wholly too dear for a Plutus.\\nYou may think it is not, but the judgment is deeply mistaken.\\nNot those dying of hurry, but those whose spare time is three-quarters\\nOf their waking lives, are the people whom you must satisfy.\\nSuch only are thinkers, and mighty sincere in conviction\\nThey may also be narrow but that is because they are human.\\nIndependence was once proportioned to wealth, but no longer.\\nThe proletariat is too close on the proprietariat.\\nYet nobody seems to see how it may get any nearer.\\nWhile the man with the most has the same advantage as ever,\\nAnd the man with too much is the fellow who needs your compassion.\\nNo species of union seems to get either away from him.\\nA million a year for him who can manage two hundred\\nIs offered of course on impossible terms but it sounds grand,\\nAnd impresses the tramps with the frightful burden of riches.\\nBut not one of the brood of Plutus cuts up his fortune\\nRather every one so manages as to augment it.\\nThough prone to pay annual pile to be eased of such burden.\\nThere is some affectation here, but it will not last always.\\nAfter the mass shall catch on to the curves of possession\\nOf the ensconced minority, a great change will touch us.\\nPlutus cannot afford to defy the old moral order\\n172", "height": "2816", "width": "1920", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "Through new years, unless he can change the old moral order.\\nMeanwhile let him capture the sources of government moral.\\nIn a church the mernbership would be proud of his riches\\nThey would speak of them oft if he might not scatter them broadcast,\\nWhereas if he scattered there would not be any to speak of.\\nThe rich man who gave all he had will never be mentioned,\\nAnd a chance he may find for enlarging the eye of the needle.\\nIf I draw from the welkin ideas, is it waste of high labor?\\nIf I shovel them up from inverted dome, will you grasp them\\nYes the good time is coming any fellow may sing of it.\\nThough none can tell when it will catch us there will then be no anarchy,\\nNor threats of it, but society ordered and graded\\nTo please the anarchists who would otherwise capture it.\\nTo-day s fever will then have burned itself out, and its victims\\nAnd the law of the fittest survival at last will be justified\\nEven to those demons of query the gods of conundrum.\\nThis is a brief psycho-plutological canto\\nOf new music, requiring some time for the ear to accept it.\\nComposers differ on themes, as virtuosi on instruments.\\nAnd peoples agree not on measures of verse, nor on organs.\\nFor all instrumients are organs in meaning organic.\\nSome admire the cornet and the snare-drum, but give me the fiddle.\\nWhich prolongs from the stage to the stars a straight note or a tremolo.\\nBrass is both ardent and burnished in Wagner and Talos,\\nAnd Bellini sang while Tancioni scored notes of his arias.\\nDonizetti favored the strings of the cat, like a poet.\\nAnd the dulcet key-tubes which require but the orphic inflation\\nInstead of the wind which expands in the horns of the sound-storm.\\nHomer, Pynq Bhuttun and Thomson prefer the hexameter\\nAs an undulous means of alleviating giant conceptions.\\nAnd I favor fonetik spelling it would lose to the future\\nThe works not worthy preserving, while those of high value\\nWould be fonetized for fresh days in this scheme there is money\\nFor new authors, publishers and fonetik professors.\\nAnd by far the most feasible means of sound purging of letters.\\nI am not a reformer, remember but you might become one.\\n173", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "170.\\nThe newest man is the great with a great many women.\\nThe trait is not bad, although chances you find not to Hke it,\\nAnd in such situation the moral law offers no comfort.\\nBut the circle of joy for the women is ever expansive;\\nIf you perish, Cleopatra calls forth a fresh Marcus Antonius.\\nI have had my estate at the top, and was cut when they cut me.\\nBut I long ago learned this is part of the order of nature.\\nWhen a woman is born for a freak she is not to be constant\\nAnd should not be blamed take large view of the topic, and early.\\nThe earlier you drop to the fact the less you are lacerate.\\nSome freaks, while they do love, surpass the Blonde Tawny of Egypt.\\nThus you get it intense, brief and compact not drawled through a lifetime,\\nAnd twice in a lifetime, or oftener which varies the average.\\nI know not an equal example of strict compensation.\\n171.\\nYou are lost in love. I deplore, but I will not describe you.\\nDoes it seem that because you yearn to be true to one woman\\nWho has space in her soul for a score of such fellows, you selfish,\\nLoving her only for what she may add to your glory,\\nNot reflecting that in her view you are simple absorber.\\nThat she ought to sacrifice nineteen parts of her nature\\nTo endow the conceit of a burrowing love with the twentieth,\\nA mole-love that has burned its ground-way to her centre of radiance\\nUnjust twenty to one would she be not to radiate you from her,\\nTo burn on a prong of her light your mere ego-ambition.\\nAssenting or not, think this out ere you take to the bottle.\\nLet a woman remember a lover is always inferior\\nMan loves himself first, without room in himself for a woman.\\nIf he loves not himself, he is not worth a look from a woman.\\nAnd infatuation destroys her the day she denies this.\\nThus, in syllogism or outside it, love is a vacuum\\nAn estate of wile without air to inhale when you get there.\\n.My seventy-five years of past-youth observation confirm this.\\n174", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "172.\\nWhen you catch a great man, take him on for the worth of his calibre\\nSo far as it adds to the good of the state or his fellows\\nIn some tangible way, in some way which the world may take hold of.\\nLump not his defects with his service; you make a bad subject.\\nWho is just so much worse by the rank his achievements have given him,\\nBy condoning ten faults because chance caught one spark of his genius.\\nHe, omitting the chance, might have mouldered like millions ungifted;\\nUngifted, I mean, in the chance, which is part of the genius.\\nYou will find, on impartially reading the log of Columbus,\\nEven he stained himself with a lust for the gold of the Indios.\\nMaterialist as well as idealist was Columbus,\\nWitn i.^?d lumen-laden for any species of landfall.\\nThe talent to see the best side is the talent to win by.\\nOf what use is the merit that eddies not in with the winner?\\nIt might make you deep and incisive about Spain and Cuba,\\nThe States, and that contradiction in terms, Christian soldier.\\nDevils may fight in cause just and the gods be mistaken,\\nBut the arm of the Prince of Peace can in no case swing sabre.\\nChrist is impartial as soon as you open the picnic\\nOf blood, and his genuine soldier takes himself out of it.\\nReal faithful who touch it are commonly slandered, like Vandewater.\\nLet your moral courage appear in your reasons material\\nAnd choose winning men, and the world will be quick to support you.\\nNothing requires so much bravery as lifting the beaten.\\nHe might have been right, but he did not win out and our nature\\nCheers the admiral as though every throat were the winner s,\\nWhereas probably not three per cent, ever won one percentum.\\nThere is nothing Samaritan here. I admire Admiral Dewey\\nNot so much for his fight, though all admiration is lost on it,\\nAs for the strategy whereby he got into it\\nAnd his tactics in conducting it. The rest was not difficult\\nIn the circumstances, though quick and brilliant to dazzling.\\nBut there was nothing Christian that day at Manila.\\nA man truly Christian may float into battle-necessity,\\n175", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "But he will deplore the necessity, and think it more Christian\\nIf his God and his country put oft* the occasion of slaughter.\\n173-\\nMan is a shouter and writer and singer of weakness,\\nBut not of the true strength-dispensing remedies for it.\\nIn his most important relation he seems least successful,\\nIf success may be judged by net outcome instead of apology.\\nWedlock is matter of varied conviction and practice,\\nAnd therefore its secular base should be well comprehended.\\nThe fact that a man cannot live with a woman is nothing\\nAgainst him per se but hold fast to per se in this instance.\\nPrecisely the same is equally true of a woman.\\nI descant on the sphere where tis found you may chant from the other.\\nEither may have both the leaning and habit of virtues.\\nYet each be legitimately unfit for the other.\\nOr both may be more or less vicious, yet not incompatible.\\nNot the God who made human nature, but they who immade it,\\nAre due to explain, and to tell my omitted conclusions,\\nWhich belong to this world, and affiliate not with another.\\n174.\\nWherein is true strength Perhaps in propounding conundrums.\\nGreat force may appear in the treatment of feeble conceptions\\nA characteristic this of symposian intelligence.\\nTake a House debate of pure partisan rage for example.\\nOr a House far away in a hurry to back up Don Jingo,\\nSome statesmen are great by mere force of proclaiming the obvious,\\nWhich depends on the size of the mind needing light from the obvious.\\nTyndal and Chamberlain greatly dropt down to this duty\\nWhen majority smote the land with its pious imperceptions.\\nThese are typical men who must always find British successors\\nUnless Britain be destined for prey of such statesmen as Coqcourt.\\n176", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "If the Empire be worth prolonging, this type must prolong it.\\nI have examined all types that explains my insistence.\\nI have studied them closely around the globe, and you have not,\\nSo I pray you in conscience, reconsider your premises\\nAs to high moral men standing equal with graspers imperial\\nThey crack bottles whenever they read a high moral oration.\\nSince it weakens the British Empire so much in their favor.\\nWho would let us alone if sure it would pay to attack us?\\nThere is nothing to eat in symposian-millenial ideas!\\nAnnihilate them as destructive of national subsistence\\nA province let go would be instantly tariffed against us\\nThis is so self-evident that it bores one to say it.\\ny^^ Britain alone either can be or dare be freetrader,\\nDespite the fact that all tariffs are fixt to corral her.\\nNeeds and events, not theories and teachers, breed patriots.\\nAbstractions pushed too far against needs might make traitors.\\nAristotle labored to make Alexander a patriot\\nA mere vulgar bummer and conqueror came of the lessons.\\n175-\\nThere is a danger-point of mistaking your prestige\\nFor the popular will. The fact that you did some great service.\\nProvided you did, though some half of the people deny it.\\nSets you not above all fellow-subjects on every state project.\\nYour unwidening cranium holds not the horizon of wisdom,\\nNo matter the size of your hat nor the height of your forehead.\\nYou are now at the period of wreckage from phrenic expansion\\nIn a vessel too little to limit the swell of the cargo.\\nIf your prestige inflame minority into majority\\nWhen, on mere merits, the measure could never be carried,\\nYour prestige works evil, though your vanity may not admit it.\\nIn no other respect the example of old Cincinnatus\\nSo impresses me as in freedom from Roman big caput.\\n177", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "176.\\nNo conscience, no morals, no vices and plenty of money,\\nWhat is to hmder him who has them from being happy?\\nAnd if he be happy, why should he not be a model\\nA villain would almost do for a model, if happy.\\nDo you know of a declaration that guarantees happiness,\\nOr the next thing to it, the right to pursue it forever\\nProposition safe not inviting misuse or excesses,\\nSince the winners are so few they discourage sequation.\\nHappy he who finds satisfactory reward in the long run\\nI am old enough to call many runs this is my longest\\nA lifelong, long chase with the goal still just over the border.\\nBut I have diverged from another sort of a fellow.\\nNo struggle, no poignancy, perfect in circumspection.\\nNo feeling except the indifference required to be neutral,\\nNo temptation beyond the chronic instinct of grasping.\\nIf you speak of an agonized mind, that most dread of afflictions,\\nHe smiles, as if asked to partake of a rum-sour of Santa Cruz.\\nDo you call him a scion of evolution or progress,\\nThis youth whom we hope may expire by his own limitation,\\nA foreign metropolite in pre-Raphaelite pigments.\\nSo lacking exemplar he is a new species in nature\\nAnd art, with morals in dough, to whom luck gave his raiment.\\nWhom a rise in the price of his credit-bought stock saved from bankruptcy?\\nBetter sin and repent and repeat than to be such a pastepot\\n177.\\nKjO not horseback in style nor ascend nor alight from your chariot\\nIn manner excitant of envy in poor men and better.\\nYour principal pleasure is that of exciting and snubbing.\\nYou whom this hits and fits, you like it not, but read it.\\nYou will do this once too oft then your horses and wagons\\nWill all be for sale, with a notable absence of buyers,\\nFor your fellows thereat will desire to seem poorer than churchmice\\n178", "height": "2736", "width": "1961", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "In order to stave off the day of the social despoilment.\\nThis threat is not new, but the fashion in which I present it.\\nBut as rich airs condemned you, the pauper ones will not reprieve you.\\nThe mass know a sham is a sham while affecting agreement\\nUntil they unite in a policy sure to defeat you.\\nThis has often been tried, but the triumph seems far off as ever.\\nBut if the unwinning mass would recognize labor,\\nAbsolutely ignoring capital as being their enemy\\nAnd if this aggregate, as majority over minority,\\nAs the natural heirs of the earth, property being an artifice\\nThe mere recognition whereof w^as due to an error.\\nIf this mass would possess itself of the rights it was born to,\\nThen every known system, political, social, financial,\\nWould tumble and crumble, spite of me and mine adversaries.\\nTill the wealthy would eat their own gold in the rage of their hunger.\\nBut the friends of my youth, middle age and old age need not tremble.\\nMy great mass will no more do this now than when Moses was leader.\\nIn fact, they are further behind in my day than with Moses.\\nRespect for the rights of property now is a fetich\\nFor which Christians suffer in ways Israel never permitted.\\nThere are too many novels and poems this is an evangel,\\nA gospel of fun on your hating my country as patriot\\nWhile shirking tough problems at home to prove love of your country,\\nWhile I assail, incidentally, all sorts of systems.\\nBut the book-senemics, literary advisers of the print-publicans,\\nGowned-and-slippered and midnight-oiled for putting new lights out,\\nWould hear of the thing you are reading only to damn it.\\nBut let us discuss in a way that shall lead to solution.\\nIn spite of the gents midnight-oiled for extinguishing genius.\\nDiscussion that solves not is useless humiliation,\\nThough amusing to Editor Janus and selling his paper;\\nRolling the public mind in the taffy of irresolution\\nAs by Janus the Great, quondam friend of the late Mr. Grievely,\\nWhose jubilee special career was wind-frayed at its ending\\nIn the Amagansett gale from Montauk blown to Brooklyn.\\nGive human nature a rest from the making of pamphlets.\\n179", "height": "2736", "width": "1961", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "Discussion divided and Bismarck united the Germans.\\nThe educational horn from the top of its schoolhouse\\nIs blown by the press its primary task is to blow it,\\nThe earning- of dividend-money being merely an incident.\\nMaybe advanced speakers have shouted so much of advancement\\nThat I have unwittingly seized the control of their dicta.\\nThere is in the state something greater than free constitution,\\nAnd that is the power to amend it let us amend it.\\nLet us do something unconstitutional first, and then mend it\\nGod so loved the world that he gave it the means to be happy.\\nBut he dignified man by leaving him free to accept it,\\nAnd man in his gratitude takes a long time for decision\\nOn an eternal theme without temporal interest.\\nWe are none of us wrong, but all right on a different basis.\\nPhysical good taste is a great abettor of morals.\\nSome are Christianly right, and others not less so as heathen\\nBecause the press failed to wind the horn of the verities\\nWhen the wind blew their way they are not wrong, but innocent.\\nThe truth in their favorite printsheet arriving too tardy.\\nThen others in Christian radiance are wrongful perversely,\\nYet right, too their perversity being not crime, but misfortune.\\nSome are ists of the spirit but I am a simple carnalist\\nWithout spiritualistic trend to forbidden affinities.\\nI affiliate without the mask of occultism,\\nAnd in physical habits of living am not partiverous.\\nBut omniverous glad to get it and proud to digest it\\nOn my basis sounder than many young and univerous:\\nTis a new word for the fellows who live by one system.\\nWho begin by dyspepsia and grow to curative Mahomets.\\n178.\\nJudge not your friend by yourself in a circumstance similar.\\nSo to judge is a common and willing mistake, and injurious.\\nIf he ask your advice, bid him think to his private decision.\\nThere is more satisfaction in that than in failure and censure,\\n180", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "You should be just as careful about your advice as your money.\\nThink of his temperament, moral force and temptation\\nThe violin-gamut is as nothing to this combination.\\nYours may wholly unfit you to be his preceptor or keeper.\\nWhen moral force and temptation are each irresistible\\nAnd colossal, you are not strong enough for a buffer.\\nTis the buffing body again, and you are not in it.\\n179.\\nWhy do I w^rite To inspire some one else to do better\\nBetter by pen, voice or arm what care I for the manner\\nOr even by leg I am not yet too old for new ballet\\nWith coryphees flinging their figures in random symmetric.\\nNo man is great he may hap to be useful as agent,\\nAnd the chance for so much or so little as that comes but rarely\\nFrancis of Verulam was mainly inciter in science\\nThe slaves of high phrase have done much to misplace him in history.\\nThe true leader is he whose best gift is the genius of optimism.\\nYou can always remain on top by being an optimist.\\nWomen love only the men to whom all things are roseate,\\nWlio are up with success, who have ceased to be bothered with process.\\nWhen one optimism fails, be rapid to fondle another.\\nThis may be hard, but remember optimism is genius.\\nThe yearning heart puts the burning question who answers\\nFor the mioment none, but the question burns on until answered.\\nEven Webster s great speech, the Paradise Lost of orations\\nOn a union it could not save, set up war to regain it.\\nAnd that question verily burned four hard years until answered,\\nYears that hardened the doubts of those who lack faith in the system.\\nIf Lord Bacon could ask me what is the use of this thesis,\\nAristotle might ask him the social worth of Induction.\\nNothing abstract is useful that cannot be put in the concrete\\nFor the living advantage in some way of every one living.\\nThere is no such thing as too much when you get it distributed.\\nWith the utile we live, while we starve on the deep and the splendid.\\n181", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "Beef against dreams or beef-dreams whence we waken to profit.\\nWe prefer not to have a great man, but a sanctified average\\nWherein every person is prosperous, sleek and self-satisfied.\\nWhat shall we do to be saved? I mean in sense social.\\nWhat shall we do to be saved Appoint a commission\\nTo teach a royal commission what to investigate.\\nWhatsoever they do, some editor will be wiser.\\nSome judgment-day waif strayed away to forestall it by sections.\\nAnd we shall once more find the fun of airing the questions.\\nBurn all the old premises up in the new burning question.\\nAgree on the new ones and follow them out without flinching.\\nWhithersoever the logic lead, accept the conclusion.\\nThe longer you dawdle, the more you at last must surrender,\\nO ye to whom much was given and from whom will be taken\\nAll that you kept for yourselves while trustees for Another.\\n1 80.\\nBrotherhood of man is the hypocrite s tinkle of cymbal,\\nThe soundmg brass of the pharisee patriot parsonic,\\nIn its general acceptance. It hurts me to hurt your fine feeling s,\\nBut tis mere affectation to heap up the sanction privata\\nOn an universal fact about which you do nothing\\nUnless to build platforms whereon to palaver concerning.\\nThis should be read at a moment when conscience is topmost.\\nEleemosynaries are overdone abolish their causes.\\nWhy not use this money for endowments of silent beneficience\\nWhich shall touch individual needs at the moment requiring it,\\nInstead of eternally humming self-evident platitudes?\\nIn that the Psalmist, dead thousands of years, still excels you.\\nIf yO U cannot surpass him, can you not chant something novel\\nIs every prophet save Christ an organic charlatan,\\nThe evangelist of dogmatics masking the dollar,\\nBent only on massing his million while flaunting his ego?\\nIf you did not believe you should do something, you would quit talking.\\nThe design or device for the doing or dodging of duty\\n182", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "Is full proof that neither the mind nor the conscience is easy.\\nAll men are brothers simply because they can t help it\\nThey cannot escape uniformity of relation.\\nPerhaps if they could would do^ some twin good to each other\\nAs a substitute for the feeling of Cain toward Abel\\nWhich neutralizes the harmony of the brotherhood.\\nBetter deny murderer Cain as the second foreparent\\nThan be brothers descended from him by both pulpit and pamphlet,\\nBut deficient of funds in the Bank of the Garden of Eden.\\nFraternity among the elect is my passion\\nFraternity with eclat, inspiration and brio.\\n-Th-CD. why not elect everybody intO my union?\\nI would make demos as aristocratic as possible,\\nAnd a Bank of Eden bonus should go with election\\nAs an act of my twentieth-century syndication.\\ni8i.\\nIf you wish to be really great, rate your genius as soapfat.\\nSuppressing yourself ere you set yourself up for a wonder.\\nThis will teach you self-sacrifice, hardest of all tasks to master.\\nIf you do not, some publisher s reader will save you the trouble\\nBetter save him the trouble while saving yourself disappointment.\\nThe best books are those never printed the next are the accidents\\nWhich slip into type through a lapse in the high gift of safety\\nAmong these Rabelais and Quevedo, Suetonius and Byron.\\nShakespeare left his companio^ns to print him or leave him unprinted.\\nThe master of inwardness careless of fame or of plaudits.\\nIndifferent to wriggles at footlights or text mutilation.\\nWho had made his pile from his plays and gone home and was happy;\\nHappier living in well-stocked home than in crown of dead poet\\nWhose aureole waited a hundred years for the critics,\\nWho would steal a rainbow to braid with a panegyric.\\nOr festoon with sables your splendor, whichever come easier.\\nProud cynic, too proud even to woo the renown of the ages\\nA species of after-death father of stirpes transcendent,\\n183", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "Or parent of posthumous tongues that recalled him to glory.\\nSo Apollo the god and -^^sop the slave was a genius\\nAny one may possess, and it matters not what you may call it\\nAs to elasticity, the Monroe Doctrine keeps up with it\\nNarrow minds only are troubled to limit its meaning,\\nAs patriots are troubled to widen or limit Monroeism\\nOr to give it another name, which would simply mean genius,\\nOr Monroeism, when found, with the still indefinable essence\\nOf genius or the genius of James Monroe or George Canning.\\nI started this book for a ringer, and am only half through with it.\\nBut this praise is mere heaping of phrase upon William of Avon,\\nAs likewise it is on the god of high tone and the negro.\\nAnd on the gifted unknown who may grasp at their laurels.\\nThey are neither larger nor smaller for what I may say of them,,\\nAnd their lily of fame neath your inch-thick of pigment might wither,\\nAs might that of Monroe or of Canning, their Doctrine once settled.\\nI found a fair chance tO pile words, and I let myself loose on it.\\nThe glorious Avonian indifference to posterity\\nAlmost equals the worship of William by those who came later.\\nBut between you and me I have no great opinion of genius,\\nJudged by results, all the w^ay from Apollo to Cleveland.\\nIt may depend on Marraska, or result from peach brandy,\\nPamlico distillate being better than that of the Scio of Byron:\\nI have sampled both freely, am cognizant in the premises,\\nPetronius Arbiter of both Chesapeake and ^gean.\\nAnd Marraska is not a circumstance to Pamlico,\\nOr to little Delaware State, or the east shore, of Maryland.\\nI am grieved that its highest expressions but call for a higher.\\nThat its greatest achievements suggest me shortcomings long-legged\\nIn the supreme affair of content universal.\\nOr sectional as to Luzon, Venezuela, or Cuba.\\nIn this aspect, up to date, there is only negation.\\nGive us one complete man who shall lead to success all the peoples.\\nNot a faction to fiction, but every race up to the real,\\nSome Christ with a force of persuasion intense as his morals.\\nWhere no slaves shall pay taxes for privilege of building a hero\\n184", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "From some gory brute of the luck egotistic of flagdom.\\nAfter victory with him you will form a new notion of genius.\\n182.\\nAll things worthy to live shall be known and stay on. But who told you\\nIs accident, fortune or kismet the friend of worth only?\\nThought aflame and the rage of the Past made the zenith of Egypt\\nLurid when savage Omar lit the bonfire papyric\\nAnd smoked with contempt of its contents the Aboukir district.\\nThe magi deplore, though no magus can measure the void made.\\nWas it so vast Could the library longer be useful\\nMay be that the light cxf its fire was its brightest instruction\\nAnd that the future should thank the imperial incendiary.\\nPerhaps they were burned to compel us to seek new ideals.\\nNot a book in the lot had shown devotees how to be happy\\nUnless on the basis of making the best of bad bargain\\nAnd all literature since that day has been stuffed with such counsel.\\nIf the lost books were par v/ith the new ones, the future lost little\\nIn the mind-fire which reddened the aged brown frown of the pyramids.\\nChance is on top after all, and is somewhat facetious.\\nWas it chance or predestiny Let us stop the discussion.\\nMy lamps are not those of Melampus, nor are you Panoptes.\\n183.\\nOne of the tomes said that God is a union of chances\\nAnd that providence is such chances moving in union.\\nThus religion consists in adoring whatever is uppermost,\\nAs patriotism is adhering to the whim of the moment.\\nI have made up my mind, as I call it, and wish it were stronger.\\nThere will be nO genuine literature till some titan\\nAVhose physical health shall be part of his genius Promethean,\\nSome Hercules fused with Apollo, shall grasp every subject,\\nEliminate doubt, and anticipate every question,\\nTaking first the Irish and Papal out of discussion,\\n185", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "By the combination of genius and physical vigor,\\nBy the perfect blend of enough without too much of anything.\\nTill then let philosophy, love of the wisdom elusive,\\nAnd balloon-trips in politics, romance, heroics and science\\nBe the industry of the substitutes for my titan.\\n184.\\nPerception and ethics are sometimes the victims of sympathy.\\nMuch sudden gold may remodel the ways of the woman\\nWhose character went awry in the stress to attain it.\\nMay be she has made your perception and ethics her victims.\\nYou may know what she is and prefer to say nothing about her.\\nShe may offer the grand ignore to her late antecedents\\nAnd chase in new circles a life of reform on her lucre.\\nBut better have always been Vesta than once Magdalena\\nAnd this is more pointedly true if she pose as a moralist.\\nUnless she confess her experience and pray the high pardon.\\nA man or a woman flies off from such parts of the decalogue\\nAs conflict with desires and ambitions, and writes up a substitute\\nSeized while flying into or out of some mental activity\\nFor generations to follow as experience concreted.\\nNothing less trustworthy, if you stop to think into it\\nThe far-fallen angel trying to raise the slow-soaring.\\nI like not the decalogue any better than you do,\\nBut must say that outside it I cannot find any salvation,\\nPietistic, commercial, social, or other worth seeking.\\nIn this canto I am intoning a lecture to lecturers.\\nBe not loud in exhorting, but quiet in quitting your evil.\\nAccept everything and do as you please in the end, like John Churchill,,\\nWho appeared to be everything good and was nothing but Churchill.\\nYet be sure of your god before you drum others to serve him.\\nYou might reform once more then which god is the true one\\nFor you could not bet on them both even for purpose of platform.\\nThe saints never sinful can see the just end of punition,\\nWhile to the ex-sinner blind pardon includes every virtue.\\n186", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "Let her reform but keep still, and not write, neither lecture.\\nSatisfaction of personal ambition distributes no morals.\\nAnd may mean disadvantage even to the satisfied party.\\nYou have done nothing altruistic in glutting your ego.\\nOne success may mean loss to all the other contributors.\\nThe quick need is redemption, not moral assumption by money,\\nEt dela aux bonnes moeurs, qui sont loin, et si loin que je ne dis pas.\\n185.\\nExcessive patriotism rebukes the Most High, as I view it.\\nWho dares defy by rebuke the wrath of the Deity?\\nHe made Briton, Ethiopian, colonist and ex-colonist,\\nAnd emigrant who, leaving nothing, goes to grasp everything\\nMade by colonist and ex-colonist before his arrival.\\nAnd the others and none of us slaves have not all so proclaimed it\\nHave we not with pigmies made treaties which treat them as equals\\nIn an international jumble of crazed affectation,\\nSan Marino, Andorra, with the interoceanic republic.\\nThe Pike s Peak of nations in application of suffrage?\\nMonte Carlo, Hayti, Hawaii, and cannibal commonwealths\\nWhere soft voices and gentle manners indicate disposition\\nTo seduce you ashore for a banquet whereof you partake not\\nAre these not treaty-equals with nations that laugh through a telescope\\nAt the microscopic equalities which amuse them\\nWhy should Hayti be independent and not Madagascar?\\nBoth black, the West Indians rise not to the African level.\\nNothing open to colonization but everything to barbarism\\nIf colonization be part of civilization\\nThat is planetary dogma, which is much more than doctrine.\\nA loud nation of British foundation damns Britain for everything\\nThat made such nation possible. Must this last forever.\\nThis blind damning of the very principles and activities\\nWhich made civilization possible, and all that goes with it?\\nHave we not to the centuries shouted organic equality\\nTill Father Time cannot refrain from refraining through treetops\\n187", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "In his zephyrs and gales the indefeasible parity\\nWhich we chant of the bianco and negro and Frenchman and Hova\\nBut we have improved more than they? No; not by their standards;\\nAnd the late Mr. Grievely s ex-friend cannot argue them intO it.\\nFrom their share of the deity-basis comes their evolution,\\nNot from your little interpretations about it.\\nYet we stultify ourselves by pretending to conquest,\\nTo the right of forcible annexation of equals,\\nInventing post-facto reasons of inequality.\\nIf you find this wrong as a man, is it right as a patriot\\nWill you deplore it in prayer and implore it in speeches\\nAll this is explained by the razzle of manifest destiny.\\nWho can add to the manifest power of apportioned Niagara?\\nIf destiny be manifest, how thwart it, how aid it?\\nFriends it cannot need, and its foes are as flies in molasses.\\nIt might even smother us all in the syrup of progress\\nSingle or dual progress, unified or allied\\nFor or against all things criticized in this canto.\\ni86.\\nTwo peerless peeresses these, though each was a peer s wife,\\nAnd whichever peer was chief of the race, he was peerless.\\nPandora was Eve to the Greeks each was equally curious.\\nPandora uncovered a pot. Eve divided two apples\\nAnd nothing against Eve, I say, that she shared with her husband.\\nPosterity puzzles to-day to know why they were curious,\\nThose mothers, whichever was mother, of those feazed at Babel,\\nThough, each may have had a good reason and none of us learned it\\nIn the confusion of tongues and the chaos of nations.\\nAny fellow may hazard his notion, regardless of calibre.\\nFor the fall of man Jew and Greek make a woman responsible\\nBy ways so remote that we may not suspect of collusion.\\nYet no woman in Hebrew or Greek has presented her story\\nA surprise, because women vindicate without mercy,\\nNot so much moved by cause as by fury of mere vindication.\\n188", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "But Epimetheus and Adam were mighty mean fellows\\nThey told on their girls he who tells should be marked for the boycott-\\nIf the tumble were due tO a woman, a man should not tell it.\\nA tough epoch is this, but I hope not too tough to be gallant.\\nGods and men most respect those who least fear the sequents of evil^\\nThough of course they are sad for the evil that led to the sequence.\\nAs to Epim, I scorn him he ought to have locked the pot-closet.\\nA bride just brought home could not fail to inspect the preserve-crocks.\\nBut that touches me not, since I come from his brother Prometheus.\\nEve also was curious in fruit, but not that stewed or sugared.\\nI must praise her for bravery also, with Adam omitted.\\nHe was equal in wonder with Eve, but below her in courage.\\nNotliiiig shames me so much as a man with less nerve than a woman\\nAnd ever since Adam shirked out of his little temptation\\nI am proud of descent from another branch of the family.\\nWhat I mean is, these myths are much mixt, wheresoever we get them..\\n187.\\nThe poor ye have always with you, unwilling to emigrate\\nIn numbers sufficient tO leave to the clippers of coupons\\nThe exclusive and inclusive control of the city;\\nAnd when they turn out a full vote they cannot be beaten\\nAt patriotism save by wilful miscount of the ballots\\nA summation the men of the coupons have not yet attempted\\nNot by the whole empire, that is, though they have by the province-\\nNothing else in western life, municipal or national,\\nSo intensely amused my Manchurian as this sinful miscounting\\nHe avowed his shame at his country s inferior invention,\\nAnd remarked how the system would neutralize public opinion\\nWhen the same should become an annoyance to those born to govern;.\\nNot for his country, where freedom from public opinion\\nIs perfect, but for those less advanced and more boisterous.\\nWould you remove an ill that seems chronic in state-life\\nThen, in adjuration not cheerful, give up a little;\\nMake it part, in fact, of your modern-methods curriculum.\\n189", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "^Vhat the ages revolve to repeat must be the true doctrine\\nAnd insuppressive, since justice cares nothing for plaudits,\\nThough no opulent offspring of Demos will read out this canto.\\nEach generation sets up its agnostic reformers\\nWho dazzle and fret and impress and exhale in their order\\nDoubly agnostic, these, not only not knowing not learning.\\nGive me the gnostic who knoweth enough to be faithful,\\nThe jolly cognostic narrowly sure of his purpose.\\nSystems and statutes and panaceas without number\\nHave been tried and found short, with self-abnegation avoided.\\nDo you purposely shrink from a precept because Christ imposed it?\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Communism has nothing to do with this doctrine or practice\\nTis the individual duty of man, if you have it\\n]\\\\Iake the world easier by putting it into the aggregate.\\nI am a lay friend of Christ void of vocal emotion,\\nNot a picturesque pulpiteer of the sin of evasion.\\nIs mere selfish thrift the chief aim and sole end of ambition?\\nWe concede you the interest borne by a hundred fortunes.\\nWas there no simple luck as substitute for the judgment\\nWherewith you so proudly accumulated the principal\\nIs the ratio binding or not, as to greatness and duty,\\nOf anv greatness, heart, mind, fortune or destiny?\\nOr is science to free us from obligation of morals,\\n.Science, universal irony of the deity\\nYou can only get rid of the poor by assuming their burdens,\\nOr by colonizing them in some Borneo absorbent,\\nSome rich giant island awaiting the tickle productive,\\nUnless you prefer to preserve them for purposes maudlin\\nFor expressing the rich regret that they need the assistance\\nWhich makes you so sorry that anybody requires it.\\nBe not lavish, nor liberal by spasm, but continuously human.\\nMorals and sensitiveness add great parts unto greatness,\\nSince they widen the grasp of the mind and sharpen analysis\\n190", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "You cannot so well fill your scope by being blunt as being- tender.\\nIntellectual purpose gains largely from ethical sanction\\nGains what it could not else find, if you rise to this argument.\\nYou are not desired to adopt the estate you alleviate,\\nBut to recognize enough to go round as an aggregate.\\nThe heart should be really touched, not the individual immolated.\\nHe who shall achieve the abolition of misery\\nAlone is the man who shall render useless my sermon.\\nWe are all overworn with the overborne torrent of lecture\\nWhich every day tells who should take up what nobody touches.\\nIs the better hope the euphem-dream of the optim\\nWho cannot see chance with the few and no chance for the many?\\nStep iTovv- to the willing front or else step out of hearing,\\nBeyond the tone of the moralist or the needy.\\n189.\\nA great thought seizes the mind as an object of conquest;\\nThis same mind touches lesser thoughts lightly, vv^ith movement evasive.\\nOne is delirium symmetric the other mere effort.\\nGreat thoughts pass through the head from the heart, if Emerson know it\\nIf not, he raises an issue psycho-hereditary.\\nThe mother of Goethe was said to be very freehearted,\\nBut her heart seemed transformed in the selfish head of her precious.\\nHis single ambition was personal fame, and he won it.\\nEmitting the while some great thoughts from the heart of his mother.\\nThus the woman was great through the son, though the son has the glory\\nThis good woman no traviata reformed to be platformed.\\nNow, in such cases, Waldo, how do you fix compensation\\nIf each were equally indispensable to the other,\\nWhy should the mother be damned to the glory of silence\\nWhile the son looms around as poetic toplight of Teutons\\nIf all gifts of great purpose and prize come from sources unsordid,\\nThen the head of this son was the means of the heart of his mother,\\nYet she has no fame so that great fame is lesser than no fame.\\nHer case does not strike me as offering an instance of justice\\n191", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "As the same is commonly handed down from the courthouse,\\nThe presiding gavel-master of which is its servant\\nSo I rehabilitate humbly the rights of that woman,\\nWhich Waldo left very much mixt, like a first-class philosopher\\nWaldo, pride of his country and equal to any since Plato,\\nWho must always be first because he was first west of Asia,\\nThough neither so schemed to prevent the Committees of Lexow, and Mazet,\\nWhich sat further west of the isles of the blest than the rest dreamed.\\n190.\\nThe least disturbed sense of duty is that of self-sacrifice.\\nWill you develop it or be sacrificed for evasion\\nFor an agonized mass will not wait on your units forever.\\nBlame not the poor for lack of instruction and chances.\\nHow much of good chance have you volunteered in their favor\\nHow little good chance have you strewn in the paths of our sisters?\\nAltruism sounds grand yet what is it unless affectation\\nOf those who cannot successfully be egotistic\\nTo make your own pile or eliminate that of your neighbor\\nThere are in a hundred three throws are yours all double-sixes\\nIf you find some rare coins in the gutter, that does not prove judgment.\\nNor your fitness to be finance minister of your country.\\nSelf-sacrifice belongs to you first and then to your brother\\nThe best part of its character vanishes if you share it.\\nBut your principal friends will prefer to resign you the honors.\\nMay the next revolution be more than a mere split in flagdom\\nPonder the twenty- fourth verse of the nineteenth of Matthew,\\nYe of the standing trust millions, so suave in church circles,\\nAnd paying two guineas a week to those who keep count of them.\\nOr would you prefer twenty-sixth, the last clause of last sentence\\nIt seems to leave somewhat ajar the front gates of redemption.\\nEven for those condemned by the twenty-fourth to exclusion.\\nWesley, Garibaldi and Manning were above leavmg fortunes.\\nGod seems sublimest in pauperizing the Plutus\\nAs, helpless, he goes to dwell dead in his vain mausoleum.\\n192", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "191.\\nNo country is without hungry men, women and children\\nNo, not the most prosperous in its best day I have seen this.\\nTheir fault Why not yours in not better distributing- chances\\nYour right to distribute is equal with theirs to look out for them.\\nMan must make a career for himself on the heads of his fellows\\nHe shows up inept if he seek out careers for those fellows.\\nYet nobody ever saw Jesus posed up on testudo.\\nAfter all, they are base metal gods of their egotist kindred\\nWho possess all the powers of speech and of print to imjx se them\\nAgainst the absence of power to resent imposition.\\nTlie fact that you cannot be heard puts no truth in my error.\\nCombinations are fo-rmed very oft to prevent truth-expression,\\nAnd drumroll hath frequently rolled down its voice on the gallows.\\nWhen the casual citizen speaketh his mind on a corner\\nNo one careth a dee what he says but put the same crudities\\nIn some dailies which circulate several millions of copies,\\nAnd they form a political scheme for whooping the people.\\nNothing new, true, great, just, but merely the spread of inanity.\\nMerely the spread of it, grows into national policy.\\n192.\\nHe that is first in his cause seemeth just, but his neighbor\\nCometh and searcheth him, and thus shaketh his narrative.\\nAnd sometimes he goeth so far as to shiver his timbers.\\nSeek-first-the-kingdom-of-God has a value material\\nAs a phrase of mere discipline but be you first to seek it.\\nThe all-else will not be added till you do your duty\\nThe level can never be one for creator and creature.\\nThe gift of free will was not to the slave, but the freeman.\\nExhaust all discussion and that is the very last answer.\\nYet you jump over all the back fences in dodging the issue.\\nGenerations succeed in a monotone of rotation,\\nBut the principle lives until some generation adopt it.\\n193", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "Where science socially fails, inspiration supplants it,\\nThus bridging the gap between faith and the failure of science,\\nTill the syndicates absorbed inspiration and science,\\nSince the hope of the end of our sorrow we relinquish reluctantly.\\nAVhom the Lord receiveth he scourgeth, except in republics\\nThese having established democracy and theocracy\\nIn the separate spheres of politics and religion,\\nHave ceased to require the discipline due to irregulars\\nWho maintain the artificial distinctions of monarchies.\\nYet equality remiains theoretic with demos\\nDespite fifty denominations and biped electorate.\\nDid your god arrange for the millionaire and the pauper?\\nSuppose he did not, will he leave them thus classified ever?\\nIf he shall I regret his ideal, and yours who adore him.\\nThere may be high substitutes for theocracy and democracy.\\n193-\\nWhen you read about Christ, is your impulse to follow his maxims?\\nOr are they too high for your mental equipment and forces\\nOr is the moral absorbed in the shock of his murder,\\nA brutal, inscrutable fact which had to be, like another\\nLet us unite in a mass to tell why we ignore them.\\nLet us sing him a mass penitential, a hymn for forgiveness,\\nA musical shout of contrition, a prayer for salvation\\nJn harmonic mass-meeting indignant of citizens pietist\\n194.\\nInstead of devising new duties, be happy with old ones\\nNo avail in fresh projects for gathering into salvation\\nThe recalcitrants of the overwise, dullard and doubtful.\\nThey will enter the ring at some sunrise of wisdom, not section,\\nWhich fifty theocrat democrats preach as the full orb.\\nI see for myself wath a concatenation of faculties\\nWhich may not be correlated in me as in others,\\n194", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "As they showed not the same correlation in Gladstone and Ingersoll.\\nThis is neither my merit nor fault, but an ordered condition\\nWhich applies to all sorts of theologs and agnostics.\\nThe maker of minds made the fitting faiths when they find them.\\nContradictory systems and liturgies anathematic\\nOne of another, are not his, when you step from the tenabrse.\\n195-\\nDoubt not of progress, but hesitate to miscall things.\\nSelf-evidently selfish the system of ego.\\nThe competition of egoism ends in destruction,\\nVv ^hetiier you. cut up the aliens or cut up each other.\\nAdmitting the cheaper alien, you cut your high wages\\nKeeping him out, you cut into their purchasing genius.\\nKeeping alien product out, prices rise on all buyers.\\nBut highest on those least addicted to dividend-habit.\\nSince the man of the dividend-habit puts it in trust-forms.\\nIt sounds well that wages are high, but the practice is better\\nThat puts proper proportion into their purchasing genius,\\nWhether you work for ten dollars a week or ten guineas.\\nThe lower they are the more likely they are to continue\\nGet commodity-price in accord and away from the syndicates,\\nOr take shares in mine with all dividends and no wages.\\nNo citizen is bound to be of one of two classes.\\nIs it wise to divide all mankind into millgods and hirelings\\nTrained mercantile class is a need fundamental in colonies.\\nManufacturer s wageman may not sell goods, but draws salar}^\\nMerchant must sell in order to live and pay salaries,\\nAnd, being on the ground, has sounder knowledge of markets.\\nFrom producer direct to consumer is whim of a moment\\nThat temporarily cuts a class out of good living.\\nThe world pays for nothing that does not pay in the long run.\\nMetamorphosed to moth, society camphorates you promptly.\\nI recall public torch of incendiarism did it light progress\\nHemove the conditions of riot and then call it progress.\\n195", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "Brotherhood signifies emulation of nations\\nIn ways not sprinkled with blood of avarice and flagdom.\\nIn system with self-praise a-topple riot is latent\\nFor the listeners see substance toppling into the premises\\nOf those who lecture on substance, not those who listen.\\nWas democracy chained to an epoch with shackles immortal\\nAny democracy, not that of a special instance\\nIf it was, would it be worth while that monarchy follow it?\\nWhat intellectual treat is so sweet as a caucus\\nOf statesmen sitting on sugar of maple or canebrake?\\nLarge enough are the figures to fuddle the top gifts of Euclid.\\nThe democrat of to-day is as fixt against socialism\\nAs the autocrat is against anything known as republic.\\nMay the ghost of the King triumph yet over that of the subject?\\nThree centuries have elapsed since the last French King Henry,\\nLover of freedom as then it went round, and of popular welfare.\\nThree hundred years past that King desired for each peasant\\nA pheasant, or chicken, or something equally nourishing\\nIn the daily ppt-au-feu Vv iiat system provides it\\nCan all peasant families dine from a platter so pleasant\\nAs pheasant or chicken daily in any republic\\nA good democrat surely was ancient King Henry the Hearty\\nWho lifted the drift of the term as no later man lifts it\\nI would modestly seek to evolve the superior nutrition\\nOf high-priced republican food over pauper monarchic\\nFor those of both systems who have only so much tO buy with.\\nAnd that so-much always too little for those whO must spend it..\\nThis refers to the food-boasts of democratic apostolate.\\nShould the socialist get on top, would he be any different\\nEach is an intellect on his side of the question.\\nRemember, and not on all sides of all problems that touch it\\nAt this point comes the giant need without giant to feed it.\\nIf I could be thorough on all sides as I am on my own side.\\nThe world should be free of all evils save death and taxation..\\n196", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "196.\\nLet the foe fuddle you not competition of altruism\\nWould not stop progress, for the tariff affects to be altru,\\nAnd so is for the egoist who fingers the spoils of it\\nWhich go to pay interest and dividends and not wages.\\nBut the cure is worse than the evil as leading to trust-forms\\nAnd combinations against the popular welfare\\nUntil he who is critic of trusts is guilty of treason,\\nSo quickly opinion runs off to the big-money channel.\\nMan will never know himself until altruism dominate,\\nSpeaking of him in worldly sense only, not as immortal.\\nThe experts of premises false and of narrow law-logic\\nWho subsidize all the channels of public expression\\nSimply baffle the open-door policy leading to paradise,\\nThe paradise of the planet, not that of the future.\\nPray read this impartially, for I advocate nothing.\\nI quote a few nationfuls of the intellects pretentious,\\nFeeling fool s confidence in his wiser companions,\\nAnd would rather run from a doctrinaire than a cruiser.\\nBut altruism would deliver us from pig-product progress.\\nThe porcine producer and product of egoism hungry.\\nAre you egoist to the point of seeing no other\\nWill you sweep space with Phoebus or continue on in the mule-path\\nA boom-rally is not prosperity you are mistaken\\nIt has to take care of its own reaction, and does not.\\nThe sardonic part of the boom is the shirk of the sequence.\\nWhen you balance the two, note your preference for steady conditions.\\nPut science at work on proportioning the machinery\\nWhich shall neither glut nor starve men nor markets at present\\nAll is chaos therein, with chance to the speculator onl)^\\nWagemen have not the money for taking advantage of chaos.\\nIs freedom a grope, or a hope, or is it an order?\\nIt seems not to know how to cut itself loose from vicissitude.\\nWhich maketh more victims than sin, in or out of republics.\\nTis the euphemism of the slave for imagined possession,\\n197", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "Perhaps but its meaning certainly ought to be clearer\\nWheresoever people deem they live under its influence\\nAs theocrats, democrats, socialists or agnostics.\\nSome men will approve what I write because you dislike it,\\nAnd you will condemn it because you belong not among them.\\nThus you see if you placate the world you must injure some feelings.\\nNo joke reaches far enough to excite every laughter.\\nI have my pet notions, like you, of republics and freedom.\\nAnd would give half the globe could I live under President Plato.\\n197\\nBut if you cannot agree on a golden-rule system\\nAnd continue to build for your brother twixt altru and ego.\\nYou are merely the architect of the nihilist shambles.\\nWe are glib in the theory of reciprocal owings,\\nYet Pourceaugnac is our model as Moliere defined him.\\nNo ism can be large enough in law or in science,\\nNo ist can be Cassar enough in any dominion\\nTo establish the happy medium, the fortunate circle\\nLeaving nothing to be desired, desi^ring that no one get left there.\\nTo be autocrat of all happiness on one level.\\nThere is plenty of room at the top, said my puissant Dan Webster.\\nHe illumined the motto by seizing and holding the summit.\\nBut I answer the great Mr. Webster, the middle needs more of it.\\nTop and bottom have plenty of space, but the middle is crowded,.\\nThe sensitive section of hard fight and moderate ambition,\\nWithout which both top and bottom would go to the bottom.\\n198.\\nReform must comie in what is miscalled education.\\nIn delaying it evolution seems culpable plainly.\\nEvolution, whose mission is to cast out the defective\\nBy natural elimination, not buccaneer stratagems.\\nOpen a school to teach the correct diagnosis\\n198", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "Of the true bent of the child and bring it up from that basis.\\nBe not discouraged by keener psychologic exactions.\\nRespect the demand for increased physiological knowledge.\\nAgain to discover the bent of the child is the duty,\\nAnd I wish I could be the Columbus of such situation.\\nThis proposition is vital, including all life-rights.\\nDetermine early the drift of the gift that effected,\\nThe hope of the race is transferred from fresh fields of new bondage,\\nFrom the repetition of errors and crimes on new acres\\nTo the crescent career where success is as sure as the moon-growth\\nTo the outlined career where from childhood mistake cannot enter.\\nBe plain with me as you choose when I tell you flatly\\nYou may iio longer dump on the youthful intelligence\\nAn university full of the rot of all ages\\nAnd turn it out on the world with a placard of education.\\nThe adaptation of mind to the thought it externates\\nIs that which bestows on the thought its value presumptive.\\nGreat man with one theme, he mar be a farceur with another,\\nAnd supreme in one sphere, yet be wholly unable to change it.\\nTo beg questions, dodge issues, and spread false doctrine, make, booklets\\nBut no true letters, no matter the yarns nor the years of delusion\\nMy booklet is doing good now in affirming this doctrine.\\nEndow a college built on the rock of emancipation.\\nArrange a curriculum to begin by excluding the present.\\nBut then the old thing is up tO requirement, says Andy.\\nIt is if his millions may limit the human advancement,\\nAnd if no one else may aspire because he is happy.\\n199.\\nConfound not dispute on points technic with movements of principle.\\nTrue education would multiply calls for its forces\\nAnd there would more to be done than of people to do it.\\nThat is the active meaning of real instruction.\\nAnd the golden age would establish of Tasso and Thomson.\\nBring each a great heart and not a great head to the duty\\n199", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "As the rule this proposition is viewed vice versa.\\nAmong social evils what think you of overproduction\\nDo you ever think about it at all, Panaceist\\nScarcity wins you high wages, but glut does not feed you.\\nAnd you never are glutted with wages for glutted conditions.\\nA commercial, order for ten brings supplies for a hundred,\\nYet you wonder at shut-downs, strikes, and no wages, low prices.\\nCan capital carry stock unproductive forever\\nTo satisfy those who must live by their earnings diurnal\\nWhile those earners a.re paid to produce ten times what is wanted\\nThese questions are always absorbing, though no one absorbs them\\nIn the sense of digesting them for an answer that settles.\\nSurely inventors are fathers of neutralized benefits\\nIs your genius so poor it can only glut markets, stop wages?\\nContinued reaction and rally leave industry a sarcasm\\nOn the very serious fellows who can live only by it.\\nI do not believe any god is in any such system,\\nBut that the purpose of God in free will is defeated\\nBy hypocritic misuse of free will in a grab-game\\nWhere chance puts that fellow on top who can feed himself longest.\\nWho can feed himself up to starve other men into submission\\nFor, pluck and endurance being equal, the fed man is winner.\\nThis is not economic debate, but the taffy of fireside.\\nIf college go higher and moral and social tone lower\\nIn the same decade, what do you think of the colleges\\nOr which of the three shall keep up the one or two other?\\nAccept or reject on the facts, and not as an optimist,\\nNor as inimical friend, as Mephisto to Faustus.\\nShall social evils ever be righted by morals,\\nBy the active sentiment of propinquitous duty,\\nNot by Pecksniff statutes which coldly add pain to misfortune?\\nTo abolish privilege, remember, is not to transfer it\\nFrom a higher caste to a lower caste and more numerous.\\nIn seeking to substitute right for the rights of the favored\\nLet us not be content with mere change in the lodgement of privilege.\\nDeath of the isms will at last bring the level of fortune\\n200", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "Populism, communism, socialism, spiritism as a traffic.\\nWhatsoever pretends to a legislative crank s paradise.\\nMust be put to death as th^e bummer-means of high purpose.\\nLaw secular cannot be sentient as ethical dutv.\\nNeither practise the obligations of personal morals.\\nDemocracy is well organized on its level.\\nAnd has many years to run thereon in its fixity\\nBut this system, up to date, gives no lofty assurance.\\nIt forgets its defects and remembers those of the enemy\\nWith a shout big enough to deafen all other systems,\\nAnd sloughing the skin but not the traits of its fathers.\\nIf or .the democrat is merely a fugitive feudalist,\\nA feudalist saturated at base of the strata,\\nTransferred to new sphere, and putting old facts in new system.\\nGenerations will refine him, of course but so will they the others.\\nThey may crowd his luck, too, by overcrowding his paradise.\\nBut I am his friend, and I recognize his importance\\nAs having achieved things which nobody else has attempted,\\nAnd which nearly all others derided as not being attainable.\\nAnd I thank him for an original character in letters\\nNot an architect he so much as a smasher of shackles,\\nAnd more needed as such than a Phidias among ooets\\nFor he broke the enfeebling tinkle-tinkle of language\\n^Misapplied to poetic thought and repelling strong readers\\nWalt Whitman, of course I name him to do myself honor.\\nFor none gone through death into fame hath less need of fine phrases.\\n200.\\nYe who dislike this, beseech you forego your displeasure,\\nFor lo I convict you out of the ink of your printmen\\nIn the columns not devoted to jingo and syndicate.\\nBut to crowner s quest law on contractors and commissariat.\\nIn the Crimean war the British inefficiency\\nAs tO Quartermaster and Commissary was effulgent,\\n201", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "And the people flew into a rage and upset a symposium,\\nTurned a Cabinet out and shook hands with one another warmly,\\nTaking great moral pride in both the achievement and anger,\\nWhile the soldiers were frozen and starved. In the war about Cuba\\nThe States surpassed Britain in every sort of deficiency.\\nWherein Britain had excelled, and got angry and boasted\\nOf their popular virtue while their soldiers were roasted and starving.\\nA soldier is always hungry enough to eat anything.\\nAnd contractor and commissary bet on this appetite,\\nOne banking at end of camipaign on the way he appeased it.\\nPopular self-righteousness, not official efficiency,\\nIs a dominant trait in the self-satisfaction political\\nWhich the two nations single-tongued call political freedom.\\nBy virtue of these vices neither my States nor my Britain\\nIs so strong as either believes, nor as each of them should be.\\nTo the German War Department such raving is farcical,\\nWhile such virtue provokes contempt alone, as it should do.\\nWhy not make your Quartermaster and your Commissary\\nIn the first instance efficient, O States and O Britain,\\nThus giving the world no occasion to sneer, nor yourselves to be angry\\nNor to stand on their heads delinquents, nor to organize inquests?\\nBe not too sharp to be oculist to your brother\\nHe may see a mote neutralizing the edge of your lancet.\\nMy postulate is that true patriotism eliminates errors\\nInstead of embalming in sanctity those which deform you\\nWith the beef embalmed which desanctifies heroes who eat it.\\nCan that which is wrong in one man be right in ten millions\\nOr does it not monstrously multiply one by ten millions?\\nMy mission is that of requesting a few explanations\\nOf sad suppressed verities ere I partake of the taffy.\\nToo serene am I to be captious, too old to be spiteful.\\nIt is great to be free from the errors that go with the youthful\\nIt is almost worth while to be very old for this privilege.\\nBut no matter how much I anticipate in this funscreed.\\nSpeak your little piece of critique, whether reading or skipping.\\nI suggest no new scheme, but recall indefeasible ethics,\\n202", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "That is, if indefeasible really mean something\\nAnd if we may not annul them, suppose we apply themi.\\n201.\\nA righteous system assureth success to each member,\\nThe development of all faculties, moral and other\\nThe just award, not too much nor too little for any one.\\nWe may not attain it Not less tis a pleasant reflection,\\nRecalling the golden age of Torquato s Aminta,\\nOr New Zealand equality against corporation-democracy.\\nMany misfits nature makes, yet they seem to fit so mewhere.\\nYet not nature makes them, but rather our systems of misfit.\\nIf a famine prevail on the hill there is corn in the valley,\\nAnd the average will always be full for a just distribution.\\nBut you must adopt a just system whereby tO distribute.\\nNot philanthropy is needed so much as no need of it.\\nMankind has accepted no system from Plato to Spencer\\nAs workable, but has little by little adopted\\nSome of all for a time, and then let it drift into limbo.\\nSuccessive atmospheres of speculative glory\\nHave oxygenated the mind as from loftier intelligence.\\nBut the spirits thus vivified have rejected the systems\\nFor lack of concretion this does not condemn the philosophies\\nNor the rejectors; but as the prevailing condition\\nCommon human happiness has not been established.\\nI am simply noting a fact, and leave you to explain it.\\nOr ten thousand colleges radiant with all sorts of learning.\\n202.\\nTherein do we see the just purpose of education,\\nAnd mankind will never be tranquil until they achieve it,\\nA knowledge other than that which increaseth our sorrow.\\nUnrest never dies as the genius of right unattained yet\\nSelf-assertive equally with autocrats and democrats forever.\\n203", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "Despair not, since many the years were that waited atonement.\\nNew learning yet shall arise from a rational basis,\\nThe Phcenix of Reason late burned in the temple of folly\\nWhereto it had dangerously strayed for the wisdom of trifles\\nIn a world surprised at the joke of its credences previous.\\nIn a world of wilful and willing delusion and groping.\\nThere is brewing an essence of sense on this theme, for I scent it\\nThere is planted the seed of a flower which shall shed new elixir\\nSweet as a bud with indefinite power of expansion,\\nA flos with the possible dross of its perfume exhausted.\\nHow long time do you need to confess you have learned to go wrongly\\nWith the power and the age of your schools and their million alumni\\nEducation is narrow misnomer outside this conception,\\nTliis eagle-idea in the air bound yet to perch somewhere.\\n203.\\nAre these things so far Like the past, there is lure in the future,\\nAnd the lure either speaks for itself or its fineness escapes you.\\nProximity palls even home seems more concrete by absence\\nIn the glow which imagination flings round its pleasures.\\nI aim enchanted with distance, and so with the garden\\nOf Aristotle for if I had walked with that teacher\\nHis roses and rhetoric and pace might have mixt me v/ith nearness,\\nAs they addled the greater son of the great Macedonian.\\nBut at two thousand miles and two thousand years in the distance\\nHis expositions al fresco seem very refreshing\\nSeem stump speeches by classical chopper in forest poetic.\\nTwo hundred decades from this I should like to applaud them\\nRenewed in some equal successor on themes then important.\\nIf any race shall produce such if not, I shall wander,\\nA peripatetic spirit, back to his banquets,\\n204,\\nA church-member told me that caste is the ally of morals.\\nHe is very rich now I recall him quite poor with six children.\\n204", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "He was socialist then leaned to dynamitic adjustment,\\nAs he worked hard and worried over those six children s future.\\nI told him his six were no better nor worse than another s six,\\nAnd that dynamite of itself was a worry sufficient\\nEven to a man wholly free of parental solicitude.\\nHe confessed the explosive point, rejecting the altruistic.\\nAn important lesson is here either his church or his fortune\\nHad taught him error yet he clearly agreed with his fortune,\\nAnd not with the apostles. If caste be the ally of morals,\\nIn my next comedy I must give it so^me cantos\\nOf decalogical value, to supplement Moses,\\nAs from wealthy vestryman to the doctrine of Nebo,\\nOr Olivet such men not then being invented.\\n205.\\nWhy was war necessary for feeding the starving\\nWhen you were already feeding the starving without it?\\nIt is good to take up these topics in phases and sections.\\nThe ages, you know, will not fail to hold fast to your motive.\\nThey could not eat twice as much war-fed as peace-fed, poor rebels\\nAnd while you prepared tO war-feed them, they died of no-feeding.\\nYour men of great dailies and platforms of course have explained us\\nWhy war-philanthropy excels that of peace why the beneficiaries\\nOf the one becamie the victims of the other. It makes you no difference\\nThat your paradox staggers the future and killed the unfortunates\\nWhom the prior half of your new wonder-scheme was preserving.\\nThe comment, if any, is that there must be no comment.\\nThe unsaved could not reproach you the change in food-strategy\\nWhich killed the many to save the few, and plant freedom\\nAmong the survivors, if any, of half-savage rebels.\\nBut I never knew public act yet that could escape history.\\nLet the critic promptly chant himself into a lullaby\\nTill history appear with the pen and the lancet of motive\\nAnd the antecedent record that made all this possible.\\n205", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "206\\nIf you teach your youth to love theirs without hating my country,\\nI will teach ours that you by example surpass us.\\nWe live in a world where a nation is either a household\\nEntitled to full reciprocity of good neighbor,\\nOr is one of a series of lajrs of inimical hippodrome.\\nIt is not your cause, but the manner in which you present it.\\nOr you may see fit to present it without any manners.\\nGovernment better than people cannot subsist with a people\\nWhen free, because liberty sets them free to destroy it\\nVoluntarily or by incidence, as beyond them.\\nAssimilation benevolent means the proconsul,\\nMeans some big Pontius Pilate set up over some Aguinaldo\\nIn all instances some political carpet-bagger\\nWho lets circumstance drift to the cross, and then goes into mourning\\nFor what he did not prevent but I am not weeping.\\nNations occasionally settle their issues by merit.\\nRemember the arbitrational issue of Behring.\\nIt would double the crime of a war to defy that example.\\nNext time let the comic editors handle such question\\nThey are never rich, and could get the bill settled much quicker,\\nWhile nations are always rich, and put off the poor sailors.\\n207.\\nAfter all, aristo s are best but how do you make them\\nCapsize not your ink in a rage, but think out the Greek meaning\\nPrejudiced misuse of derivative should not mislead you.\\nThere is always plenty of influence for him who can wield it.\\nSometimes circumstance forces the influence, as with Lincoln.\\nAgain, influence forces the circumstance, as with Boney.\\nBut the latter I haste to refuse to accept as aristo,\\nKakos anthropos, or the bad big boy, of the vain folk.\\nThe political development of the French people\\nWas less than it was with Louis Quatorze when it took him.\\n205", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "But ht me defend nothing- ill in fun, favor or satire.\\nCaste, in hard Hnes without morals, increaseth hypocrisy.\\nThus augmenting a sin which, with others, it aims at concealing.\\n208.\\nIdealogue of an age wholly unscientific.\\nYou say, is he who^ proposes the rule of the moral\\nIn a world taught to science, not morals, to look for solutions.\\nAnd to corporate capital for absorbing all management.\\nI may assent if I do, not Christian is civilization.\\nil quarrel with nothing, not seeing the value of dogma,\\nHaving seen one dogma ruin another so often.\\nBut I call for the social application of science\\ntThat shall begin the far end which the golden rule looks to.\\nAnd begin it in manner to follov/ it out seriatim.\\nNot flatter itself that it lives not with Henry Plantagenet.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Until science shall equalize upward the fate of the victims\\nOf fate, I shall cling tO the ancient conception of morals,\\nWhich is not content tO see science collapse like a bubble\\nWhen calkd to yield more than a chance to the minions of fortune.\\nChance in that sense is just, since it carries no other pretension.\\nBut science, as meaning the height and the sum of all knowledge,\\n[Is a hypocrite if it cannot rise above chances.\\n209.\\nYou acknowledge wrongs why not set yourself to destroy them,\\nNot alone, but by asking your neighbors to follow the movement\\nGive you time You have had every reign since the days of King Egbert,\\n1 And in his age the golden rule had come down from Confucius.\\n[Are civilty and Christianism forces antagonistic,\\nOne too altruistic for selfish appreciation.\\nFloating side by side in the irony of Mephisto?\\nDo not mistake my agnostic he is not an infidel\\nHe wishes to know, and asks questions how would he learn else?\\n207", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "2IO.\\nThe moral law is occult it is not understood yet\\nAnd if you shout dogma every time it be preached to you,\\nThere will soon be no preachers nor teachers nor pupils abiding.\\nNineteen centuries hath Christ been proclaimed, and Moses past thirty.\\nBut where the practicians of doctrine of Pisgah or Olivet\\nWhat people puts such doctrine into its patriotism?\\nWhere the devotees who obey in ten cases Thou Shalt Not\\nThey prefer to decline in ten cases the grammar of ethics.\\nNone so lay out the moral law that from choice we obey it.\\nWe would if we could without sacrifice that confounds us.\\nDo you recall those fine men of the order Bostonian,\\nFavorite seers of the proud Nineteenth Century, the Second Quarter^\\nThose New Lights in Letters, the Children of Capital Letters,\\nWho killed war dead by their institutions superior.\\nBy the forum-din of the virtues, the reason-shot of the monthlies\\nLimners of figures Utopian in deserts of hopefuls,\\nSaharas of beauty whose flaw was the lack of the possible,\\nYet whose services are tO their country of merit imiUiortal\\nThey proved the goal unattainable of the average.\\nAnd that demigods may be followed by filibusteros.\\nThe old Vv hite church on some corner beside Boston Com.mon,\\nPark Street Temple the natives call it, I ween, spread no doctrine\\nSelf-sufficient for holding the public mind to home-issues.\\nTheir failure to prove anything but their own isolation\\nCuts me, taught to deem them the later and higher apostles.\\nThose dear dead prophets who knew it all and knew nothing,\\nWhose unmenaced land shrieks more war than all other nations.\\nThose optimists teach us a double doubt of their species\\nWhose honest intent is the laudanum-lull of delirium.\\nThe bishop is chairman of eccelesiastic convention\\nThat still fails to persuade us to love like ourselves the next-door folk.\\nNothing so sad as the failure of Christ with the laymen,\\nThe crucified Chief of the Altruists hopeless as model.\\n208", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "211.\\nHave you ever reflected how greatness has gathered some items\\nCom\u00c2\u00a9 into the temple of fame and salute some immortals,\\nA few chiefs they may widen your mind and develop your feelings.\\nBlind Homer s receipts from his genius left him a beggar.\\nThe Iliad of Troy was wrought out in an Iliad of Sorrow\\nHe burdened the ages with fame and then starved for his place here.\\nProud blind regicide Milton, another who fared scarcely better.\\nSaints might sicken at thought of the dooms of Cervantes and Dante,\\nOr faint at the chains and the glory and grief of Columbus.\\nThat is Count Ugolino of Envy, a warning imperishable\\nor a capital sin that carries punition undying.\\nWouldst thou gnaw forever thine enemy s head to be niched here\\nThere is a thorn-crowned Redeemer; Mahomet is aureoled.\\nHis faithful ascending tower-high over Hebrews and Romans.\\nThe immortals stun me already come out of the temple\\nWhere the incense stifles I wonder our nature can breathe such.\\nIf the carnifex be our Apollo of inspiration,\\nMay letters be burned and the vacuum of knowledge be wisdom.\\nAny mastery is scholarship let any find a new destiny\\nSufferance may not be measured by that which is merely apparent.\\nOrganic quality explains it as nearly as may be.\\nTear the crown from the tiger that reigns over human superiors\\nThe experience wrenched from such suffering should not be needed.\\nAll is wrong where the finest are martyrs to save the coarse victims.\\nAn infernal, not a celestial race would require this.\\nDeride not the change of heart theory tis needed supremely.\\nBy whatever faith you accomplish the change, make it certain.\\nStrong in their bailiwicks are the ignorant and the rebel,\\nBut a god in some form is the final resource of the tortured.\\nIf they need not the god they have not been sufficiently tortured.\\nIs this agony a myth because you fail to feel it?\\nThe forum incites us, the pulpit teaches subjection.\\nIndividualism without form raves from contrary sources,\\nInterested only in making the ego-impression.\\n209", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "One tickles our fancy, the other inflames our resentment,\\nWith the listeners too dull to perceive the two tricks of the shouters.\\nWe are ground as in mills of the gods between hope and reaction.\\nAnd our chronic dream is the golden fleece of a substitute.\\nAre we to build the new argo to seek the new cargo?\\n212.\\nWe need a fresh race of apostles sacred and secular,\\nContemporaries being cut on the syndicate pattern.\\nQuit preaching obedience and privilege in forms mediaeval.\\nElse will you anger the men strained by pain till they tell you\\nThe whole of the capital seven have ceased to be sinful.\\nYour doctrine excites necessarily lasting resistance\\nWhile it inculcates content with conditions half-human,\\nAnd the field-preach perennial of demos does not alleviate them.\\nEach pulpiteer his own Christ works a segregate influence.\\nTry to lessen the tension that runs through the generations.\\nIn the selfish evangel the doctrinaire followed the robber.\\nThe industrial moth with the time to frame laws and troll speeches.\\nHe simply continues to do it for those who support him,\\nBut the popular mind finds him every day harder to suffer.\\n213.\\nAre these topics deep and dry? They are bang up and ethical.\\nTis the fashion to-day to pretend that ethics are popular.\\nI am doing my little best to help on the delusion.\\nEthics make a good fad, but short life is the essence of fashion.\\nLa Divima Commedia di Dante non sempre e comica\\nBut this world is so serious that all things non-tragic are comic,\\nAnd he found non-tragic incidents enough for his title.\\nOr he may have desired to bequeath an ironic conundrum.\\n214.\\nBetter adrift from the god of defeat and his doctrines\\nThan moored to the duty of mumbling his precepts exhausted.\\n210", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "The hell of content in v/hich the vast mass of our fellows\\nAre damned to admire the children of snugly housed fortune\\nWhose merit was luck, and by generations of roll-call,\\nNeeds religious fervor as part of the force contemplative.\\nThe apostolate of the ease of the pewholder steady\\nMerely maddens the throng without seats to a worse pitch of fury.\\nPreach something else or your creed will be curst as a sarcasm.\\nRather Robin Hood than Archbishop of Modern Millions.\\nCanst thou justify to thyself, even by mere human reasoning.\\nThe pursuit, at the cost of pursuits, of a fetich elusive,\\nThou son born to death who art god of the fortune that shirks thee,\\nEver shrinking ahead of thy touch or disdaining to follow\\nThe self-burning mind has succeeded the fagot and dagger\\nTill for freedom the soul has invented annihilation.\\nLast resource of aspiration at ashes of incense,\\nOf the lover of Hope whom she starved to emaciation.\\nOut of the deeps do I cry of the years that are full of it,\\nO God put the race in advance of the progress requiring it\\nA conception of fire that has withered the heart of the prophet\\nIs too precious by far for the fiends v.^ho dare benefit by it.\\nIndifferent that others writhe so that they escape trouble.\\nOne special providence would render superfluous all praying\\nBut if in celestial economy that be a fiction.\\nBeware of the logic of natural law to effect it\\nBy that law the superiors shall not always bleed for enlightening.\\nThey will rather plunge to repose in immortal extinction,\\nWeary at last of their radiance which failed to illume you.\\nO ingrates open your ears to the trumpet sorrow\\nLouder now than when blown to an air not yet sound-crammed, not weary\\nOf celebrant brass and of science and sermon and hymnal.\\nLest that trump proclaim punishment worse than the death of the firstborn\\nOn the children of those who were willfully deaf to its clamor\\n215-\\nYou, loiterer, man of the world, not an ist of envy nor ruin,\\nTou are not really earnest on evils in state-life\\n211", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "Then drop the pretension of interest that makes you a hypocrite.\\nAffront not the gods of revenge with your self-contradiction.\\nWhen cornered on manifest wrongs, answer not with conundrums.\\nCease advocating the science distinguished by nihil\\nWhen your forces are all arrayed against those of the nihilist,\\nWho cannot be either cajoled or dragooned to your premises\\nThat penal servitude is the heritage of just living\\nFor those who may not at all times throw all double sixes.\\nThe unhearted schemes symmetrized on the lines of fat purses\\nCannot keep unmaterialized ever the spectre of Gresham.\\nThe man of thin purse cannot fill out the lines of the fat one.\\nA rights-o -mam soup or ragoiit a la breezy stump speaker\\nComes an easy offer for dinner-full partisan preachers,\\nBut providtes not the solids for him who absorbed its wind-beauty.\\n216.\\nIn the Church, im the Commons, the Lords, in the Navy and Army\\nThe purpose still stays in the air, but the function is perfect\\nSo perfect that purpose, I deem, is mistaken for function.\\nMy object would be to combine consummation with function.\\nSermons, speeches, bands, drill, evolutions of ships and battalions,\\nMy Lord Marquis, are numerous and brilliant but all end in function.\\nIts merits are shining enough to give me the razzle,\\nBut as exhibition of purpose, function is funny\\nThe ironic act in the Comedy of Olympus,\\nThe predilect series of scenes in the laughter that dies not.\\nI repeat, let us try to combine consummation with function\\nFor our friend that opaquely lights us or slights us will rise yet\\nTo radiate in Exeter Hall our regret at its tribesmen.\\nOur griefs for the chiefs who fail not of the praise of our rivals\\nWho would knock out the Britons as tyrants to set up the Fenii\\nA grotesque anthropologist to succeed a state-builder\\nThe summation of everything comic and everything tragic.\\n212", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "217.\\nPhrenic distension amuses your optimist otium,\\nBut one scheme remains still untried it is that of self-sacrifice.\\nThis you and I have discussed till all three are exhausted.\\nMoral law is like death in one aspect we cannot escape it\\nIn the ultimate, though we may take great fun in the meanwhile.\\nBut if you seek themes pietistic for endless discussion\\nInstead of desiring solution of problems transcendent,\\nInterpret a moral law when you cannot deny it.\\nConscience is willing to sail to the windward of sacrifice.\\nThe richest man in the church may best pilot the parson.\\nEvery man with some Christ in his soul is the victim of some one\\nWho has less perhaps God arranged this and kept his own secret\\nOrdained it as measure for rendering some moral life possible.\\nAssuming both ignorance and motive, all Korans are high comedy\\nNo exception, all things are high in proportion to purpose.\\nGo forth and preach as your prophet commands, and meet others\\nWho preach as their prophets command and among the religions\\nIf extermination ensue, let the dead thank their saviours.\\n218.\\nThink deep on the passion prolonged of the sons of privation\\nWho transmit the vain hopes of their lives throughout vain generations.\\nWhether you take the fate kindly or kick like your fathers.\\nIn the end you must lay on the altar of duty your tribute\\nThis is not anarchistic, but a waft from the region of morals\\nOr the long disinherited heirs will put you in their places.\\nSpare sorrow by heeding what I find but sorrow in telling;\\nFor otherwise when the mass shall be truly enlightened.\\nShall have laughed itself free of Korans and agnostic no^prophets\\nAnd be up in the upness of obligation reciprocal,\\nThe professors of syndicate must cease their resistance,\\nMust quit bribing caucus and court, legislation and firstman.\\nOr the angel forlorn will once more spread the wings of his fury,\\n213", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "Without monition repeating the night of Sennacherib\\nOn many a field, and a Noyade by many a river\\nFor the ages are wrathful against them for egoist pretexts,\\nThese demons of fortune misused, the political Pluti.\\nNo chance to repent with your hand red against the successful.\\nNot with us means against us, and woe is the portion.\\n219.\\nFor order and progress legitimate nothing is substitute,\\nAnd therefore I could not be advocate of spoliation,\\nFor I have looked close upon war and scenes harder than battle^\\nWith experiences saturate till I wish I could cast them,\\nBecause more than sufficient annuls where sufficient is useful,\\nAnd I wish all the world in its own way happy forever.\\nIndividual conception justified; larger enjoyment!\\n220.\\nNothing so strong as revolt gainst millenial suppression.\\nRemember that, Boanerges of subjugation\\nPreaching the ox-yoke doctrine, not that of light burden.\\nVesuvian millenium of political scoriae\\nWill make a Pompeii of any forefathers system.\\nLeaving you glad to run stark from the wreck of your temples.\\nThe bruised gods and crumbled fanes of all you have worshipped.\\nFrance exploded on less than two hundred years of suppression\\nBecause six generations of nobles were serious and funless,\\nFor your Frenchman, when not bent on pleasure, is graver than puritan.\\nNext time France will burst with more science as well as more glory.\\nBut I trust in the comic editors to soften the future.\\nAs the faithful provokers of inappeasable laughter\\nWhich not always stops to distinguish the fun from the joker,\\nAnd as being in duty bound to provide it new objects,\\nThey might set up the hardships of nations as popular fun-themes\\nAnd jovially shake even Russia into disarmament.\\n214", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "Vv ^e know not what gods nor editors may do till we try them,\\nNeither what the comic States may do in Far Orient\\nFor a private door of their own to the theatre in China\\nWhen the curtain there drop on the open-door farce played by Britain.\\nPrices vary, or tariffs one-priced door would be too democratic.\\n221.\\nColonel Yell of Yellville is of many States and much Union\\nIn his personality centres, as in that of Colonel Rye of Ryeville,\\nAnd of Colonel Bourbon of Blue Grass this last best remembered\\nBy me and of all whom enough tales to found a republic\\nOf jokes, and to run it a hundred years, are still current.\\nCould these Colonels have had their way, late political problems\\nHad been debated to death not on field, but in tavern,\\nAnd our friend had been spared much expense and some bloodshed and\\nscandal.\\nAnd I hope that if ever the talkinghouse for disruption\\nBe mooted in Britain again, that these three foreign Colonels,\\nLawyers likewise, and deep in confusion of constitutions.\\nAnd thus obfuscaciously qualified for the office,\\nWill be invited by joint resolution of Parliament,\\nOr humble address to the throne, to come and be counsel\\nFor us in the circumstance, lucus a non lucendo,\\nEt non sequitur, et non importandum, so long as the merits\\nOf Rye and of Bourbon distillate shall be recognized\\nAs fitting preventative of heptarchical movement.\\n222.\\nThe greatest leader is merely the longest-lived vogue-master.\\nAlexander died drunk yours will die of another delirium.\\nSubstitute another vogue, and you spoil his vocation.\\nThe worst sort of good man left his fame in a vacuum of empire.\\nThis is pure politics, and is justified to keep principle\\nAway from the touch of the cranks, who cut it to pieces.\\n215", "height": "2727", "width": "2060", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "The cranks politics, of course, is not to permit this.\\nBut if your tactics last long enough to expose them.\\nThe public finally swings to your side with effusion.\\nAnd an avalanche of ballots promptly conceals them\\nAt the next election. Aged stagers are much the more dangerous,\\nThose whose minds confound g odliness with the needs of the people\\nTo live in a manner appreciative of godliness\\nTliose whom fortune and character raise above popular sympathy,\\nBad in nothing, narrowly active, and thoro ly puritan.\\nThe saint sainted by lack of temptation is beyond all exception\\nThe worst British subject in public life; have you measured him?\\n223.\\nCheer the day of liberty from buffoons of the forum\\nThat is, unless they pose there to amuse, not reform you,\\nThough sometimes reform is among the most comic of projects.\\nAs I said, tis in freeing the mind; but be pleasant about it,\\nSince sad is your plight if you need a professing reformer.\\nBut in that wondrous time about which I seek to be ominous\\nNumbers and arms will not be with the uniformed hirelings.\\nBut manifold private shot will magnify Lexington,\\nThe guerrilleros will overwhelm in the bushwhack.\\nThe whackers being the population embattled,\\nAnd shoot into disappearance those who oppose them,\\nThe mercenaries loyal to privilege and servitude,\\nAs fought the colonial braves against those in the open.\\nThose farmers in ambuscade, brave and famous forever.\\nAgainst those fools enough to expose themselves in the open,\\nFarmers sensibly sure to pick off with the least self-exposure\\nA principle which in campaigns I carefully practised.\\nBut referring back to the manifold private shooting,\\nA decade of soldiers will be no stronger against it\\nThan a mortar and pestle as fortress in staying a pestilence.\\nHe who dies armed for an error transforms not its character.\\nHis serenade, had he lived, might have been the rogue s quickstep.\\n5ifi", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "Respect, if you find it, his pluck, while rejecting his notion.\\nMy daily prayer is that we see it in time to avert it.\\nAnd that Britain achieve by monarchical evolution\\nInstead of the turbulence so distasteful to courtiers.\\nBe not alarmed by anything in this section;\\nTis but a stump canto on fighting and fooling and lying.\\nBoth sides make it interesting for each, and sales larger.\\n224.\\nGive us a day of repose on Great Britain as grabber!\\nYour homesteads are built on the land that she grabbed from first owners\\nAnd on what you have added by fitting your boots to her foot-tracks\\nIn a robber-wodd, though we find this so hard of confession.\\nYou have never repudiated the title nor legacy,\\nNor have the Fenii dwelling with you in vast numbers\\nWhose peculiar claims set them apart from all other dwellers,\\nAnd who are especially tender as to national title.\\nIf the red man put on our cheek the red iron, the Mexican\\nMay put it on yours and be justified, unless assumption\\nOf superiority constitute morals Mosaic\\nAnd sanctify force and anthropological plunder.\\nI am merely reviewing old themes not affirming opinion.\\n225.\\nWhen mankind shall have learned their success is due to conditions,\\nTo top-soil, deep loam, continentally spacious conditions.\\nNot to theory nor statist, the spell of new systems will vanish,\\nAnd the god who regrets the gift of free will may forgive us\\nAnd lead us not into temptation to imitate something\\nWhich the founders themselves in spite of themselves are outgrowing.\\nIt is hard to surpass by a handspring the system of ages.\\nNor can any foresee what the ages may do with the handspring.\\nTry not to prevent peoples founding the systems they wish for.\\nRegeneration gratuitous may not be justified\\n217", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "By the alien conditions whereon you may try to impose it\\nAnd by this you may even cease to be popular champion.\\nRegeneration involves ethnological problems\\nWhich cut-and-dried freedom solves not, and in which it may tyrannize-\\nNo system yet founded absolved the future from thinking\\nAs occasion might require of conditions presented\\nSuch as the founded system could not provide for.\\nThus without intention freedom may run into despotism\\nTjy the mere fact of lapsing from the intention original.\\nBut liberty was made not for thinkers but workers, you shout at me.\\nVery well I think you are likely to worK yourself out of it.\\nMuch thought was bestowed on it ere your first chance to fool with it.\\nI did not think alongside those who thought it out for you,\\nBut am old enough tO remember some, and their mind-work.\\nTheir intellectual activity and moral integrity\\nFind my easy reverence without regard to the ultimate.\\nT care nothing for monarchy simply because it is British.\\nI have lived with and studied all forms and deduced me a preference.\\nAnd have grown old with intent to be wholly impartial.\\nI neither reciprocate nor retaliate the envy\\nWhich the honest Longfellow wrote is the vice of republics.\\nWhich never accept a great man till they cannot deny him,\\nAnd then cling to him after he lapses from great man to demon.\\nTammany would wreck British moral sense, or be wrecked by it.\\nYe who have not made an ethical study of Tammany\\nKnow not that a fevv^ thousand alien political spoilsmen,\\nVoting solidly for the purpose, wrecked a national election\\nWhich, but for their votes, would have meant everything that it did net.\\nTo be free of Tammany monarchy I can stand much other,\\nMore especially since the apocalypse of Moss-Mazet.\\n226.\\nThe new woman may not be superior by reason of newness,\\nOr she may it all depends on the sort of the newness.\\nBut patriotism is in any case part of her outfit.\\n218", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "Why not double for her the vote universal already?\\nAnd if woman be better than man, then for reasons political\\nAnd ethical, I suggest that man be disfranchised,\\nSince man besmears duty by just so much as she cleanses\\nIn the equal view of true student and true politician.\\nBut she seeks with the male to apportion the masculine duties\\nWithout deigning to ask man to bear any part of her burdens\\nAnd without letting go of her grip in continuing the species.\\nIf this last how long will she last? And what genus of species\\nWill she reproduce Does this show that our god has grown tired of us.\\nAnd has set us in irony on to extirpate the stirpes?\\n227.\\nFor no cause grow seedy of morals nor spiteful of temper.\\nNothing else lets you down quite so quickly and far in your friendships\\nWhosoever demarked right and wrong demarked them forever.\\nWe may overstep and step back of the line, but not cut it,\\nAnd our duty is simple and pressing to learn more about it\\nThan the seesaw of sinning and praying the Lord to forgive us.\\nIf you be of a turn peculiarly pietistic.\\nAnd your son in the folly of youth should make light of policemen.\\nSay, those heavy policemen imported for bulk at Bulk City,\\nOr if he combine the foibles of avarice and finance,\\nNetting misdeal or misdeed instead of a fortune.\\nAnd receive as rev/ard long vacation at Dartmoor or Sing Sing,\\nDo not disown him nor blame him, but think of the cause of it.\\nHis inheritance was your vices instead of your piety,\\nAnd they were enough to stock up a new Satan, if wanted.\\nWhat you are is the thing you transmit, not what you would like to be.\\nUnless you can safely bet on a fluke of the spirit.\\nDo not trouble a book that takes other views of this subject.\\nBy imagination you cannot get rid of heredity,\\nSince imagination itself is part of heredity,\\nAlthough liable to the general freaks of transmission^\\n219", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "Think of that when you impiously deem that your god has been hard with\\nyou.\\nAnd if, rather than vile, you be good, apply the same reasoning.\\nEither way the result will justify you and the reasoning.\\nHe had ethnically missed that which, could we always inherit it,\\nWould have made our world long ago the abode of the sanctified.\\nHad his dower been only your virtues, it might have been other.\\nHe might not have dallied with avarice, policemen and finance,\\nAs you might have dallied like him in an equal temptation.\\nMay be he absorbed all the bad of yourself and his mother\\nAnd none of the good sometimes nature in freaks is sardonic.\\nLet us learn to be slow to condemn and be swift to examine.\\nSome day ethics and ethnics will settle these things on their merits.\\nSo making us wdser and leaving us proud of our patience.\\n228.\\nPeter Faneuil, of Huguenot descent, was a freehanded Yankee\\nIn colonial days, when Yankee was Indian for English.\\nHe built Boston a Hall which that city will ever be proud of,\\nAs I shall forever be proud of the city that owns it.\\nAll great movements not earthquakes that stir up our planet and others\\nMust therein be discussed, as they liave been for more than a century.\\nBefore they are fit for adoption in this world or any.\\nI mean this sincerely, for Boston will not bite at tafify.\\nFaneuil Hall has never been damned except by the Fenii,\\nWho rioted once because it was rented to Britons\\nOn terms the same as those whereon Fenii had used it.\\nThis exhibits just the esteem in which Fenii hold freedom.\\nI honor myself, not this Hall, by the mention I make of it\\nIn all the list tis the happiest, the quaintest and breeziest,\\nAlthough Halls, as the rule, are the homes of immature enterprise.\\nOld Exeter Hall to me lacked the freshness of Faneuil\\nBut London makes new things look older than old things in Boston,\\nAnd Faneuil, I deem, is several times older than Exeter.\\nNor can I see why it was named for the great town of Devon,\\n220", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "The big county of beef, mutton, butter and beautiful women.\\nYork itself, although larger, is not more imperial than Devon,\\nAnd, as Fluellen would say, they both have cathedrals.\\nBut in Exeter I found nothing that seemed transcendental\\nRather much solid county pride I observed in the county\\nOf Sir Francis Drake, Admiral Blake, General Monk and John Churchill,\\nAnd others of fame worthy Milton to group them in muster,\\nWho was sonorous with angels and devils, but missed the Devonians\\nGreat men in their day, and none can be great in another s\\nWhere gentlemen live who envy not London to live in\\nFor, as one of them told me, any fellow can be a Londoner,\\nBut a gentleman is required to be an Exeter man.\\n229.\\nThe church beneficiary lives by the martyr of science\\nIf we consider the Pope and Columbus together.\\nFor one fate of Columbia has been to furnish much money.\\nWhereby Popes, even as anti-popes, have failed not to profit.\\nAnd properly too, since nothing can go without money.\\nThis is doubtless all right in the economics beyond us,\\nSince the true God has science in hand as well as religion.\\nAnd in time will develop them both to our purified vision.\\nIt is not his fault if he did not intend us to see this\\nUntil, in his juc^gment, not ours, we were ripe for the knowledge;\\nYet it may be the density of our egoism blinds us\\nTo what might appear, would we be just a little less selfish.\\nIn ratio as self is eliminate from identity\\nThe heart grows larger and warmer, the intelligence clearer.\\nMind sounder, more self-reliant without self-opinion.\\nThis is experience, not theory I had to grow old to attain it.\\nAnd you, theologian, are not exempt from, this error,\\nFor you naturally love the emoluments of your duty.\\nWheresoever you know not enough to make conscience the larger\\nAnd freer and clearer, you train it into a formula\\nOr a dozen this eases your office, but makes life more gloomy\\n221", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "For the soul which you seek to keep true by keeping it narrow.\\nDollar and dogma must not prevail as the cult of the planet.\\nThis is not a preach, but a notion not even a new one.\\n230.\\nWestward the Inds of the East, unless land intervene there,\\nFor eighteen vears cried Columbus in court and in corner,\\nNor swerved from that faith, nor from West by the thrill of the needle.\\nBut land did intervene, still leaving the Orient to westward.\\nAnd the giant sailor was true at all points of the compass.\\nConsider how much the world owes the religion of science,\\nAnd forget not how much that faith owes to complete its pretensions.\\nThough the son of the goddess be slain at her shrine, his truth shines there\\nAnd the faith of Columbus was greater than all which it lead to,\\nThe altar-light answering the candle that showed the first landfall.\\n231.\\nThe next great prophet will be the disclaimant of prophecy.\\nBy leaving the great head to others and wearing the school cap.\\nHe will command more joint study and faith from the peoples.\\nWho like it that prophets assume that the people know something.\\nThis will set you a-dreaming of higher personal destiny.\\nAnd of national destinies built on higher personalities\\nAll evolved from the inward god, if you think you contain him,\\nThe successful seer is he who bets wisely on knowledge\\nOf nature on what men will do within given conditions.\\nBut to discern present good is the gift of most value.\\nIf you were sure of the future, you still could not live in it,\\nBrokeri threads of discourse may be of themselves a diversion,\\nRelieving the mind from the application of logic,\\nOr from continued strain when the theme is unworthy.\\nA great statesman once told me Don Juan is the greatest of poems\\nBecause, other merits being equal, it makes no exactions.\\nBacon s essays are very abrupt as to classification,", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "And Emerson shows no respect to the dovetail of thinking\\nFlashes of Hghtning in thought correlating each other.\\nA certain abruptness of thought is refreshing and stimulant.\\nThis explains the queer juxtaposition of some of my cantos.\\n232.\\nCivilization at home you denounce as imperfect,\\nYet you spread it abroad with the money and blood of your children,\\nWhile reconcentrados abound in Manhattan and London,\\nFor I know them in both. Suppose we reverse the proportion\\nOf the beatified vices of lucky minorities\\nvVhich masquerade in the guise of the virtues they smother.\\nSeek ye to give currency to the blood of high principle\\nThrough the veins of the race tatoo not the skin of society\\nWith the forms and colors that press themselves into the senses\\nWhile the heart is an air-pump of cant, with the conscience in vacuo,\\nEver ready to work at the tasks that are never attempted.\\nThere is no intention of dogmatism in this canto.\\nIf you hire a hall, first make sure of the ventilation,\\nFor animal matter predominates at reunions\\nAnd will till the spirit there worshipped shall make them superfluous.\\nWinter mass-meetings are best the weather prevents them\\nAnd your strong resolutions to get into trouble with somebody.\\nGreat thoughts set afloat in foul air appear grimly ironic.\\nCan you heed sound advice while inhaling inimical ether?\\nBetter, O orator, take some advice about ether\\nDo us good with good air as part of your scheme of enlightenment.\\nIt is more in accord with the civilization you are airing.\\n233.\\nCease bragging and take up the difficult duty of thinking I\\nYet some great minds aver that keeping time-pieces and thinking\\nAre wearing our race out with inconclusions and hurry.\\nIf you think so, perhaps you would better not do any thinking.\\n223", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "The prophet am I who affirms not, but asks your decision,\\nPresenting you first certain propositions of nature,\\nEven though they carry us back to the Garden of Eden,\\nOf snakes, fruit, and beauty; primasval passion and sadness.\\nPrimogeniture, and long human descent from assassin\\nThe first spot in our cognizance and the last to be proud of.\\nThe nihilist is a descendant of Cain is it wonder\\nThat he will follow his second ancestor s example\\nIf government, food and society all be against him?\\nYou too are descended from Cain; will you give him these chances\\nAnd punish him for the sequence of his heredity?\\nWe are demons all from the autocrat to the democrat,\\nThose in command no better than those who are seeking it,\\nYet charged with the task of finding appeasable systems.\\nAppease him with something to do more substantial than nihil\\nCain blood feeding Cain blood is a process less costly than fighting it.\\nI put this on ground no higher than that of economy.\\nAll established orders are more or less menaced by nihilism.\\nDemocracy being at the point where profession and practice\\nAre equally most in contradiction and contact,\\nShould be first to explain the relations of people to people\\nWhether democracy s final motto is ne plus ultra.\\nBut if it be that of democracy, it is not of nature,\\nWhich instead of adjusting herself to established conditions,\\nMakes conditions and forces conform to her, or destroys them.\\nThus our hopes are in nature, unless I misunderstand her\\nSometimes slow with her snail, again sudden in power with Vesuvius.\\nAmong issues by nature negatived, one is equality,\\nExcept as a basis for working out the unequal.\\nNo dogma here. God will let somebody live to the end of it.\\nAnd he will be happy in wagging the flag of the winner.\\nMen younger than I have seen heresy changed into gospel.\\nAnd men equally old have seen gospel glide into heresy\\nAnd men of various ages have seen many stages\\nOf effort collapse, and have lapsed and said nothing about it.\\n224", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "234-\\nMore economic thought and less thunder of thorax,\\nYe who are shotted with speech for the conquest of commerce,\\nWhose opinions resound hke the rattle of misspent cloud-volley.\\nEcho of nothing where silence and sunshine resume themselves gladly.\\nUnion of interests, not the cost of their ruin, will pay you.\\nCommerce cannot be conquered by speech-thunder, army nor navy,\\nBince nothing but commerce in some form can pay to support them.\\nWill you wreck trade existent wdiile seeking new commerce, O Kaiser?\\nCreative conditions would operate to regain it,\\nTo the regaining of trade by the race which first built it.\\nIf yon ponder the terms you will not be too swift in beginning\\nTo take all the seas to yourself and the ports of the planet.\\nAnd meantime the business is sunk that had yielded you living.\\nNo commerce, inflated currency, and more taxes;\\nEvery condition reversed which runs with prosperity.\\nThis would attract that all-daylight comedian the farmer,\\nWhose inexpensive life is so loaded with pleasure\\nThat he would like just a dash of the pain of taxation\\nAs a sort of rounder-out in the ring of experience.\\nI refer more especially now to the life of John Roudebush,\\nOn whose acres the sun never shone but to show him a-tilling,\\nAnd from which he secured just sufficient to die by at eighty,\\nWell taxed the while for the wars of political jingoes,\\nDes escamoteurs du journalisme et du patriotisme,\\nWho bet on the youth of the land to sustain their pretences,\\nTo shed their blood in the scheme to make newspapers richer.\\nTo extend the dominion and tighten the gripe of the dailies.\\nI blame nobody, criticize nothing business is business\\nWith them as with me if I could quintuple my income\\nI should promptly quintuple, expecting the press to try likewise.\\n235-\\nThat primal sincerity which inspires lofty causes\\nAnd maintains a new truth till its force becomes fixt in a statute,\\n225", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "I have learned is not the prime purpose in pubhshing papers.\\nExperience is a sad tiprooter of noble convictions,\\nYet noble errors ought not to exist as convictions.\\nThe press espouses such causes vi^hen martyrs compel it,\\nThe victims of movements which live not till somebody dies for them.\\nSweet Sunday sentiment floating on summer verandah,\\nOr log-fire suggestions that spurt in the heart of the winter\\nWhen the log-light alone is aflame in the hearth-lover s fancy,\\nHave no part in the plans leading up to the vineyard of Naboth.\\nThe jingoes invent a dilemma and write it up popular.\\nTheir occupation were gone had it not this inception,\\nAnd the people lack the facilities for refuting it.\\nThe politicians seize promptly the newspaper tirade,\\nThereby floating the curse of war, and the nation supports it,\\nThough not on a poll of the sense of the mass in its senses\\nVirtuous motives, of course, being exploited after the victory.\\nSuspect the low cunning of jingo as a cold deck at poker,\\nSons o Freedom, whether played on you by highscribe or shouter.\\n236.\\nWhatsoever else dodges taxes, land certainly pays them.\\nHenry George will be universally recognized some day,\\nAnd most gladly by those now the least disposed to accept him.\\nThe first creditor is the plow, said Ned Burke about India.\\nThe farmers are the founders of human civilization.\\nSaid Dan Webster; a man of great gifts in making impressions.\\nWherever they go, added Webster in meeting bucolic,\\nAll else follows, but they must go first and be first for assessment.\\nWho will tax himself that another may perish of famine?\\nWhat industry can pay mulct for suppressing another?\\nI humbly suggest more thought, and less fooling and thunder.\\n237-\\nThe conquest of commerce will follow wise laws as to currency\\nAnd commerce itself; laws better than any existent,\\n226", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "Which invite and facilitate, with good faith and good manners\\nWhich operate with mutual favor instead of repelling\\nQualities in which France is sadly deficient toward Britain,\\nBut which France, who must never be trusted, will deplore with effusion.\\nThe God who set industry up as the law of our living\\nIntended it not as the victim of selfishness savage\\nAnd bloody autocracy, whether of one mian or millions.\\nPrivilege cut off from the few and bestowed on the many\\nIs autocracy worse than that of the absolute monarch.\\nI can appeal to the Czar, but not to ten million czars,\\nStatute law is void where the partisan fears to enforce it\\nLest the party adhering to treaty be put in minority\\nAt the next election because popular will is against it.\\nFilibustero Americano had no rights in Cuba\\nExcept that of being put to death for the breaking of treaty\\nAnd for rough red crime in violating law in that island\\nYet the States were afraid to enforce the treaty that bound them\\nIn universal law as in honor and morals\\nAnd thence came the courage of war through the fear of the parties.\\nDemocracy being the latest organized system\\nOf responsible government, must meet criticism like monarchy.\\nIt is apt to set up demagogues as an oligarchy\\nAnd thus double it up; both the few and the many as tyrant.\\nGod s orders may not be evaded by song, dance and usquebaugh\\nUnless in the instances in which Tammany dictates.\\nNot a ton of trade can be conquered but by higher justice.\\nTill that come the wisest will hold what he has and deserve it.\\nDo not shout about this until after protracted, deep thinking.\\nOr shout loud and long as you can, to prevent you from thinking.\\nRussia will give to the States any warrant requested\\nTill the Siberian Railway be opened, then millions of soldiers\\nWill line the Chinese coasts whereon Muscovite explanation\\nWill neutralize all guarantees and the Yangtsekiang valley\\n227", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "For Britain, as well as the treaty-ports for the Yankee,\\nWill be subject to tariff for profit of subjects of Russia.\\nToo late are ye, States you ought to have made cause with Britain\\nWhen Lord Beresford showed the joint value of open-door policy.\\n238.\\nAn exhaustive work is the least influential of any\\nBecause it is also exhausting; if you make it suggestive\\nThe reader is sure to exhaust for himself all he wishes,\\nxA-nd take pride in the author for having excited ideas\\nInstead of loading him up with your own limitations.\\nI could easily prove many things in this book, but prove nothing,\\nBecause you would cry that mere proof is my point, and disprove it,.\\nOr prove something else as far as Luzon from my topic.\\n]\\\\Iathematics, to which nobody appeals who can help it.\\nAnd from which there is no appeal, as a source of amusement\\nCompares not with sermon by Knox on the errors not Knox s.\\n239-\\nMistake me not for a pessimist. I am an optimist\\nWho clearly and cheerfully shows there is nothing in anything.\\nWe have gone far enough to call something a civilization.\\nThough we dare not describe it in full to good sense nor to conscience.\\nV/e should be further ahead were it not for a reason I name not.\\nWhen a great man has led the way up to the mark, the small gentry\\nVociferate that they could have reached it without him,\\nThus explaining their own existence by stealing his glory.\\nA career is what predilection chooses to make it.\\nOr that to which malice or prejudice fixes the stigma.\\nThe freisinnigge fellows can never* do justice to Bismarck,\\nWho, uniting their race, built a nation thereon and an empire\\nThe people s father, the Fiirst, the surpasser of Armin,\\nWhose vice equalled his virtue in everything but importance.\\n228", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "The freisinnigg-e sect would have rendered such empire impossible\\nAnd the Germanic race without place among peoples.\\n240.\\nThe past is less one vast fact for mankind than a figment,\\nLike the future a fiction established a vision from sternwalk\\nLike the receding stars, monumental, immortal,\\nWhether they shine above or below the horizon,\\nBut casting no light on the page of the ship s destination;\\nOne a mere fad for discussion, the other for prophecy,\\nWith the present a limbo of chance not related to either,\\nSince the present is lacking in mind for correlative fitting.\\nGive me the light o er the bow for the prow of my sport-boat\\nEvery ship s length sailed gives me so much of yacht-fun Dionysan\\nWith a bigger past, sunset by sunset, and future exhaustless.\\nFor I doubt that Dionysus could now find a port should he wish one.\\nSo changed are the laws about piracy, pleasure and commerce.\\nAnd so long as I make not a landfall my voyage is eternal.\\n241.\\n1 have survived from the reign of King Richard the Second\\nWho dined ten thousand friends every day hence my optimism\\nAnd pessimism have a dash of the mediaeval,\\nOf the time before coal had made London so rich and disfigured.\\nIn that epoch we did not trouble ourselves about progress\\nTwas a white-rose period till the red gave it ominous shading.\\nWe were as blind as the moderns concerning the future\\nAnd tried not, as you do, to discount it into the present,\\nContent with a city that paid not with soot for its riches.\\nWe had just as much relative luck, and more fun, and less ofifset\\nWith Richard the liberal, beautiful, proud and unhappy\\nBorn to luck, which is vastly less lucky than having to earn it.\\n242.\\nA purpose has been to keep poetry out of my metre.\\nPray note my success by your cubic share of afflatus.\\n229", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "Some call it great head, but afflatus is much the more rhythmic.\\nStill others say genius but genius has come to seem comic.\\nYet I advocate the great head not the less fifty failures\\nTo one success make one man and the world more successful\\nThan they were, and they can afiford to see fifty unhappy\\nIf they be ahead tis but bearing the sorrows of others.\\nMoreover, dispraise of great head makes a spoil of ambition.\\nConstant ridicule breaks up your purpose at last, and you issue\\nNot glad to be anything; proud to be trifler with all things.\\nTherefore let us respect the great head, even while it diverts us.\\nThis book will be read by the men who have failed they will like it.\\nThis book will be read by the men who have won they will hate it,\\nBecause it exposes their luck masquerading as judgment.\\nA secular bible for those who are beaten in the conflicts\\nOf secular life has long been a want the successful\\nNever read anything excepting their own private tablets.\\nThe milestones or yardsticks which measure their ways to their innings.\\nAnd so few arc they tis not dangerous to defy them.\\nI am consequently sure of a large circulation.\\n243-\\nI quarrel with nothing per se, but request some big citizen\\nTo be prompt in calling the bluft of the Pluti of politics.\\nA tariff is made in the shops that require its protection\\nAnd goes through the constitutional forms of enactment.\\nOne result is that some foreign wares are lower than British in Britain.\\nThe Plutus partisan says this is due to the artisan\\nWho knows British wants and supplies them better than Britons.\\nThis is bluff and not truth for these grasping political Pluti\\nTaking vantage of their masses infatuated\\nWith the shibboleth of protection, charge double prices\\nTo their countrymen in order to undersell Britons\\nIn Britain. The day of reckoning will come to these Pluti\\nWhen an electoral majority shall drop to their racket,\\nAnd a foreign people shall quit paying two or three profits\\n230", "height": "2791", "width": "1915", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "To their millionaires that they may starve Britons in Britain.\\nThis truth becomes self-evident by its statement.\\nMeanwhile call the bluff loud enough to break up the gamble\\n243^-\\nIndividuals quick to perceive may be slow in the aggregate\\nBut this aggregate when campaigned enough in the verities\\nVotes the other way at high pressure tis thus that democracy\\nIn its activities is the slowest as well as the most tidal-wavy.\\nBut the taxing-power of the state as the citizen s partner\\nIs played out for plucking the mass for the millionaire s coffers.\\nThis is the last of the decades for fortunes so garnered\\nAnd may be the first to suggest the distributive forces.\\n244.\\nSet not your nose as in pose of a smell everlasting\\nWhen there is nothing to smell. This refers to a Senator\\nWho set the world laughing as puritan only can start it\\nBecause President would not debate on a foreign Queen s morals.\\nVerily the godly continue as fearless of manners\\nAs when they held manners an affectation ungodly\\nBy curriculum both theologic and social.\\nPretense of candor conceals not its lack from sincerity.\\nBe more frank in recalling your few sprees of youth, and the many\\nWherefrom the contractile cube of your pocket deterred you,\\nSenator, perhaps gray and old by mere fact of deterrence.\\nThe hard fate which withholds from soft sins is not always a hardship.\\n245-\\nNow, concerning the wrongs and false orders of civilization\\nWhereof Britain pretends to be mistress and hopes to improve it,\\n1 do not care to be at all easy with Britain.\\n231", "height": "2791", "width": "1915", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "Her row is hard, but is mainly self-made might be harder.\\niWill she take a blow indirect from the rich gueuse of nations?\\nIf she do, may all Asia laugh in her face for a humbug\\nAnd invite her, a penitent Eve unworthy an Adam,\\nToo contemptible to be worthy even an Adam,\\nTo the Garden of Eden alone, not a mistress of empires,\\nBut alone to reform and reorganize her pretensions.\\nI am inclined to the Germans, but not to their Kaiser.\\nSince his sudden impertinent attempt on the Transvaal,\\nAlthough he was bought to be good by some later concessions.\\nBut let that people think deeply on British experience\\nIn setting up the chance Oi secession as part of a colony\\nWhen its day comes for paying part of the cost of defending it.\\nA rich nation not allied is poor by gratuitous rivals.\\nWho, not up to its tasks, simply covet the luck of another.\\nWe need always a hundred thousand more men with the colors.\\n246.\\nI seek not to inscribe my own praise with the pen of the patriot.\\nFor truly I deem the estate the last refuge of fellows\\nWho become public men because private life tires of their virtues.\\nDeroulede deroule Ic mobile and I leave him the honors,\\nWith his quiet three months for noisily hooting his President.\\nA people requiring so much whooping-up is not worth it.\\nHad he died after Chants du Soldat his race would have deified him.\\nBut most patriots live too long for their luck and their glory.\\nHeart of people and patriot grow weary one of another\\nIn time, and what next will he do is the query of cynics\\nWho were formerly worshippers and then passe is the patriot.\\nThe raison d etre of an army is not in the army\\nBut in its purpose it is triste to regard it as fetich.\\nBut Deroulede will in story be big, and will merit his size there.\\nBut I would rather be critic than shouter in patriotism.\\nNot mine to flourish the sign of political Pourceaugnac,\\nBut to ponder transcendent issues domestic and foreign\\n232", "height": "2801", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "Till their weight overbear me before I can clear up an issue.\\nI wish I could shut out the truth like a crank of symposium,\\nOr some fellows who brought on two wars, with neither war needed.\\nBut I am not a turtle at play on the sea-beach of freedom\\nTo draw myself into my shell with the foe in the offing.\\nThe wages of sin is death and the wages of error\\nNot more satisfactory shall Great Britain collect them\\n247.\\nA. quadrennial republic, not very much smaller than China,\\nTurning outward its inwardness for political funsters,\\nMay seem a colossal farce to the Queen of Hawaii,\\nWho has her own views of the comic, though you may not share them,\\nThis microscopic ex-Oueen of those Sugar-Tipt Corals,\\nA.nd might chirrup so lowly and sweetly that you could not hear her,\\nSo small she was and so far from the din of your interests.\\nBut you went aghast at this little Black Domino s daring\\nThe suppression of which was first clause in the creed of your duty.\\niSFothing comic to you in the loss of an opera-bouffe kingdom\\nBy the woman who lived, loved and reigned like the little Grand Duchess,\\nA.nd as every such woman has lived, loved and reigned, and you know it\\nA.lthough nothing like her out of Ofifenbach seems quite so funny\\nFrom Japan to Britannia outside your huge partisan circles,\\nTrue, almighty self-justifier, democratic or nothin\\nThis sweet status quo would suggest a libretto hilarious,\\nOr a fresh status quo, any quo would be sure to be comic,\\nIf Gilbert could long enough conquer his laughter to write one.\\nWith Sir Arthur exhausting the airs of the cane-brake to float it.\\nHooked on to a high moral task, you are grim even to sarcasm.\\nVour dignity and your chastity equal your area\\nAs you deal with this little black Queen in the Central Pacific,\\nWhile my statesman of nostrils expanded smells nothing in Mazet,\\nThough the arcs at the tip of his nose still retain their full curve-lines.\\nWhy not take the Offenbach view of this strained situation\\nAnd giantly laugh with that woman of color off color,\\n233", "height": "2801", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "And thus jointly end it as I would? Your size was your safety;\\nHers was not microscopic Lil of the Saccharine Sandhills.\\nAlas that the moral should sprout with the profits that grow there\\n248.\\nBelief in personal god carries with it the credence\\nThat personified principle attracts and assures the most loyalty.\\nMasses, classes, equality editors, professional patriots\\nWhen well mixt for the raising of themes unto human confusion,,\\nFind god in everything whether personal or impersonal\\nMakes no difference for the purpose of human confusion.\\nGod in everything signifies not too much god in anything,\\nAnd suggests the self-worship of man for the god that is in him\\nAs preferable to adoring the dumbness of nature,\\nThe irresponsive monotony of the m_ountains\\nAnd other big things always needing interpretation.\\nAnd variable according to udiim of the worshipper\\nMillion worshippers with whims and gods by the million.\\nThus concrete loyalty in such absence of system\\nCannot exist outside of the individual,\\nWho is loyal to god in himself, or volcano, or anything.\\nThere is no intended abuse or misuse in this canto.\\nNor in any let us be candid, colloquial, unstilted.\\nWliile loyalty stays in abstractions you may embody it\\nAs well as another and this keeps yoii always an egotist\\nAnd if you prefer to remain one, whether in government\\nOr religious or social contact, I give up the argument.\\nWhereas if another embody it first you are loyal\\nIn a higher air you would not be god if you could there,\\nSince extinction is sweeter than aspiration exhausted.\\nAnd the god, being complete, extinguishes aspiration.\\nHow would you feel without hope or fear as a human,\\nWithout aspiration, wish, want or yearn to be satisfied\\nI would stay as I am and have something to fight for and win on,.\\nAnd die as I might, or I must, but with loyalty in me.\\n234", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "Am I an egotist Yes, but for helping the altruist\\nThe force of the ego is sanctified in that purpose\\nBut not in another, and must not be carried beyond it.\\nOnly the Tammany classification of wisdom\\nPretends that a gang is sanctified by mere numbers.\\nThe point here is not politico-social, but moral\\nIt transcends tiger-yells, whooping-up and all self-satisfaction.\\nDo not live wrongly ever, feigning to deem you live rightly.\\nSuch pretence, in the end, will eat out the heart of a people.\\nBe not too sure of monarchy nor of democracy\\nAs they at present exist I am not fighting principles\\nW h the top too narrow and basis too broad, and no gradient.\\nIf the buffing body come in a form economic\\nYou v/ill be buffed off but I say no more about buffing.\\nIf I be your rival on parallel lines, do not shoot me\\nWe are side by side I am not in the way of your progress.\\nTis an argument in my favor that I can be rival\\nTo one so big, new and true as you are in dealings.\\nDo not sink to be crank from anger, nor envy, nor egoism.\\n249.\\nWe so often sacrifice Moses to bring out some talent\\nThat the talent outlives not the frown of the seer, as it ought not,\\nNeither ambition nor science can overrule morals\\nAnd gain any permanent benefit for the humans.\\nNot theocracy nor republicanism could tranquillize Cromwell\\nNo fate more humiliating than that of Lord Bacon.\\nSome titan occult, just a dash more astute than your gift-man,\\nSardonic through long misuse of his patience, yet playful,\\nConducts into disappearance the car of his genius\\nBecause he was shallow and rash, though he may not so see it,\\nAnd his little life is thus wrecked by its vain misdirection.\\nFor a steady career I advise the omission of genius.\\n235", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "250.\\nI would rather be Jason still cruising for treasure ideal,\\nPulling plain wool over rival eyes chasing the golden,\\nHunting rich sheep more evasive as sailors than I am,\\nThan be drifting in fields where the treasure is only self-worship\\nOf those flattened out by the rolling-pin of equality\\nWhile waiting till evolution provide other object.\\nHigh table-land if you choose, tis the grave of ambition\\nWhere I kneel to myself on the summit of limitation\\nAnd find my monotonous friend at his own adoration.\\nNo matter how high the dead level, tis dead when you reach it\\nA divide continental whence gravitation is deepward,\\nWhere a geyser splits up for four creeks to be lost in four oceans.\\nLeave us not without hope on this plain give us something to climb for\\n251.\\nLet us see if there be in the dismal science some laughter\\nOr if not, then at me for the way I explain economics.\\nIt matters not who takes the hits so we get the amusement,\\nAnd the referee will call break ere the cranium be injured.\\nThe chief trouble with those who write about economics\\nIs in taking themselves too seriously; tis so hard to be easy.\\nThey are so impressed with the weight of their own impressiveness\\nThat the ink almost disintegrates on their pen-points.\\nNowhere else is the great head so great, nor endowments so varied\\nSo high, wide, correct, contradictory and unflinching.\\nIt will always be thus till some Falstafif of mathematicians\\nShall capsize the lot, setting us right with the figures of humor.\\nA rich government means a poor people; then wherefore enrich it?\\nIs your genius inventing new intricacies for amusement.\\nOr are you magnetized by mere size of the subject?\\nThe sense and good taste of the plebs in abusing patricians\\nAre at par with those of the opulent damning plebeians.\\n236", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "Let us begin an entente based on mutual civility;\\nWe might thence build a system of economics on ethics.\\n252.\\nNo government can create from Sahara a cornfield\\nThe people do that and the government taxes them for it,\\nAnd sometimes they use up rich cornfields that were not Saharas\\nBy providing too many mouths let us see how this strikes you.\\nThe Three Kingdoms contain twenty millions who eat foreign produce\\nOr eat nothing that is their choice will the Commons protect them\\nWithout ministerial initiative, or leave them to famine\\nIn the fool s palace while somebody seizes our commerce\\nIn the midst of immortal talk about more talking-houses\\nOne right of freedom is to talk itself into destruction\\nWhile claiming more of itself for itself than is useful.\\nThe joy of the autocrat overflows when he sees this right working.\\nLet twelve hundred Parliamentarians waste time and money\\nOn domestic improvements, while running behind with the Navy\\nAnd Army, and manifest destiny, which began here\\nIn Britain, will manifest itself in some other empire\\nWith another tongue, ours not being up to such greatness.\\nIs the British Empire to drop to the rank of the Portuguese,\\nWith all things to sell and nothing to eat as the difference,\\nIn this year or any I do not set up a time-limit.\\nNeither fix the blame on any particular Ministry;\\nOne is the same as another to me, for a winner\\nAnother to me is the same as the one, for a loser.\\nWe must be strong or be starved, and no midway plaisance.\\nWill the Commons make this the motto for all preaching Cabinets?\\nIf the States must inherit us ultimately, let us leave them\\nThe indisputable power, a fortune centupled.\\nThis will keep them careful and friendly while waiting the legacy.\\nThey are never sordid, we know they are circumspect only.\\n237", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "253-\\nLet us chop logic together, but not on false premises.\\nRecall that this is a comedy; nothing is tragic\\nI tell not here how it will end, but the end will be happy.\\nWhat appears serious is simply well feigned from the comic,\\nBecause serious conceptions of anything are merely relative\\nAnd result from inadequate intelligence and instruction.\\nMartin Luther is lauded for what he would have prevented\\nThe logical outcome of his reform made him sorry\\nAnd frightened but this is of course concealed by his partisans.\\nBut is not the comic element strong in the praises\\nGiven a man for attempting one task and achieving another\\nOne may represent God to the end, yet may see not the ending.\\nNo irreverence here for, whether as prophet or accident.\\nNo providence has been greater for freedom than Luther.\\nVast individual fortunes are fine for their owners,\\nBut they do not make any people any the richer.\\nThat is the principal text of the future economy.\\nThere is a fine wildness in thinking of Richard the Second\\nFeeding ten thousand men per day, though scarce ten deserved it.\\nThe Pacific Railways bestowed on few men many millions\\nBut the masses, as such, acquire their cheap transportation\\nBy Canadian Pacific from the Pacific to Shawmut,\\nAnd the millionaires promptly tariff the mass from its freedom.\\nDividends is the cry, though they come out of forced contributions.\\nWill these transcontinentals permit success to Nicaragua?\\nWith a million mine own, I simply retire to cut coupons,\\nOr with ten any large sum will do tO illustrate the principle.\\nAlthough nobody borrows my capital simply to please me.\\nYet I take a low interest for safety and live like an oyster.\\nWhat to me is public spirit against private compound interest?\\nHave I not five hundred a day at a single per centum\\nTen with a tenth of a million must work to make more of it.\\nAnd make work for a dozen where I make but work for a unit.\\nYet if I invest my uncapitalized friends might absorb me,\\n238", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "I mean my small pile, while wrecking themselves and me also.\\nThus the capitalist is not the only bad fairy do you see this\\nI am safe while you fail or succeed, and am perfectly neutral.\\nNothing- simpler nor clearer, and yet Temescal may contest it,\\nThat county with tin gods, tin nobles and tariff all tinless.\\nWhat do you think of Temescal as tin-suzerain\\nBy comparison Tennyson s county god was a footman\\nYet Aylmer owned land, if not tin, and Temescal no tin\\nIdealize nothing and lie, and so become suzerain.\\nLie and persist, and so become land-or-tin-suzerain.\\nCapitalize nothing and sell its bonds at a premium.\\nThis is somewhere called financiering; what do you call it?\\nThen persuade your country to spread a tariff all over it.\\nThis is for sport, with tin suzerain lighthearted as I am.\\nTemescal was a giant joke whose foot covered a count}\\nAs he called for investments that came not to poor California,\\nAnd I have decided to give it a place in fun-history.\\n254-\\nJohn and William are brothers and rich while they were unwealthy\\nI used to wait several days to collect my commissions.\\nNow I have none to collect; my argument, therefore,\\nFavors small men who can pay in the end, even if laggard.\\nIf I cannot have these I must favor cooperation.\\nIf not that, I strike like Tammany at Manhattan.\\nOne of the means of distributing fortunes colossal\\nIs to make laws that will drive them to some other country.\\nDistribution, you see, works both ways one you like, and one I like.\\nIf you drive fortunes to me by law, I am not poorer.\\n255-\\nAs hitherto known, does democracy wish for the gentleman?\\nAs either was hitherto known For may be the democrat\\nIs only half of himself, and likewise the gentleman,\\n239", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "Each unaware of his ignorance; but both have a chance here.\\nShriek not about snobs if you answer, keep close to the topic.\\nDo not forget that this question is wholly conditional\\nAnd with Demos and Pericles brought into stunning suggestion.\\nKeep your howitzer still on the hip this theme is immortal\\nTill somebody give it the answer that shows its mortality.\\nI am not trilling these notes for suspending discussion:\\nThis, to intellectual life in high form, is essential.\\nA man leaves a country wherein he was not rated gentlemar\\nAnd goes to a country where no man can be not a gentleman\\nAnd immediately joins the band which settles the question\\nFor both by accentuating the difference of premise\\nA good way to settle it saves us much waste of persuasion.\\nBut the party who last joined the band declines to accept it,\\nAnd vociferates, till the other is ready for suicide,\\nThat he is a gentleman perfect, though none has denied it\\nNor does, nor will yet this gentleman keeps on affirming.\\nThis seems a definition eclatante of gratuitous.\\nBut I leave you to place him somewhere twixt Demos and Pericles..\\n256.\\nThere was very much accident in Columbus and Franklin,\\nAnd notably in their luck in avoiding mischances\\nAn accident in itself, but of course in their favor.\\nColumbus just escaped foundering against his first landfall,\\nAnd Franklin just happened to miss being hit by the lightning.\\nAs a great man who earned without luck I prefer Daniel Webster,\\nWhose greatness was strictly impelling, without luck or money,\\nThough he might have been, spite of his seerage, too Julian in conscience.\\nBut a thoro ly selfish intellect without conscience,\\nIf policy make him and keep him defender of virtue..\\nIs the very best possible fellow for chief of your system,\\nBecause conscience bothers him not about personal scruples.\\nThis does not mean a bad man without mind, pray remember.\\n1 am humble enough, telling only an aged man s story,\\n240", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "But I see a race alien in faith adopting your politics\\nSolely to win your domain as the basis of empire\\nIndicated in Dante s Monarchia, but without its generosity,\\nAnd with all the despotism that goes with the conscience\\nCut off from enlightened mind. This idea I pray you to force into politics*\\nThey thank your forefathers\\nWith smiling irony for a system that eases\\nThe lives of their foreign successors, foreign in all things\\nAccepting their luck, which is irony on your fathers,\\nWho had cursed their own success could they have foreseen this,\\nThe Luthers they of what they would not have permitted\\nAdmiring the aureole ironic that lights up those foreheads\\nWho prepared the way for reviving mediaeval effort\\nFor revivifying in a fresh hemisphere the ages\\nCalled middle, midway between science and art theocratic\\nAnd the freedom to think outside of pontific prescription\\nDemocracy used to reestablish theocracy\\nBy destroying democracy, not to preserve it by nursing\\nFifty denominations now freely dotting its acres.\\nEvery warning effective possesses a biblical virtue.\\nI have shouted my little observance you know how to heed it.\\n257.\\nPhilanthropy and capital are antagonistic,\\nSince merely to give away surplus is not true philanthropy.\\nOne will always be sacrificed, but it will not be capital.\\nPhilanthropy signifies love of man, not of hoarding\\nThat in the technical sense you may be philanthropic.\\nDo not dump in a charity lump the wages you paid not,\\nThe percentage whereby you grew opulent in withholding.\\nShow your love by not grasping, your courage by not dodging issues.\\nWhen I dogmatize, even in fun, you need not agree with me.\\nBecause there is sport in antagonizing the fun-men\\nWhen not comic, the most serious of men is the comic editor.\\n241", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "To stop anarchy by taxation you put it on income.\\nDevelop your morals up to the grade of your egoism\\nAnd you will never dispute this, nor cease wondering at history.\\nSome men deemed human nature fit for democracy\\nSome others will deem it fitted for something much better\\nIn spite of you, logic forces itself, as with Luther.\\nNor will the most narrow and rigid of democrats regret it\\nWhen the general good shall supplant giant paupers and fortunes.\\nCasimir-Perier favors income-tax he is opulent.\\nCardinal Hfred once preached that it is not his duty\\nTo alleviate the misery whereto he does not contribute.\\nThe Cardinal s coupons are three hundred guineas per diem.\\nAnd yet there are fountains of fun in my Cardinal Cachecaisse.\\nNature made him for greatness, but steadily fate seems to thwart her.\\nWe laughed at high speed without cess seventy miles of a journey.\\nNo man wholly bad can laugh on in one stream for that distance.\\nA wee man once struggled with diplomacy as he understood it\\nCachecaisse might have smashed his contention in one of his fun-bursts.\\nBut he took himself seriously, thus offering a butt to the jokesmiths,\\nAnd let slide the chance for destroying jingo with ridicule.\\n258.\\nThe philosopher is a person propounding first principles,\\nOr expounding them, or discussing or who suffers with fortitude.\\nThat is, as reward for expoundings he takes other poundings.\\nAnd bears it as well as he must, and then calls it fortitude.\\nOthers, by the way, not philosophers, have taken much pounding.\\nThe philosophizer diflfers from him in some aspects.\\nHe is the crank who propounds, or expounds, or discusses\\nThe notions and tenets that float in the place of ideas.\\nMy Lothair shines as both as the former, highly instructive\\nAs the latter, forgive me the levity, highly amusive.\\nBut philosophy of any degree is mere substitute\\nFor the very activities which would render it needless.\\n242", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "259-\\nBy income-tax graded discourage the grasp on liigh millions.\\nI am dealing with science now, not your avarice-fury,\\nBut you have the free right, of course, to pulverize my argument,\\nBut not to deny nor ignore in blind passion of egoism.\\nI accept the pulverizing now, but your grandson will reintegrate it.\\nOne tax for all is the irony of equality.\\nNo one man has the right to a revenue fit for a nation\\nUnless a grand jury of poor comic writers be willing.\\nWhatever makes the poor richer, or the rich poorer,\\nIs not of democratic but strictly of populist practice,\\nPopulist being euphemistic for socialist practice.\\nOr that of the commune the naming does not concern me.\\nDemocracy in its way is as rigorous as absolutism\\nMerely look at the purse and both pull the strings in convulsions.\\nThe poor brother shoulders the state while the rich one applauds him.\\nIf I have six hundred a year and Cornelius six millions\\nAnd the customs-tax average each of us fifty per centum,\\nIs that justice, equality, equity, even true freedom?\\nWhy not ten per cent, income-tax and save forty per centum\\nBy abolishing the political drones of the customs\\nAnd freeing the arms of each race for the common advantage?\\nThis is an uppermost question and presses for answer.\\nNot ten per cent, on all incomes, you know on the biggest\\nThen graduate downward the kicks will be high in proportion.\\nWhen rich newspapers call themselves off from this theme, and the poor ones\\nCease from booming the wealth which for them lacks the boomerang action.\\nWe shall touch universal peace and sound finance and freedom.\\nTis the secular proof of your piety makes the strong convert.\\nAre you practicing the self-sacrifice you inculcate\\nAny parson may orate, but does he make money from sugar?\\nHe who taketh no personal chances in commerce for living\\nMay live well from his coupons is it not. Caput Inflatum,\\niB *ated Hierophant and Fanciful Fenius of Finance\\n243", "height": "2732", "width": "2014", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "26o.\\nWe are all superior to fortune, you know, till we get it.\\nThe man of no gold becomes blatant in favor of silver\\nBut let him own something and gold is his shining ideal,\\nDoubling itself by mere sensitiveness to accretion\\nSo they say who are ardent that silver go through the same process.\\nNo man refuses gold value in lieu of his silver.\\nIs a people more rich by more money of cheaper material\\nThan it is by its food at low price and in permanent plenty\\nIf so be it, why do you seek to make silver the dearer?\\nWhy was I not born the Comus of many per centum\\nBritain will not be boycotted out of gold station.\\nWhen both sides have been heard the result is rough on the egotist.\\nNo matter what metal might be in the calf of his worship.\\nYour millionaire men do not pay for the millionaire nation\\nThey give the repute, leaving poor men to pay to sustain it.\\nThus vast wealth, as objective prize or as object of envy.\\nDemoralizes the people condemned to behold it,\\nFor envy not only augments, but grows into covetousness\\nSince syndicate doctrine supplanted the doctrine of forepops.\\nI am not setting class against class, but revamping old sawstock.\\nPopular values belong in the pocket and not in the Treasury.\\nAltruism and economics unite about income.\\nI am merely recalling a genius for finance like Hamilton,\\nAnd pray that a new one may smite the rock of your resource.\\nTouch the corpse of the public credit and bring it upstanding.\\nYou will live to see this idea hailed as a blessing\\nIf you be very young and push it with vigor uncommon.\\n261.\\nThere will be no more poets the corporate bodies absorb them.\\nDividends provide everything now that the bard could imagine,\\nAnd instead of vain sighs for grand figures we buy them with guineas.\\nFrom airy nothings materialized down to gold pieces,\\n244", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "Tennyson was dairyman as well as peer and a poet,\\nAnd Shakespeare himself would be chairman of some big stock company,\\nWith curt comment on any one dreaming of Lear or Ophelia,\\nMeditation fancy-free meditating on money\\nFancy-free to be tickled, you know, with the hope of big profits\\nFor the figures of comedy free, not the bore of conclusions.\\nlYea, directors the poets are now, with ideals in syndicate.\\n262.\\nIf great in one line, permit not the world to be fooled on you\\nFor half a dozen brands of the mind of high order.\\nUecduse you catch fish, do not set yourself up as disciple\\nOne sort of success is not sure to forerun you another.\\nSo be prompt with the discipline that denotes true disciple\\nIf piety be attached to your luck while a-fishing,\\nAnd assure the misled of your fitness only for angling.\\n263.\\nWe admit that the churches and politics are deficient\\nIn power to compel the right living holy and worldly.\\nThis we privately know and deplore as we reason by conscience.\\nBut in synods and senates we solemnly deem them effective\\nFor purposes public against our convictions in private.\\nAnd in their defence slay our kindred as doctrinal duty.\\nWhile inwardly aware of the criminal humbug;\\nWhile the late Mr. Grievely s ex-friend defends it with eloquence.\\nNo other known thing is equally vast in hypocrisy,\\nMr. Grievely s ex-friend being blamable only with millions.\\nI recall nothing else of activity quite so atrocious.\\nMay the next revolution be led by our Heavenly Father\\nHe is a natural leader debating societies\\nArrayed and equipt as an army do not elect him.\\nI am weary of error in arms in the name of that Father,\\nOf mistakes in the churches and politics ever-recurring,\\nAnd I fail to find permanent hope in a different captain.\\n245", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "264.\\nAre the gods the things that men make them Let lis concede it.\\nWhat does it prove That a god is a truth even to Plato,\\nAnd that Plato, a man, is not enough god for the infidel.\\nA god, though a figment, responds to a yearning in nature.\\nFilling a space that is abstract because it is abstract.\\nWherein Plato is useless because even Plato is concrete.\\nAnd a deity must dwell in a kingdom intangible.\\nImagination cannot be torn from our order,\\nAnd he who can make not a god will take that of another,\\nHaving fancy enough to adopt though he cannot create one.\\nNot disease is imagination, nor something superfluous.\\nBut an insight formative by faith of the hope that is in us.\\nSo that man as a maker of gods is at last what gods make him,\\nW hether they make him a Plato or leave him with Pluto\\nOr permit his election to govern the poor as a Plutus\\nFor in these things there is no mystery unless you allow it.\\n265.\\nSeize the sense when there is any skip the rhetorical soughing.\\nThe purpose of rhetoric is to make you do my duty.\\nI speak well and wax in renown, while my brother the soldier\\nGoes to help fill a nameless trench with a nameless thousand\\nAs a military result of my wonderful speeches.\\nEnvy is only the maw-worm of motives uplifting.\\nBut he seems to hold on to his bite with judicious tenacity.\\nWhere all men are levelled the law of the fittest survival\\nProduces the Spartan of Christians whose thesis of Olivet\\nOpes the forum of faith to the doctrinaires of the spoiler.\\nThe Spartans were ruled from Olympus, and not from Walhalla\\nOur Thor would have hammered their heads till the breed was extinguished\\nInstead of setting them up as a classic example,\\nThese foragers ashamed even of nothing, so far as I know them.\\nBut conscience is never an active force with the pagan\\n246", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "Tis an abstraction ornamental in literature,\\nBut as operative force it is not to be called on.\\nTo speak in low form your highest self-interest is Christian.\\nI do not refer to the prophet so much as the prophecy\\nFor tis in the secular aspect, not that of the prophet,\\nThat Christ looms the greatest of men, quite apart from the Saviour\\nAs the product in man of his prophecy I adore him.\\n266.\\nWhat thought burns worse than that Crucifixion was necessary,\\nThat is, if it was not atrociously unnecessary?\\nRebellion against it may yet gain a force governmental\\nFor a late dawn seems expanding in human intelligence,\\nOne that shows sacrifice up insuiifiiciently justified\\nOr if still it be truly required, it must pass from necessity\\nMany once necessary things have passed out of necessity.\\nAnd sacrifice as a principle ought to pass with them.\\nTo immolate one that another may thrive, or a million,\\n.Is a proposition for universal rejection.\\nNor should any degree of sacrifice be accepted.\\nOne eased by the pain of another is self-contradiction\\nIn genuine morals, and should be in practical ethics.\\nHow can I enjoy a release whereby you become burdened?\\nMy grief should be rather increased by the size of your burden.\\nThrow off the theory that sacrifice is legitimate\\nAs a principle, though circumstance call on you for it\\nBy reasons of cowardice, selfishness, errors and precedent.\\nNo self-contradiction here be large enough for the subject.\\nI am altruist while altruism shall be necessary.\\nBut insist on eliminating sacrifice from necessity.\\nImm.olation, or anything like it, should never be called for\\n267.\\nNow, infidel Fenius of Finance, fiinder my Comedy!\\nTake everything seriously since I put you in ridicule.\\n247", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "A satire on patriotism ought to include all the patriots\\nIn a mass, but not in detail, for no book could contain them,\\nNo, nor all the print in the nation suffice for their muster-roll.\\nThe chief is he whom his country lifts into riches\\nBy legislation if not, why is he so lifted\\nPut on your best parvenu airs and rave in a reverie\\nBrilliant with showers of coupons falling due daily\\nAnd not neglecting to arch out a rainbow while. falling\\nAnd never forgetting to fall in materialized vision,\\nThat wealth is the portion of those who are lucky in industry.\\nNot the share of the citizens faithful to industry simple\\nThat learning and age are wasted as not teaching cumulus,\\nAnd that he who may not be a luckster is lucky as emmet.\\nRich men teach from wealth because riches include every learning,\\nWhether the richards began as Oxonians or cabmen.\\nYou must be wealthy to learn how opulence brings knowledge\\n268\\nWhy should civil war result in a new crop of ethics\\nCivil war that trains later a few sudden fortunes gigantic\\nTrains also a period exceptional, not twice expected,\\nA terrible preach of wealth for the sake of wealth only\\nThe sordid formula of the prophet of millions\\nWho teaches the law of contentment to those who have nothing\\nDestructive of popular morals an epoch to run from.\\nSince it reeks with avarice, jingo, envy and patriotism.\\nThe feudalist victim grown rich by the grace of new chances\\nSurpasses in feudalism those who made him an exile.\\nThe peasant is thus no more sanctified than the baron\\nWhen in fresh fields the baronial conditions invite him.\\nThe opportunist is god in his opportunity,\\nWhether he come from mud-cabin or castle imperial.\\nHis syndicate first makes the money, and then makes the morals.\\nThis canto, though overladen with facts, will weigh nothing.\\n248", "height": "2806", "width": "2001", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "269.\\nIf you federate, Britons, be warned from the permanent menace\\nKrom which even the hottest of parties are strenuous in warning-,\\nThe jeehaw between local centres and centralization,\\nPresuming the rule of the fitless and jealousy rampant.\\nFederate on sense though you plan it for three generations.\\nTo be quick is to doubt importance unless in mobilization.\\nTwenty years of resolute government said the Marquis\\nForty years of Tammany ought to confirm the conviction.\\nDespotism produces martyrs because it requires them.\\nLiberty is too glad and monotonous to need heroes\\nOr great men of any breed so flat and so happy\\nThat a clown may run an electorate and govern a city.\\nIf we be not mere planters of hostage we must federate the forces\\nFor instant convergence when menace appears any menace.\\nOur Empire is something to cherish or something to laugh at.\\nAll parts must defend any one, or go off in their own parts.\\nIf a third of all human beings be subjects of Britain,\\nWe should furnish a third of the forces required to defend them\\nBoth ashore and afloat for we live by either power or favor.\\nNever accept proposition to limit our armament\\nUnless limitations of others be equally genuine\\nAll nations but one scheme to lessen our naval efificiency.\\nAnd our underestimate, historic and chronic.\\nOf the enemy, fairly shone like the sun in South Africa.\\nSome day it will cost us an empire from sunrise to sunset.\\n270\\nLand and water were trackless when Britain began to make turnpikes.\\nShe was the first to pike the seas is still first in that function,\\nAnd alone in maintaining those pikes without toll for all flagdom.\\nYet this honor, high, radiant, impartial, unique, invites envy\\nFrom some who eat of its profits though they could not sustain it\\nWho elsewhere accept its advantage while working against it,\\n249", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "The asp of covetonsness at the bosom of hospitahty.\\nIf none will aid in this duty, will some one guarantee us\\nThat at least we be not assailed for upholding the general liberty\\nIf so, it will grow tmtil none shall desire to assault it\\nSo distributive of its riches to every participant\\nThat the ass who would kick it again would kick his own cornbin.\\n271.\\nCompromise is the rodent of all constitutions\\nAnd certain to gnaw in the epoch of sectional hunger.\\nA party dwells with us both intent on promoting that appetite,\\nThe instinct thereto being founded in ethnics, and chronic,\\nAnd to be neutralized only by letting them know that you know them,\\nAnd that you will boycott their game whenever played in your politics.\\nBut you who have dotted the oceans with landfalls of friendship,\\nBriton, sailor yourself bearing amity for all sailors.\\nWhile you maintain the high peerage of all equal freemen\\nA.nother is vigilant to take you at disadvantage,\\nThough his quondam friend has adopted your role among peoples\\nOne who follows you round the globe and shares in your grainbins,\\nNot a builder himself, but unproud and a fortunate tenant,\\nHaving the law on the tenant s side, not on the landlord s\\nEager himself for the task for which he denounces the Briton\\nFault-finding, eating, grasping, drinking, dwelling and scheming;\\nWilling to outwit the gods had he wit enough to attract them\\nFrom fathers whose love of misrule, as they tell, provoked centuries of hun\\nger,\\nFurnishing foreign towns with policemen five to the ton-weight,\\nThe best-fed looking men on the globe by the law of the average,\\nThese sons of twenty generations of those who ate nothing\\nStreet preachers of agitation hopeless of all things save penny-pay\\nCorner-Hercules each, arrester of centaurs of tramcar.\\nBut too splendidly uniformed for service more grievous\\nNo more than the Hebrew disposed to subdue the waste-places\\nBy dint of axe and fire and privation and peril\\n250", "height": "2796", "width": "1996", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "One willing to win at seven-up what your courage shall conquer,\\nBut not, as the Hebrew is, faithful to free state and conscience\\nSuch in part is he of long sweat in deranging the amenities\\nOf the nations which beat him at last by exploiting his purpose.\\nIs starvation really better than beef for policemen.\\nOr as ancestral condition for making them heavy\\n271^\\nIn a work designed to stimulate tnought, not exhaust it,\\nAnd to put on a topic new phases instead of dessicating it,\\nWhatever of comedy, satire, or sarcasm or irony\\nBe employed, should be free of bitterness and dogmatics.\\nThereby suscitating interest, attention, analysis.\\nAnd leading the reader up to a larger acquaintance\\nAnd clearer opinion or judgment concerning such topic\\nHis own opinion or judgment, not another forced on him\\nOne like that of Mr. Archbold on uses of riches,\\nBut not by the usage of rich men or, as I called it.\\nThe Advantages of Blunt, at the dinner of Trowbridge.\\nThis is not the way of the editor, he being a partisan,\\nAnd often for interest, in spite of his own elightenment\\nIn which, of course, he is merely a common politician,\\nWhatever his abstract acquirements, or his merits in concrete.\\nWhen young I was thrice dismissed for simple wjde-mindedness,\\nAnd once, for an innocent joke on the comic editor\\nWho was blown ofif on one of his jokes till he grew incoherent.\\nAnd excited a laughter that turned his own fun into anger.\\nThe funnyman s chair was not ample enough for my sitting.\\nBut of all the convictions of youth which age slowly mummifies,\\nMine the least mummified is the need of large-mindedness\\nAnd of not offending receptiveness by ironies,\\nSince intellectual receptiveness may grow to aggressiveaess\\nIn high spirits aroused by more varied infusion of subject\\nAnd these the world needs, in the genuine, not in the charlatan.\\n251", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "272.\\nImperfect as liberty is, it is still worth the saving,\\nBecause, if lost, we should all be slaves irretrievably,\\nOr begin the struggle anew as with Johnny Plantagcnet.\\nWe have earned something worthy, and gambled on some things worth\\nnothing.\\nLet us keep on earning, eliminating, and avoidmg\\nLoss, and the makeshifts that mar systems suddenly founded.\\nNow, having decided it worthy, how shall we save it?\\nSimply by lasting alliance of all who speak English\\nAround the globe either that or some grand misalliance\\nConserving a status quo among races degenerate\\nTill liberty shall retire in disgust from all peoples\\nAnd military autocracy shackle ex-freemen,\\nOr monetary autocracy buy up both systems.\\n273-\\ni see a money-autocracy menacing freedom.\\nExcept that of syndicate action by tariff and excise,\\nIn itself a free autocrat merit, in midst of a people\\nOf continental pretensions to virtues and riches.\\nThis menace will be explained away every peof le\\nHas weaknesses one is so great for orations that freedom\\nV/ill be lost in some democrat s speech explaining its permanence.\\nIn this I speak less for myself than the late Mr. Gresham.\\n274.\\nIf patriotism be a secular faith in alliance\\nWith that which seats you with God after death, why not fill it\\nWith the sweetness and light of the Sunday-school and Saint Matthew,\\nAnd quit making the temple a school of political hatred\\nCan you serve God on Sundays and butcher your brothers all weekdays\\nAnd recombine with self-respect the next Sabbath\\n252", "height": "2791", "width": "2021", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "If you can, where are Moses and Jesus as dominant prophets?\\nIs the moral law as to policy a quantity minus\\nMr. Lincoln said it seemed strange that the God of the Federals\\nAnd Confederates should be the same, yet so dii^erently prayed to.\\nThe day of religious war is gone, says the optimist.\\nPatriotic war is religious war in a measure\\nThe same argument sustains the one as the other\\nWhen you see the fact as it is and not as a casuist.\\nCan you placate the god of destruction while praying the Saviour\\n274i\\nAfter you have grown old, the generation succeeding\\nTakes the country out of your hands, substituting new patriotism\\nWhich seems treason to you as compared with that of your tvv cnties.\\nYet the waterlogged patria still floats, always floundering, not foundering\\nWhich shows patriotism up a vagary strictly, a fashion\\nA fad, a generation s whim, not a sublimate passion\\nSomething with nothing that made Cincinnatus illustrious.\\nExcept the old-timers, still Bhoys of the Bowery at ninety,\\nNone of the elder men wished to assault Spain in Cuba,\\nBut young men, bohemians, and gents of the cross-roads and corners.\\n275-\\nThe average is not of the highest things nor the lowest\\nBut of the even medium, inclusive, exclusive\\nOf what it can reach and it cannot and contemptuous\\nAnd brutal sometimes but proclaiming itself as the average.\\nNo apology to things higher or finer they are recognized,\\nBut if they decline to assimilate they are trampled.\\nLet us reckon with this as a law and quit quarrelling with it.\\nThe democrat says that his law is the right of the average\\nAnd its force in his fixt institutions but let him be careful\\nThat an oligarchic minority shall not grasp both of them\\n253", "height": "2742", "width": "1949", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "And sell out to a syndicate, and then do it over again\\nIf principles must live, safeguards have correlative value.\\n276.\\nLet us quit the study of Dardan for that of Manhattan,\\nWhere the dew-steps and snow-tracks of pioneer Saxon are hunted\\nBy sunlight and searchlight by one never tired of proclaiming\\nHis superiority, yet who never founded a colony\\nA wageman only, this party, on Saxon-rigked capital,\\nYet a puissant tongue-tripper in colony or ex-colony.\\nPolitics are easy there, and this party tripped into it\\nBy opening a mine of sympathy and working it so incessantly\\nThat its shareholders lost the sense of international comity\\nAnd duty, and made a religion of interference.\\nFor this mine-man is nothing if not a victim of conscience\\nKis own, to be sure, which prohibits respect for another s.\\nBut even insouciant Manhattan at length looks into him\\nWho sailed thither by millions to crowd out the sons of the builders\\nOf the Saxon madhouse of freedom, and make a hotel of it\\nFor receiving as guests of himself the manorial inheritors.\\nStrange that he never led in the two kinds of freedom.\\nWhy has he always followed and tried to lay hold of them\\nHe has captured Tammany, an institution of charity,\\nWhich, in the food and drink sense, supports him by thousands.\\nThis he calls proof of his genius so it is proof it is\\nOf the old tribal power to live at the cost of one s neighbors.\\nBut the world draws both fun and a moral from this situation.\\n2764.\\nLike a later and older John of Gaunt, I see lerna\\nKicking harder than ever against the goads, yet dependent\\nForever, and more than ever, on Anglia, being sandwiched\\nBetween sections of British Empire to westward and eastward\\nTill circumference is lost in circumference, and emotional orators\\n254", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "And exiles of all degrees are like alien fish stranded\\nOn foreign shores they may fertilize but not sweeten.\\nAnd all this by reason of marvelous moral alliance\\nWhich grew from a Spanish war, and for open doors everywhere.\\nThis canto is of West Point not the Point, but the principle,\\nAnd was written when Cuba was Spanish, with war far off and latent,\\nAnd before committees set the empires to criticise democracy.\\nThere should exist a continuous basis of leadership.\\nChicago said no, and to pay for it hanged a few anarchists.\\nThose who do not believe in it now will yet see its necessity.\\nIf this prophecy should fail it is perfectly harmless.\\nTo hear the other man s side is part of My Comedy,\\nAs universal dividends are of My Syndicate.\\nThe volunteer for a war is often a citizen\\nBroken in prospects a bummer, in fact not always, but often\\nAnd some one is urgently needed with courage to say this\\nBecause the military defence of an empire\\nCalls for much better men than those willing to forage in others.\\nNo ofificer not a gentleman, is a grand motto.\\nGiving courage and comfort to men who enlist where it governs.\\nVolunteer system has proved that it does not insure this.\\nDo not rely on the chaos of non-preparation\\nBecause you outnumber by four to one some other fellows.\\nSome day the proportion may be on the side of those others.\\nAnd then you may cut out some work that may do you some credit\\nBut to do this successfully you depend on West Pointers.\\nThis canto is not addressed alone to Americans.\\nWest Point principle is weaker with them than with Britons,\\nBut not strong enough with either look at some others.\\nThe English are very good men, have been always good fighters,\\nGood mercenaries, as they were with Hawkwood and Chandos,\\nBut what chance have they now, gainst an army hke that of the Germans*\\nFaith in hordes insures not the man of manifest destiny.\\n255", "height": "2752", "width": "2060", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "The next Wellington may again be the son of a noble.\\nThe plebeian is equally gifted, but has no monopoly.\\nNo preach in this pamphlet merely suggestion and question.\\nI, as aristo. have no right to injure your sensitiveness\\nEqually A\\\\Tong would you be to crowd your pleb self on my notice\\nOr if this otiend. make me pleb. and you be aristo.\\nWTiy inflict on the world intermittent warwhoop of envy\\nProletariat oblige de meme que noblesse, si on y pense bien.\\nLa fiene personelle depasse autre orgueil pensez encore-la\\nNature did not limit the wise or the fools to one order.\\nBut I pray you. corral the able and brave in one order,\\nMen as ready to die as to win in ihe race to be able\\nIn democracy or socialism even as in monarchy,\\nAs the crew that sank the Merrimac proved at Santiago.\\nChange not the name of the ring let it still be aristo.\\nMere prejudice gainst a word shall not scare a noble derivative\\n.WTiich has fought its way up with demos, keeping abreast of it.\\nBut Colonel Jack Battleship does not belong in this order,\\nAnd will cost you more than ten others unless you suppress him.\\n279.\\nWhat is a noble The leader posed highest by nature.\\nAs his ancestor was when the noble Avas not the more needed\\nAristocrat, autocrat, democrat ruler, not liar.\\nHis forepops aided or bearded the king as they listed.\\nEach first among equals where nothing but chance made one greater.\\nThe only man in the battle who dared not be timid.\\nThe only man in a shipwTeck who dared not survive it.\\nLike Tryon, afraid of nothing except to be frightened.\\nIf an order maintain what is worthy, rejecting the other.\\nAdding the moral force of continuity- to progress and purpose.\\nAnd be recognized by the state as a part of its \\\\-alue,", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "Such order is noble and useful, despite the objections\\nOf envy, and the sneers of those from its circles excluded.\\nIndeed, if the systems ostentatious of plainness\\nCould secure with their peoples its practice from choice, as they do not\\nWhen choice is presented, my faith in them would be fortified.\\nAnd if the ignoble went not with the fling- at the noble.\\nThis is serious writing for one without serious pretension.\\nBut the barnacle of the bogus adheres to both systems,\\nThus presenting a case of excrescence thriving on merit.\\nA Court has some points which I hope Britain never will sacrifice.\\nI insist on this hope from prolonged obsen-ation all-sided.\\nI am not approving the sons of proud flesh, nor the swellmob.\\nPatrician may build where he can, and so may plebeian.\\nBut neither shall injure the structure, as such, of the other.\\nNone is better for not being the best, and no order decrees this\\nTo its members each does its best for the best, and that ends it.\\nImpartiality cuts little figure in studying this topic\\nThat is why I, democratic from Plato, risk seeming snobbish.\\n280.\\nNot principles change, although eras may modify living.\\nLet his vices alone yours v.ere bigger if you could afford them.\\nLaden with mesquinite. coarse, sordid, unblooded.\\nThe temptations of fortune are sometimes ven*- unfortunate.\\nYour poverty, had you been wise, should have hidden your meanness.\\nBad enough to be mean, the effect is doubled by poverty.\\nResistance costs nothing to him without means for a riot.\\nThe prophet is not without honor save in his country\\nAnd ancestral chateau and his party why do these slight him\\nBecause the opposition has more who are better.\\nThe rich are not mean when they seem so they are but ex-centric.\\nLift inferiors up to superiors and so make us equals.\\nBut do not knock Washington doA^-n to the Tammany level,\\nNeither set him up sponsor for tenets unknown to his epoch\\nIndeed, could he have foreseen the apocalypse of Lexow,", "height": "2752", "width": "2060", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "Or of Alazet, I guess he might not have cast his first uniform.\\nThings are as they work, not as partisan revehy bhifTs them.\\nI (iisHke without blaming bhit^ it provokes me to buffing.\\nI therefore bufif him who bhif^ed on suspending the steerage\\nFor a term because of unfitness of immigration.\\nIn such case is the patriot at the open door or the other door?\\nGood citizens if they enter unfit if they do not.\\nThe same men but the door, not the men. is what it depends on.\\nHeave anthropology over the side of the vessel\\nAnd whoop up the door as it stands and shut out burning questions.\\nYour end being to keep the door open for you to the senate.\\nA senator may be little or great, or be accident,\\nWhether Webster or he who would shut up the door of third cabin.\\nBut, in senate or out, a magnanimous man and benignant\\nIs an open-door fellow while making the weather to suit it.\\nThe whole world may give up the open-door cult, but I never!\\n:28i.\\nIf you wish to do wrong, become crank and charge it to conscience.\\nIf you find your delight in dominion of some of the passions,\\nSay that something or somebody stands in your v\u00c2\u00bb-ay of expansion.\\nIf the wrong shall be monstrous the crank will become an apostle\\nWhen by any species of juggle he get it accepted.\\nA\\\\ e must keep due proportion between the disciple and topic.\\nInvestigate nothing, but simply be slave of your notion.\\nThe more slave the more sure you are to be wholly conscientious.\\nI\\\\Iarcus Brutus. Wilkes Booth and Guiteau were all drunken with con-\\nscience.\\nThe Leonidas band was exterminated on duty.\\nTimolcon too was a tough for the \\\\o\\\\e of the masses.\\nPasting fratricide to his conscience give me Timophanes.\\nDivorce has a place in the conscience that governs expansion\\nOf hearts that can love more than one more than one at a time, too.\\nIf punished, you are a martyr instead of a criminal.\\nPunition is only an item of compensation\\n258", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "It comes, when you need it, as simple reward of demerit.\\nHow easily age passes age in the mental ascension\\nFrom Moses to that of the rule for evading commandments.\\n282.\\nAll is relative Yes. but everything has its basis\\nIn fact and relation is more or less of an mference\\nIt depends on the thing and the mind sometimes on both mingled.\\nHades is hard, though some dwellers there contradict Dante.\\nMy spiritualist hunted in vain for the Count Ugolmo.\\nAnd Francesca da Rimini vowed him she was not unhappy.\\nIn self-defence they feel bound to find points in its favor,\\nThough I think Ugolino simply refused to be interviewed,\\nIt being sweeter to gnaw his foe s head than to answer a boojum.\\nNo offence to the principle of psychical research intended.\\nThe incommunicable flash of the psychical radiance.\\nRare, and to few vouchsafed, carries presage of wisdom\\nRicher than syndicate treasures, and not to be doubted\\nBecause intangible yet to the lone and unwilling\\nA presage luminous of atonement wherein the believers\\nFind the burden lightened, though not yet be the day of deliverance.\\nHowever, another psychical influence detained me.\\nBut we need not go to the devil to find such obliquity\\nSome who live in the Tammany bailiwick really defend it.\\nThere it is that necessity is the Muse of Invention,\\nTo me nothing finer in oratory nor letters\\nThan a stump speech, every sentence with epigram pointed.\\nNo matter about the matter, if epigrammatic.\\nEven falsehood is true in the politics of the partisan\\nIf by it he carry his vote we must govern by party.\\nFor pure fun I prefer the stump speeches that lie about Britain\\nMade by emigrants voluntary who call themselves exiles,\\nAnd call at my basement door for the pence of my servants.\\nThey like not the lion but whoop up the tiger, I notice.\\n259", "height": "2752", "width": "2060", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "Cervantes he was who laughed chivalry out of existence.\\nNear three centuries later a Don Keyhotay of nations\\nKnocks the land of Cervantes out of colonial possessions\\nComes from Spanish-discovered territory to do it.\\nAfter this there can be nothing- unexpected in irony.\\nMy hardest blows have less punch than the same of Cervantes,\\nThough this age would call itself larger and freer and stronger\\nBetter able to take as to give; this great prize fighter s epoch\\nWherein scarce a man is so honest as poor Don Ouijote,\\nfVnd who, by a pint to a barrel, produces more laughter\\nThe Don of three hundred years to-day has more fun in him\\nThan all clowns by profession and others grouped as his rivals,\\nExceptes les exiles de ressort qui se moquent de Manhattan.\\nChurch and chivalry were as strong in the age of Lepanto\\nAs patriotism and lust of gain in the age of protection\\nAnd free trade with our superstitions not more respectable.\\nI desire to bestow on them some of the shot of Lepanto\\nWhere Don Juan de Austria grew famous and staid so till Dewey\\nBeat a flagship bearing his name without lessening his glory.\\nYou will hear mine again o er the gulf as they shiver new timbers.\\n284.\\nForget not the thanks due the German bespeaker of Britain,\\nOf European renown in the love of the peoples\\nThe genius and steel Schiller gave you have not lost their tempers.\\nYe who smashed the Armada fresh from smashing giaour at Lepanto,\\nThough you sometimes hesitate fatally to assert them.\\nYour slow firmness and strength invite imposition be quicker\\nIf I had not observed and studied this out I were silent.\\nAre you hanging together in fractions or strong as a unit\\nDo not wait, ere you speak, till your foe has attained his ambition.\\nThat is the point where he laughs and says fight is not in you.\\nAs William the Sudden remarked in his raid on the Transvaal.\\n2G0", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "\\\\No Siam, no Fashoda the latter was merely a sequence.\\nSo slow yon are, what you seek to prevent is accomplished,\\nAnd you are put off with an explanation ironic.\\nHis purpose became a fait accompli unexpected,\\nMonsieur smiles and tail of old leo once more has been trifled with.\\nWhat do you think about Captain Mahan on Lord Nelson\\nGod grant I be wrong, but dawdling and drifting seem dangerous.\\nYou can mobilize the Fleet in a jifify, Britannia\\nBut the Army requires several jif^es, as also the Foreign Office,\\nIn a nation slow enough to be solemnly comic,\\nBuilding ships and preaching to save the expense of an army.\\nWhat cares he who takes what he likes for the British dignity\\nMoral tone and too-lateness make the paradise and the victim\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Of rhetoricians in competition with statesmen.\\nWill you send enough men in first instance, next time, to a Transvaal?\\nDo you represent fittest survival by outliving envy\\nYou will be suddenly ordered away from Gibraltar\\nSome day, and from Egypt and A lalta, by new combination.\\nWill you then strike or quit To recover respect, stop the lectures.\\nGive Socotra to the States for free seas and free Suez,\\nFor they seem to do more with a wink than you do with a cruiser.\\nTheir alliance will require some initiative as well as some battleships,\\nAnd you will stay great and respected in ratio to courage.\\nOrganization onl}- we lack to make us invincible.\\nAnd so acknowledged by every bluffer and bully.\\nNever resurrect peace-at-any-price doctrine or Premier\\n285.\\nA wooden horse is a ship of the land full of soldiers\\nIntended to sail by his legs where the foe least expects him,\\nOr to be trundled on wheels for the merrier deceit of the garrison.\\nAnd so may the father of trades send a British Epeiis\\nWith numerous aids to construct wooden horses for soldiers.\\nThe foe v/ould think they were empty and lose himself laughing\\nAt a nineteenth-century experiment torn from the Iliad.\\n261", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "However, his laughter would change to a puritaji seriousness\\nWlien he found our clown-guiiboat ashore a real warful equipment;\\nThat the old Greek freak of the enterprise gave it the dang;er\\nP.ut the horse in this canto is not a device of Lord Wolseley\\nOr Roberts or Kitchener, but mine for symposian Ministry.\\nIt is much more honest, honorable and more military\\nThan tlie phantom scheme of defence whereby Gordon perished.\\nFashodd would have been a complete success with those schemers.\\n286.\\nYou may be a poet, a prosist, a scholar, a rhetor,\\n]May infuse fear or love, even as Jupiter Tonans or A mans\\nMay broaden your mind a few miles beyond the horizon\\nMen may trample each other to death to absorb your oration\\nYou may be more sorts of great mind if you care to select them.\\nYet the minus sign may express 3-our success as a statesman.\\nMere passion to do something- new does not make you highminded.\\nLofty brooding on self-deception makes not a patriot.\\nO give ear to a new old man. thou vast British Klectorate!\\nCassandra had one defect only no one would listen\\nEven to the prophet-maiden and princess royal of Ilion\\nWho in foregrasp carried, and died with, a stirpes denying;\\nAnd Schiller had died before aterloo or Trafalgar,\\nThough well proven in both our genius and steel of his dictum.\\nBut eat, drink and be merry, my Britons, and stone your old wailer\\nNo short commons while foodships are missed by the enemies cruisers.\\nThe last one uncaptured may enter the dock just at midnight.\\nSo to-morrow we die. but let us be drunk for the sunrise\\n28S.\\nIt is a contretemps stubborn when patriot or other\\nImposes himself on mankind as a permanent fetich.\\n262", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "He forestalls by inflated renown a good part of the coming\\nAnd spreads himself over the space due some other fine fellow.\\nHis vaticination is short in length, height and expansion.\\nHe would steer a high course in the Argo Navis of knowledge.\\nBut not through all seas can he govern the wheel of Canoptrs,\\nAnd the year of his deed is the port where he finds his successor.\\nTo whom he ought to resign as to Jason the Greater,\\nThis star-sailor broke of the hope that he captained the future.\\nHe was brilliant and grand while he lived, but not up to the future.\\nAs you are not brilliant and grand for the future till called there.\\nIntellectual emancipation is what is first needed.\\nAnd the champion of wholly free mind is the only true prophet.\\nOf the mind free to sail from finality on to finality,\\nProvided such mind be big enough not to be wrecked by him.\\nSo that nations may still be unfortunate in good idols,\\nIdols good in and for themselves with a people mistaken.\\nJudicious self-control in the sculpture of metaphor\\nCuts a silent figure of speech loud for him who employs it.\\nIt is amusing to twitter concerning the obvious.\\nAnd I sometimes make fun of my premises and my logic.\\nSince Solomon lilyfied did not love fun as I love it.\\nI care not for form, but I must have the substance, and plenty\\nAnd states, as at present constructed, are full of the comic.\\n289.\\nPalabras fatidicas son las mismas en todo lenguaje,\\nOr the words of flame shine forever the same in all speeches.\\nAnd above age or sex, as we know by Tiresias and Manto.\\nFree from your rage he whose rage was expended on youthfields\\nLess clouded the horoscope cast by the seer at the starfields\\nLike the Tithonus of a gift from, a richer Aurora,\\nFrom a psychical Eos afar from the range of the sophist\\nNot with blood of the boy, but with ichor of ripeness and contact,\\n263", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "Partaking the virtue and lustre of what he approaches\\nFixt ever at home in the splendor recurrent of nightfall,\\nUnvvrenched from their zenith, unwrecked in the nadir of statecraft\\nEcstasy of a vision whitening itself into sunlight,\\nBrightening itself into sunrise of radius expanded\\nWhose beams shall more brilliantly burnish the belt of dominion\\nOf a v/orld-realm having always a moment of sunrise\\nWith duties and causes which seek the imperial meridian,\\n290.\\nPsychical foresight and insight sublime and illumine\\nPoet-prophet, him of deep love, and far scan, and high vision\\nBut woe unto him who cries woe to the sins of his epoch\\nThough for him all the tongues roll the syllables even as one tongue,\\nThough his intuition may penetrate every deception\\nAnd his honesty be the means of reclaiming his era.\\nEnvy beats admiration at last and he dies an old curio\\nA circumstance which I regard as discouraging deeply\\nThose sole heirs of the mind equipt for such duty and destiny.\\n291.\\nI am old as an heir of a Boadicea enlightened\\nAnd was young round a globe in the ancient Queen s era undreamt of;\\nA Britannic son of a priestess benignant of fortune,\\nOf a mother who lived and died happy, foretelling of greatness\\nAnd not of the woe and the fall of her housegods and country\\nOf a pantheon of homely virtues supplanting the temple\\nOf a faith unfelt and of errant gods and their kindred.\\nMy faith is as that of a woman with scene-grasp viatic,\\nHeir of part of the psychical radiance diffused by Cassandra,\\nTruly and vainly diffused over legions unwilling\\nMy conviction as that of Laocoon free from the serpents,\\nFree at the altar of those later builders and better than Trojan,\\nOf high-priest whose duty may be to rebuild a religion,\\n264", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "The Cardinal of Neptune in prayer with his heritors,\\nAdjuring them to hold fast to the trust of the heirloom,\\nLong fervor and glory of mission evoking their rapture,\\nThe Minister of the Seas reattesting the will of Poseidon,\\nForbidding Jason crews to seek golden fleece in our tweendecks.\\n292,\\nDo my States look on Irish grievances as a comedy\\nOf political agitators acting ihem out for a living?\\nMr. Blaine deemed them tragic, and of so transcendent importance\\nThat he naturalized a man expressly to care for them\\nAt least so the caricaturists averred I aver nothing.\\nMr. Blaine had to get there, but did not and Mr. McKinley\\nDid get there, and made St. Patrick s friend Choate an Ambassador.\\nCenturies of hatred and wrong take a queer form of protest.\\nMr. Joseph Harmonicum Choate twice suggested the question\\nWhy Irishmen always migrate to Englishmen s countries\\nAnd why Romanists ever seek homes in the Protestant centres,\\nThough non-papist and Briton reciprocate never the honor.\\nManhattan is crowded with Irishmen writing Americanism\\nSo intently that even Carl Schurz would scarce dare dispute them.\\nGreat man, foreign-born, too, and almost the best of Americans,\\nWhose seventieth birthday Manhattan made publicly notable.\\nWill some bubbling Celt of the inkbottle answer Harmonicum?\\nShure here is a chance to apply the shillelagh of logic\\nChoate and I might be crushed not by breaking our heads but our arguments.\\nWill ye ever have all ye want, or go back if ye have it?\\nFor to two ye cannot be true, whether democrats or monarchists\\nAnd still l\u00c2\u00bbss to three, if thereunto be added a pontifex.\\n293-\\nAll commerce expands by the fact of facilitation,\\nBut facilitation means not naval menace of equals.\\nYour earnings may tempt to be corsair your rival defeated,\\n265", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "But why not be ready to make him ill if he try it?\\nWorth his while to rob, worth yours to defend, as I see it.\\nThis applies to the States, as well as to Britain, in Asia.\\nShall the silver streak of our safety yet prove our destruction\\nThrough a lazy faith that the streak by itself will defend us\\nAnd frighten all foes from our thirty ungarrisoned outposts\\nRicher than continent nations, are we less manly with taxes\\nThis is written for any period that brings us a menace.\\nNinety-Eight taught Potomac Cabinent something of menace,\\nThough public pride has private cause for ignoring it.\\nLet our electorate awake to our enemies politics\\nLet it awaken as unit, not as system of parties.\\nAn opium dream is a Round Table each for four races\\nTill the Arthurs, the knights and the squires shall be sure of our union,\\n294.\\nIn the evolution of national life a great navy\\nFollows great commerce by sea, since it cannot precede it\\nUnless built expressly to take trade away from another.\\nThis would cost so much, no commercial profit could pay for it.\\nLeaving him from whom you took it too poor to buy anything\\nThis accords with economy taught in Poor Richard s Almanac\\nOther economy would accord with Richard s Poor Almanac,\\nPoor Dick s countrymen have grown rich, but bv earnmg, not by organizing;\\nA planetary raid on the commerce of nations.\\nThe purpose of oceans is not to make sections of empire,\\nNeither to separate continents nor segregate peoples.\\nBut rather for fish-food, and trade, and the high sport of yachting.\\nLet agitators turn cabmen, or do something honest.\\nFor the tendency of events is to throttle their policies\\nAnd we, unto whom the creative scope is occult yet,\\nShould seek to obey the behest, not derange its unfolding.\\n295.\\nWe have thousands of sailors in posse outside of Europe,\\nAnd allies, if we show German pluck but the contrast\\n266", "height": "2771", "width": "1995", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "Is greater than we admit we who once were so plucky.\\nIs it an instance of Exeter Hall against courage\\nWe tried a new friend who would laugh us away out of Malta\\nHe would do it with sweetness and light and contempt and diplomacy;\\nHe hit the Marquis a blow underhanded from China\\nAnd we should retire with dignity. There is nothing like dignity.\\nThough a Frenchman once told me tis merely vivacity s absence,\\nAnd thus fitting the English character to perfection.\\n296.\\nNo irony in any patriotism and religion\\nBut shall Moslem yet carry the Cross for political freedom,\\nOr the sons of the Crescent shame those of the Cross into courage?\\nIn the last Turkish war the Greek gave us little encouragement.\\nStrange query but some Christians are so intense in their selfishness\\nSo nationally narrow and tyrannous, that it may become necessary\\nTo beat them and the Crescent may furnish some of the numbers\\nTo redeem liberty whether for Cross or for Crescent.\\nSad possibility this but old men are farseeing,\\nHaving quit the youth-practice of horn-tossing problems to solve them.\\nOr will those gone insane with the surfeit of license recover?\\nS il y a qui veut rompre la paix, honi soit a celui.\\nBut Great Britain is not a worm, for the foot of ambition,\\nAs the world learned at Fashoda and Oman, and the Transvaal.\\nBut our solemnly comical placemen svmposian misled the world.\\nBreak Britain, impoverish the others whom will you trade with?\\nThe poorhouse is always the leanest and cheapest consumer.\\nWhether ou be the owner thereof or an inmate.\\nNot a serpent coiling to crush with a claim surreptitious\\nIs Britain nor can she be spared from the list of great nations.\\nAll the world is a larger market than any one part of it.\\nAnd in free competition falls to the one who should have it.\\nNo section can be permanently bolstered as market; you will learn this.\\nNor can you get rich by finding fault with the markets.\\nSilver-wall yourselves ofif and be happy but leave us our senses.\\n267", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "You remember, I trust, that this booklet is all for amusement.\\nTotum reductum ad absurdum is mine only motto;\\nTotum is there for solution and reconstitution.\\nThis is not irony think it out to a finish.\\nHalf a million more soldiers and never a sneer at Great Britain,\\nBut a general call for disarmament, France calling loudliest.\\nWe are willing to take if we must a fair beating from equal\\nThat is, we do cheerfully welcome impossible prospect.\\nBut we who have learned to make forts of the solar pavilions\\nNeed the soldiers aloft and alow, as we have on the ocean.\\nWe invite the tricks and bad temper of gueuse and of bully\\nBy going unarmed or half-armed there is only one remedy.\\nLet Great Britain arm till all Europe agree to disarmament.\\n2 )8.\\nOr is Britain the island of chance, become great by the ocean\\nWhile our latent superiors were short of an ocean to help them\\nDo they work past our flank while we try to outflank by debating?\\nOnce we lost by debate a vast empire shall we let slide another\\nOur arm.y is minimum to theirs shall they beat us on navy\\nI inquire for all time, not the days of the statesmen symposian,\\nWho yet again may talk themselves into election.\\nThis is not written of any administration.\\nAll parties are one to me for my purpose with nations,\\nWith any system, democratic, autocratic, social.\\nExcept that where the figures of speech mark the pathway of desolation\\nMy purpose being universal distribution of dividends\\nOn labor capitalized on terms equal with capital.\\nThis is the dream of my Twentieth Century Syndicate,\\nWhich, if not realized, will stay beautiful with that of Torquato\\nTasso and Thomson joined in two different visions,\\nEach having no fault for the concrete except too much beauty.\\n268", "height": "2811", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "299-\\nNo one can take the place in the world of Great Britain.\\nNone would know what to do with it after he got it\\nBy lack of equipment ethnic and experimental,\\nThat is, of experience. I am a patriot on ethnics.\\nThe States will come on in time, v/hen they get through disputing\\nAmong themselves their relation to planetary duty.\\nSome affect to debate in the States what blood there predominates.\\nLet such read the opening of Blaine to the Senate on Garfield\\nOf Blaine, the least sane of those inimical to our duties.\\nInstitutions and flags are for children of eight years or eighty.\\nFor ethnical quality always preserves what is good in them,\\nAnd no good ethnic quality ever surrenders to fetich.\\nAiround the planet the empire of trade on the trade winds\\nAnd on the weather gauge was built by the Briton,\\nAnd it will stay with his blood through all flagdom and oceans!\\n300.\\nThere went a fine burst of patriotism for two nations.\\nBut its realization depends on some sort of alliance\\nWhich shall not give manifest destiny to some other keeping.\\nScarce anything is more comic than manifest destiny,\\nThe elusive clown in the hippodrome of the nations,\\nBuflfo porter of open door, burlesque chartist of spheres of influence.\\nFinal moralist of staying within your dominion.\\nBut what is your dominion One you may share with all others.\\nOr one from which another may drive all the others\\nBecause no one will second a leader for common shareholding?\\nPerhaps manifest destiny means absence of moral courage,\\nOr jealousy of it, or a mind too small to perceive it,\\nSo th at what should be manifest jointly is severally wasted.\\n301.\\nAre our resources real or posed on conceit niixt with rhetoric\\nShall the poorest of nations excel all the rich ones in arming\\n269", "height": "2811", "width": "1990", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Till mere bankruptcy determine which is the greatest\\nOur sodden sense of natural superiority\\nPersuades not our foes, neither arms us by land nor by water.\\nExiles at Manhattan say we are chumps, great by favor,\\nKeeping touch of our empire by luck and forbearance of others,\\nBlind sons of the opportune who fell into fortune,\\nWho did not talk ourselves into fortune, as they did,\\nAnd that those who fall or work into fortune are chump-races\\nVoid of the two-edged tongue which cuts ransom from property.\\nWell, we would not succeed if we could on the terms of the exiles,\\nAnd they only succeed on their terms by local majority,\\nNot by examples which make nations dominant and envied\\nBut we make no silly pretension to undying succession.\\nWhere we cease to deserve the exiles begin, and will eat us\\nImperially v/hen we cease but that is yet distant.\\nThe menace of Ninety-Three may recur just for state-fun,\\n7\\\\nd Fashoda or Oman may be elsewhere repeated.\\nI am English from Egbert, but faith in my race is much twisted.\\nWhen told to get out of Siam we appealed unto Moses,\\nThough Moses had had no experience so far to the eastward\\nWe, imperial, with populations scarce second to China.\\nWas that done like Cassius, or Strongbow, or Marlboro or Chatham,\\nOr Pitt s friends, who held fast till Europe made Boney an outlaw\\nShall some hydrostatic paradox at the sunrise.\\nAs a water-wedge at Tenasserim, split us open\\nOur decks should suggest us pontoons to all parts oi the Empire.\\nn^is would influence the exiles to hiring more halls to defeat us.\\nTo contrive and control more deceit by vociferous minorities.\\nIf the taxpayers deem empire too dear on the present conditions,\\nLet them devise cheaper means of feeding three kingdoms.\\nKnowing that all we give up is perdu to our commerce.\\nAs well as the honor and pride we divide with our fellows.\\n302.\\nT ^orgot are De Grasse and Brueyes yet they set us sternchases\\nWhich, when ended, brought Rodney and Hood out, and Nelson immortal\\n270", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "But from France we have had a long series of models for sternchase,\\nAnd De Grasse and Brueyes may be vindicate yet by their strategy.\\nTherefore let us build cruisers for engines, not battlers for cannons.\\nCraft that can beat all they meet not at fighting but running,\\nIn accord with the fad not of seamen but lubbers and builders.\\nLet us supplant shot and shell by steam pressure colossal.\\nThus deciding ocean supremacy simply by racing\\nAnd winning it by being quickest to get out of danger,\\nDressing ship from bowsprit to mizzen for swiftness victorious,\\nFor our triumphant velocity in declining.\\nThus shall we add the De Grasse class to that of Lord Duncan.\\n303-\\nPermit not yourself to get old too early prematurity\\nComes not necessarily of dissipation, nor of study.\\nNor even of troubles prolonged, but of simple surrender\\nGoing under and not going through, as Clint Roudcbush calls it\\nAnd for this, forces outside yourself may despitefully use you.\\nIf at fifty you have not accumulated a million,\\nYour quondam and quasi friends will predict you the poorhouse.\\nThe dullness and insult of this prediction anticipate\\nThe sullen years, brighter and gentler with those either friendless\\nOr having active enemies only, who are superior\\nTo those who merely maunder as friends those whose weaknesses\\nAre inimical amid their affection. The idealist\\nWho lives with a nature not ours is the apostle of friendship.\\nThe realist says it belongs to chance, not to principle,\\nFor he knows the friends who crowded the friendship out of him.\\nThe conqueror has it while mind, sword and muscle all swing for him.\\nThe proper moment for dropping is the rule which skips the exceptions.\\nLes adieux de Fontainebleau, the chief then being not conqueror,\\nIs the most abject tableau in nature, though art filled it\\nWith affection but the subalterns were sordid hypocrites\\nTo a very gross caput, yet one to whom they owed everything.\\nI stood on the old stone blocks and thought it all out there\\n271", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "And in youth, as in mitldle age, I vtrifievi the two sides of it\\nFy being the friend, and by lacking him. till I grew happy\\nAnd old in outgrowing its theft of affection, and replacing\\nNapoleon betrayed and faithless with Don Quixote and Falstaff,\\nXot for friendship or treachery in either, but for simple good humor.\\nAs I later desertetl the senate and took to the sand-ring.\\nThe senator being the actor, the clown the true fellow of nature.\\nThus the higher we g^o the more sordid and lower the friend is.\\nSo long as heigflit looms fundamentally false in conception.\\n^Mcphisto invented tbie tenn to develop a w eakness\\nComposed of the hope of reward without service substantial.\\nHypocrisy, cowardice, false promise, absence of sacrifice.\\nThe exceptions I note prove the subtle grasp of his genius.\\nAnd include what the gods approve, and man excludes from friendship.\\n304.\\nManifest destiny makes friends not involving self-sacrifice.\\nOr invoh ing it so as to spare immolation more costly.\\nTherefore let the United States go ahead with their Navy\\nThe bigger they make it the better for them as for Britain\\nTill opponunism suggest them an ally superior.\\nAnd look well that you fall not off in your Fleet, O my country\\nNeither one alone can front all both together can front an\\\\-thing\\nBut the moral force of either supporting the other\\nWould virtually abolish war. since no retrogression\\nIs in their policy, but unlimited spheres of influence\\nFree to all. with none excluded, and tariff for revenue only\\nThe ideal aim not of doctrinaire but of taxpayer\\nWlieresoever taxes are paid, and no place escapes tl;em.\\nNeither geological depths nor those of the ocean\\nhere a shaft or a ship is sunk or an oyster is planted.\\nOn the shores of any hemisphere known to cartographers.\\nBut if the Continent get ahead on the ocean.\\nThe nations would limit both us and the States on the waters,", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "Kcmanrling sca-frcclom once more to the Runnymede status,\\nTransforming civilization into a tragedy.\\n305.\\nThere is a distillate in riches that envelops the nature\\nOf individuals and nations, pervading it solidly,\\nAnd transforming it whether they will or not; why, we knov,- not.\\nOr may know and accept not the knowledge but neutralization\\nOf the result to the mind of this vapor enwrapping\\nMay be latent in moral law; if not, it is nowhere,\\nAnd escape from the stational intoxication is hopeless.\\nFrom the a?nanthic ether of new actuation.\\nDedication to noble purpose by men and by nations\\nBelongs to the young and the poor, although their devotion\\nIs less to seli-purification than to calling attention\\nTo that which is achieved. But their frugality and energy\\nAnd persistence in morals being rewarded, they turn spendthrifts\\nOn personal account, commonly within their incomes.\\nOf all that rendered them good and great, setting example\\nOf egoism for themselves, and of big precept for others\\nTo go and do likewise but never admitting that chances\\nAre not with desires coequal, nor even with necessities.\\nThis is the permanent deadlock point. Exhorting is not supporting.\\nWealthy men cannot support poor men in their virtues.\\nLet the poor men get rich for themselves and sustain rich men s virtues.\\nOr the vices the wealthy unfolded on quitting their poverty.\\nThis canto has value only for thinkers impartial.\\nAntagonists by profession and hireling defenders,\\nWhile not comprehending, will faithfully misrepresent it.\\n306.\\nA wonderful man was Dandolo Doge of Venezia.\\nlie was an admiral also and mighty victorious\\nIf great age were enfeebling, inadmissible supposition.\\nHis conquest thereof ought to rank him with Duncan or Dewey,\\n273", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "For at ninety-four years he captured Constantinople,\\nBy two hundred and fifty years antedating the Turk there.\\nHis poHcy was expansion of trade, not contraction,\\nBHnd old Dandolo, senex-in-chief of all old men in history.\\nWho, if feeble, vanquished his weakness as much as the city.\\nOur Old Man was as nothing to him, sovereign, statesman and sailor,\\nWho, older and sightless, could still see the interests of Venice.\\nIf our symposians were just in their views as to sea-states,\\nI should consider the British Empire a soap-bubble\\nOf longer duration by virtue of soapfat more viscous.\\n307-\\nWithin some long decades there died a great man named Jomini.\\nHe is in himself to this day a text-book on some subjects.\\nHe was a magnate high in the service of Russia.\\nOne of his maxims is that no nation of Europe\\nNot connected with Europe by land, should have naval preponderance.\\nHe was afraid, I suppose, of the manifest destiny\\nWhich a giant fleet could distribute in cargoes assorted\\nAll over the planet, consigned through ports and doors open,\\nProvided five million moujiks could not march on its home-ports.\\nBy afifable negligence Russian we got a great navy\\nWhich is a pigmy yet when you think of its duty.\\nAnd which only our friend of the States would desire to see larger.\\nWith one purpose two nations are tacitly allied against it\\nEor reasons neither concealed nor explained by diplomacy.\\nThis is the dullest alliance since man began bookkeeping.\\nWe shall not make manifest destiny a present to any one,\\nNor to any two were we willing, the States would resent it.\\nSo I presume we shall go on defying Jomini\\nTill every alliance shall bind itself not to assault us.\\nWhile we open a new door per week for all nations equally.\\nMoral force ought to carry this proposition to triumph\\nIt will, with sufficient army and navy behind it\\nAnd initiative force enough to justify alliance.\\n274", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "3o8.\\nA great people is great alone by its ethnical genius\\nAs developed from nature and circumstance and location\\nAnd when these three form a coalition to favor it\\nThe destiny of such genius is manifest and irresistible\\nIf ignorance or apathy let it not slide to some other\\nThat is, it depends for its irresistible quality\\nOn those who resist new genius to death, the politicians.\\nWith the brotherhood-bolster the cornerstone of republics,\\nThese fellows are loud in denial of human fraternity\\nSo long as they lead not thereto, neither follow to profit.\\nRather give us the Middle Ages again and bull barons,\\nIf electorates did not rise up by epochs to smash them\\nIf God made you different from me, I respect your identity,\\nThough I covet neither that nor your other possessions.\\nWhat was his purpose I cannot define, but I see one,\\nAnd believe not in fiscal nor naval device to defeat it.\\nLive and let live in the end we shall all shout that motto.\\nI dififerentiate in behalf of your nature impartial\\nWhen it is, and would burn this pamphlet ere hurting your feelings.\\nBut I do not believe in continents antagonistic.\\nIn nations allying by hemispheres and defying.\\nOur fathers fought for the world shall their sons strive for sections,\\nTJndoing their efTorts, reversing the lessons of history\\nMonarchy is not effete you set us a-laughing,\\nYou joyous boys who follow the plow and discount it,\\nA^ ^hen you say so we have great energy study a little.\\nPerhaps you formulate restlessness into doctrine\\nAnd push it in unknown spheres, and lo it is patriotism\\nThe fact that rich women from the States marry Britishers not rich\\nMeans nothing for nor against the life private or national,\\nThough it slices off moral support from demos to monos.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0*Tis an incident merely which brings to you none of their dollars,\\nAnd it does not augment the love of their land for the women\\nWho take fortunes out of it nothing so envious as demos,\\n275", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "Especially of those who go thence to be aristocratic.\\nBank not on these wedlocks as bonds in the friendship of nations\\nOn both sides, I admit, they are full of freedom and confidence\\nBut these women constitute an imperceptible minority,\\nAnd you must live with demos to know how majority scorns minority.\\n309-\\nI warble of sense and equity in this canto.\\nPut yourself in my place, put your country in place of my country\\nChange the names paste these lines on your door like a town-meetin notice\\nOr paste them into your hat for its mental affinity.\\nAnd thereon be judge of the equity of my purpose.\\nThe British flag trade belongs only in part to Our Empire.\\nIt is more than one half of the surplus industrial of nations\\nAnd belongs to the nations by shares both in trust and in transit\\nThrough the Cheapsides and Strands we have built for all men on all oceans,.\\nAnd it would belong to you equally had you built them.\\nIf we lose it the loss will be natural, like the trade loss of Venice.\\nIt cannot be kept, neither captured, by force at a profit,\\nAnd nature would give it again to who best should deserve it\\nAnd therefore, whether we win or lose in the ultimate,\\nI recommend that nature be not interfered with.\\n310.\\nThe champion saint of beatification is Felix.\\nI modestly favor the good I have seen in democracy,\\nAnd would favor it with trumpet and drum, could that spread its good things,.\\nPulverization of the monarchical snob being one of them.\\nBut of its absolutism I seek circumscription;\\nAnd could I for that do what Voltaire did for it in monarchy,\\nSaint Felix would ofifer me his aureole in the galaxy.\\nStepping down to the ring of the laymen as saint superseded.\\nI am humbly aware on this theme of my lack of importance.\\nYet might I contribute a hint to augment your importance.\\n276", "height": "2791", "width": "1955", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "Would you be product polished of society as we know it,\\nFull-toned barrister of the fixity where you are topmost,\\nfThe Calisthenes of some sacred level inmobile\\nIn some money-republic where money is not the res publica,\\nBut pauca for you, and privata, and res syndicata,\\nAutocracy being at work in a guise democratic.\\nAn oligarchy doing the work of the wealthy\\nYou remember that only possessions, or lack of them, classify.\\nOr would you be Aristothenes for uplifting\\nSuch level, like Henry the George as both leader and martyr,\\nSingle-souled and solely singular for your singleness,\\nThe sanctified jest of a winning gang of marauders?\\nBe patient, ye who say this criticism is not needed!\\nMy love of the good accentuates my hate of the hideous,\\nAnd no man has the right of content with persistent demerit.\\n311-\\nThere are certain things which no navy can do think a little.\\nIt can clear the line within gun-range on south coast of Cuba,\\nBut if landlubbers hold all the ports, what the use of the seamen?\\nWhere is the glory of riding the seas without commerce\\nIn such case a navy would cover them up as with sarcasm,\\nOr the seas with contempt much more potent might cover the navy.\\nThe things which our fleets cannot do must be done by our armies,\\nOr by yours, if in the same place you find similar duty.\\nSome persons must argue this out; why not you and I do it?\\nIf the States and Britain decide that no State grasping treaty-ports\\nTo itself exclusively, shall ever show its flag on the ocean,\\nI say ever, no matter how many years it may hold them.\\nTill such ports be again remanded to treaty condition,\\nSuch threat would be puissant of persuasion but if the ports-grasper\\nShould meet it by prohibiting trade of the vStates and Britain\\nWith the ports annexed, who then would be ahead Two stout navies\\nWould neutralize one or more stout armies, all costing millions\\nPer diem, and not a ton of commerce to any one. How to end this?\\n277", "height": "2791", "width": "1955", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "By the open door and the equal rights of all nations\\nIn all ports every one included no one excluded.\\nThese lines are not all hexametric, but mighty suggestive\\nNot of settlement present so much as of maintenance future.\\n312.\\nThe oceans unite the continents which they dissever\\nTo break the monotony of one system of motion\\nBy the genius of builders of ships and the courage of sailors.\\nCombining for all on free level the means of dominion\\nAnd bestowing it in the end on the men who deserve it.\\nShall those first to float its advantage be first to sink under it?\\nTo the genius of empire a colony is an ally\\nWhere the colonial genius draws not on the empire.\\nThe oceans demand grand respect unique, and should have it.\\nThey contribute to gastronomy and commerce big values.\\nGeography laid out the seas to dissever for binding;\\nGod rpade the paradox, and you cannot defeat it.\\nThe sea is a prairie life-laden instead of root-burdened.\\nAnd bill-passers cannot transform it into a rampart.\\nIn the end the champion of Neptune is chief of the nations.\\nWhich of itself shows the folly of limiting port-rights.\\nAnd all double-bassos of severance will yet sing this canto\\n313.\\nWilliam Penn s ex-colony wrenches from me a stump-canto.\\nShall we stand by and stare while ships and trade perish in cinders,.\\nThe fatal Philadelphian s fire-sea of the envious succeeding\\nThe beauty and use of the stars and the waters united?\\nShall Neptune expire an unrising Phoenix, and Thaumas\\nBe burned in the grottoes occult where the fishes are jocund\\nBy the Pennsylvanian conflagration of oceans?\\nAn economist of that fire-state has lighted my fury,\\nAnd I burn like a lump of its coal at its fiend calorific,\\n278", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "Its demoniac alchemist of petrolian Atlantic\\nShall we lose navigation, without which God s planet Is blank to ns.\\nIts glories, and foreign sales of Pennsylvanian surplus.\\nAnd the bravery that grows by the fight with the sons of the tempest\\nEather perish by ocean this brother of love so high-heated,\\nThis lurid patriot whose faith is in chances diminished\\nLet him sizzle to death in the fluid of Penn s opportunity,\\nThis transcendent citizen of new egoism of delirium,\\nThis son of a port seeking greatness by ashes of waters!\\n314-\\nA thing destroyed is destroyed; if rebuilt it is twice paid for.\\nThe loss is fixt, no matter to whom it be shifted.\\nA means of preventing war is too little considered\\nLet the banded assurance companies of all nations\\nRefuse to pay any losses whatever by warfare\\nInstead of insanely seeking inordinate premiums.\\nThe valorous and light-hearted sinners who vote army conflicts\\nWould then pause and ponder prior to doing the vote-act.\\nIn a long struggle no premiums could pay for the losses\\nTo inflict which the high purpose is of modern equipment.\\nNearly bankrupt insurance bacame by the fire of Chicago,\\nWhat would result from destroying a dozen Chicagos?\\nMore capital lost than to-day exists in assurance.\\nBet not on the combination of good luck and avarice\\nEven if one could win all the others w(5uld only be beggars.\\nAnd no one is richer that some other fellows are paupers.\\n315-\\nThough I oppose war for deciding nothing by merit\\nExcept the luck of the combatants, and may be their merits,\\nIf any, or that of their issues, yet I see the necessity\\nOf being ready to devastate when the threat comes\\nNot to threaten any one, but to make menace hopeless.\\n279", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "Is an occult starvation slowly absorbing our stamina\\nThe overproduction of man in this tiqht little island\\nLeaves him not quite half enough home-grown food, wilh the chances\\nThat some vicious foreign dullard will cut off the other half,\\nThus spoiling his market as well as leaving us hung-ry\\nWhose average dinners are neither too big nor too frequent.\\nIs this th.c v.ay to breed men fit to follow Guy Nevil,\\nA ery much of a buccaneer, but no worse than the next best?\\nCoarse plenty and rugged certainty were the portions\\nOf all Britons once now they pend on our foreign relations.\\nIt brings up Lord ^^^olseley s suggestion of general conscription.\\nAll other peoples conscript let us look to our assets\\nImagine our food-ports blockaded and hunger in menace\\ne should tumble over ourselves volunteering by millions,\\noluntering by race as no other has dared in its frenzy.\\nI .ut trampling ourselves as a mob into ruin by millions.\\nThis invites a flamboynnt picnic in sections colossal\\nBy those who love us the least throug^h our richest possessions.\\nTherefore let us make ourselves conscripts according to Wolseley\\n316.\\nOld men of old races are justified in their insight,\\nBlood heritors of tradition the equal of wisdom.\\nAnd when they accumulate insight the years nnist come with it\\nAs storing the value for homogeneous transmission.\\nYou are not so much vicious as foolish to label them laggards.\\nIn the flush of mere youth be not proud of blind vigor Samsonic,\\nNor of experience miscalled await ripeness of balance.\\nAnd conscience, yet higher than this, as tribun?il appellate,\\nThe court of the border-sphere of both sentence and pardon\\nWhich in age sits sublime in review of the errors of interest.\\nShrink not from tlie things unknown because unfamiliar\\nThey may overtop the best in your previous acquaintance.\\nHxpectnot that youth will be spared, nor great age. for I know this;\\nI know that no age finds exemption unless accidental,\\n280", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "Because accidents and the ignorance of your fellows\\nMake you victims but they should purpose to keep ofi your premises.\\nGreat age may survive the theory of fittest survival.\\nDo the fittest survive in this sphere and the dead in a fitter?\\nThis does not involve immortality, neither extinction.\\nWe may die many times as experiments for high living,\\nAnd then die a final death of disgust at the issue.\\n317-\\nThe physical fall of Rome left its genius survivant\\nAnd the common law of the dead to-day governs the living.\\nThe poet s pen yet may write for the Premier the program\\nComprising a common lav/ superseding all other\\nBut that bard is far oflf, and the syndicates must remould him\\nIn accord with the law v hich makes present common law worthless,\\nOnly fitted for being supplanted by syndicate statute.\\nIvlr. Depew was the orator of the railways\\nBefore he stepped out of a syndicate into a Senate.\\nMr. Rogers once made at New Bedford a speech on petroleum\\nAnd lawyers and transportation combined with spring water,\\nIn relation all with his Company s methods superior,\\nWhich makes me tremble for Mr. Depew on the forum\\nAnd wonder why Rogers is desk-bent and wasted in silence,\\nFor he ought to succeed a great many men in a Senate.\\nThese gentlemen are my friends, so my footing is sanded;\\nAnd I may be the poet to write for a Premier a program\\nWhich shall promulgate My Syndicate over all others,\\nAnd of the next century we three may step first as immortals.\\n318-\\nRemember the poor old Court-Fool who is whistling of patriotism\\nLondon will not be so populous, rich nor commanding\\nIf you defend British commerce by quoting the decalogue\\nAnd making Moses an Admiralty-judge in far Orient.\\n281", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "Meanwhile I advocate alliance that will stop buccaneefing.\\nLet the Lion roar and the Eagle shriek, filling with wonder\\nThe stars that so little a planet should make so high racket\\nWhile two nations fight twenty for freedom of waters and commerce I\\nWhat do we care for abroad? screamed a patriot unshackled,\\nReturned from a tour which might have enlightened a penguin\\nIf a disposition to learning had governed the transit.\\nI am not heaping ridicule here, but quoting a statesman\\nWho has since revolutionized his ideas about transit\\nAnd has come to regard as one of his lakes the Pacific.\\nBecause Dewey was lucky as well as great at Manila,\\nThe States take pacific possession of all the Pacific,\\nMr. Grievely s ex-friend being orator of the ownership.\\n319-\\nWestward the trend of the ruler, according to Berkeley.\\nWhile all lovers of light are delighted to run as the sun runs,\\nAmerica cannot westwardly overspread Asia,\\nAnd Asia might better not westwardly overspread Europe\\nFor reasons obvious enough to abbreviate this canto.\\nLet empire grow only as civilization can build it,\\nSince manifestly at present the two are not synonyms.\\nSo t is best not to get too much west in your empire. Lord Bishop I\\n320.\\nFate compels us to die or be great how dare we be timid\\nYet patriot am I quite as much for your patria as Britain,\\nBecause if, after nineteen centuries of more or less Olivet,\\nYou still bet on a cannon-shot chance to establish your greatness,\\nYou are hypocrite, in no moral sense above China,\\nWhether the morals be measured by Christ or Confucius,\\nOr applied to Germany, Italy, the States, or some other.\\nLet us all own the world for the good of all men, not for sections,\\nNot for water-walled hemispheres contemptuous of equals,\\n282", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "But in competition of altruists rather than gorgons.\\nThe seas wall not Britain; they lead to her markets, and from them.\\nYou can come to Britain and sell, buy, go home, load, and come again.\\nIf we people our planet to constitute nations for mischief.\\nWhat good would it do us or them to know other planets\\nUnless to enlarge our capacity to promulgate\\nThe system from star to star of saltpetre and sulphur,\\nTo augment the spheres and the causes of misunderstanding?\\nAfter all, when they think of the uses to which we should put it.\\nThe Olympians, I deem., laugh at nothing so loudly as science.\\nThus for all reasons, moral and other, we should not be timid.\\n321.\\nAdvanced mind is often no mind, since, at end of the measure,\\nThe advancement is less that of prophet than that of quack doctor.\\nHowever, general slow growth does not equal one genius.\\nBut genius it must be let not the semblance deceive you.\\nNapoleon knew better than France, which still pays interest on his wisdom.\\nThis outlaw of Vienna, only too glad to surrender\\nHis forfeited life to his foe the most generous and constant\\nHis own words insincere but spoken with prompt Latin glibness\\nOnly too happy to spring up the side of Bellerophon,\\nSafe afloat in a centre of arms from the vengeance of Europe\\nAdmired in this era by only the dregs of the feudal.\\nTake his genius as foil for ours, not on his last island,\\nWhere his ending leaves him the largest failure in history.\\nBut ten 3^ears this side of it. Imagine Trafalgar repeated\\nWith result reversed and our allied foes with two Nelsons!\\nThen our genius would envy his genius on his last island.\\nWith an empire not only collapsed, but three kingdoms in famine.\\nIs the study of politics a fraud That depends on the student.\\nWhy do I link the food question so close with the naval?\\nI once starved for six weeks in a waste, and I therefore know hunger.\\nPut some man who has starved as adviser to the Lords of our Sea-Plows\\nAnd see whether the furrows would not bear more food and better\\n283", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "Z22.\\nBut whatever befall, tra-la-la, in the fate of our Empire,\\nOur monarchy stands for all rights and, serene in the duty,\\nShall not be alone in a struggle nor victim of dacoit.\\nSo sing Laureate and beefy squire but Vvhere are the allies?\\nWe had no foreign friend with our peace-at-any-price program,\\nNone who trusted the wonderful conduct that let Gordon perish\\nAnd with which the fame of its author will yet have to reckon.\\nHave we burned the craven sheet? Have we more initiative than Portug-al\\nAfter miles of moral essays and decades of snubbing?\\nThe Marquis sings a sweet note in reply to the Russian\\nAnd lays down two ships for a million pounds each. I have confidence.\\nNot necessarily freedom means separation\\nFederals preached this doctrine for four armed years to Confederates.\\nThe cloudiest fooling I know of envelops this subject.\\nFree to stay, free to go that is genuine independence\\nNear or far is merely an incident of geography\\nNot to be counted by those who comprehend empire\\nOr understand the planet from island or continent.\\nDistance, like space, is part of the order deistic,\\nAnd dividing seas bear the bonds and the burdens of union\\nWhat they separate they unite put that fact in your platform,\\nOr set up the ocean commerce of nations as yacht-fun\\nTo be operate as a bill of expense not of profit.\\nSea-water is much too clear to muddle a doctrine,\\nAnd proximity and remoteness fall overboard as such.\\nI am not a doctrinaire, nor is this a mare s nest.\\nBut as fact it may exert adjustive force in your politics.\\nClose aboard is Cuba, tis true but far, far the Philippines are.\\nJustice of dominion bears no relation with water\\nOr with land either or both justify it perfectly\\nWhen all other facts and incidents justify equally.\\n284", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "Nations must agree on proximity and remoteness\\nOr capsize all political rights that depend for their tenure\\nOn the near or the far, by fighting as to their meaning.\\nThis is a hint for reforming the laws of relations\\nAnd for sinking the porcine conceptions hitherto prevalent.\\nIslands are merely the summits of submarine mountains,\\nThe visible surface; but whether by freak of volcano\\nOr creative design, my cantos lack science to sing you\\nNeither is it important for that which I seek to establish,\\nNew law for nations in comedy of the patriots.\\nJust as comic editors ought to fill cabinets and embassies,\\nSo laws should be made by patriots in comedy-congress.\\nContinents equally are but islands expanded.\\nIslands henceforth will gravitate neither by latitude\\nNor by bulk; but by higher conditions; and so with the continents:\\nMr. Seward s higher law bore not on slavery exclusively.\\nDo you rise any nearer now to duty and destiny?\\nYou may rise or may fall until destiny compel duty.\\nIn which you will need an ally, with only one possible.\\nGeographic proximity, water between or no water,\\nIs a topographic accident not to be counted\\nIn the inherent right of selection political\\nAnd the indefeasible rights of rebel and sovereign.\\nBritain governs the world not as island, but home of great races.\\nThe Cubans themselves would not deem Cuba fit for such station.\\nThree-fourths of the rights of the planets are lodged in its oceans\\nWith nature s demands of exchange who defies or ignores them\\n324-\\nWith those who seek hemispherical segregation,\\nSetting race against race by mere continental division,\\nI take prompt and permanent issue in name of all races\\nAnd continents not less sacred the coast than the hilltop,\\nWhile the ocean that leads to the beach is as rich as the prairie,\\nIs no less in the wisdom and glory of him who made both of them.\\n285", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "He who thinks otherwise fails as the friend of all sailors.\\nFails as the friend of the equal rights of all tiagdom.\\nWould you abolish all that makes up navigation.\\nAMiat feeds it, I mean, for evemhing pays for itself ultimately?\\n3 here is no walled-oflF America. Asia or Europe,\\nBut a water-united world not separate by doctrine\\nOf Canning or any one else no law in such doctrine.\\nOr Leif Eriksen and Columbus were sarcasms as sailors,\\nThe compass-men of a smiling god who enlarges\\nThe sphere of the demon of irony without mercy.\\n325-\\nThe office of seaman is that of uniting all lubbers\\nBy exchanging the products of those afraid of being seasick.\\nOr those not ideally developed as long-distance swimmers.\\nThe narrow fierce appetite of the local popotamus\\nShall never be anicled in the faith of the peoples,\\nBut rather the unitive rights of the seas for all nations.\\nXet all peoples refuse to look on the seas as dissevering\\nLet them look on the foam of their crests as the froth of false doctrine\\nPromptly absorbed in the deep solid blue of bond-bearing,\\nOr interest-bearing: bond as you choose the significance.\\nCuba is close aboard, to be sure; but far. far the Philippines are.\\nYet I deem that both were annexed for justifying this canto.\\n326.\\nEditors hereafter ^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ill take editorials from destiny,\\nExcept the comic-editors they always make it\\nWhen left to themselves and with it they never make trouble.\\nFor liberty is no longer the partisan bauble\\nOf the claygods who never arise above their extraction.\\nDuty and destiny have been mingled in politics.\\nAnd the editors and Senators of the forefathers\\nAre back numbers since the States joined Britain as leader\\n286", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "Minus quantities they, both at home and in future imperial.\\nTry not to mould the incongruous into net reasons,\\nFor fate is incongruous in that no one mind can grasp it all,\\nAnd no two quite agree as to what is incongruous in it\\nI mean any particular fate, such as that of a nation\\nNot fate total, since over that even the gods used to blunder.\\nI rejoice in success, but refuse to be blind to its sources.\\nI am glad of success, be it that of a man or a people\\nBut I insist upon localizing the stati;\\nOn the specific definition of causes\\nAnd luck hemispheric involves not political merit\\nAny more than wealth involves greatness, or poverty dullness.\\nPointed case was that of Lord Lome and late Editor Dana,\\nWith the gravity of Pluto, the wit of Mephisto.\\nDana could not answer Lord Lome about text-books of falsehood\\nOn which anent Britain the youth of a nation are nurtured\\nSo he called him not serious and turned on the hose of his jingo\\nAs argument to drown truth and federation of interests.\\nOnce eliminate from your lo-quence the chances of quarrel\\nAnd your barnyard expoundings would lessen in vogue and in value.\\nNot one line of national enmity in my Cantos\\nI simply desire to expose the Dan Webster of barnyards\\nAnd fit him for beef, this bull-making bull among peoples.\\nBut death dealt with inimical Dana, to immense disadvantage\\nOf Mephisto as wit, of Pluto as force inspirational\\nTheir reputations diminish by lack of exponent.\\n327.\\nI care not if luck made him great, neither can I decide it\\nAt this distance whatever it was, he was great, and that ends it.\\nHe lost not his head in the task, neither shrank from the duty.\\nAccepting destiny, and helping both to joint purpose.\\nAs we deem that the States intend in a large modern area.\\nGreatest man best comprehends and best does a great duty,\\nIncluding the duty, too, of accepting his destiny.\\n287", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "The foremost of all our grand kings was not Alfred, but Egbert.\\nHe began with the lucky number of seven to build empire.\\nGo a thousand years back and seven pillars of state were his basis.\\nThe succeeding continuity is one of the marvels\\nOf achievement perhaps the foremost are we to dilapidate\\nLet us smother the wrath of the thought, for I dare not express it.\\n328.\\nEre adopting results, am inquisitive of conditions.\\nWhether democracy had done equally well with Confucius\\nAnd the Chinese as it has with Christ and the British,\\nExample tells not we have nothing but inference to go by.\\nBut experience concerning fresh acres is not inferential.\\nPart of my youth was devoted to reverence for Jefiferson\\nAs father of everything practicable in popular sovereignty,\\nBrazil was a giant monarchy and resplendent\\nIn everything nature creates from diamond to snowpeak,\\nIts government putting in vogue certain unique ideals.\\nDom Pedro was up to the level of Diaz of Mexico,\\nWith even less constitutional twist in authority.\\nRating constitutions as serious stays in a crisis.\\nBut the imperial Portuguese in the tropics\\nFigure not up with the Britons on temperate zone prairies.\\nBut psychical research alone could determine the value\\nOf how much race and zone each contribute to civilization.\\nBut let us quit overrating the ethnical value\\nOf political institutions where all are imperfect.\\nMonarchy is not so mammonite as some others,\\nj Altho it hath plenty of faults but I know a respublica\\nWhere the dullest, if opulent, eclipses the brightest\\nUnless, too, the brightest display with spondulics his lustre.\\nRace is, after all, more important than system or latitude.\\nJefiferson was great, I repeat I was one of his henchmen.\\nHe precipitated a fight whereof the evolution\\nShows revolution up in the only just instance,\\n288", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "That of adversaries reverting to first common principles.\\nAs in man there is something greater than man, so in races\\nThere is something greater than many great men for a purpose\\nAnd great man Jefiferson may have been greater as instrument\\nIn giving the dual convergence to manifest destiny.\\nThis canto conveys him my compHments on his birthday\\nWith so many dinners celebrate in Manhattan.\\n329-\\nI remember the day when Britannia was Genius of Europe\\nWith Wellington saviour of freestates all round the Atlantic,\\nAccording to Cardinal Hfred, who is far from pro-British\\nWith Wellington, most important of soldiers for freestates\\nWhen the sea beat the beach with the rote of the sailor triumphant,\\nAnd the trident afloat taught the sceptre ashore to surrender\\nWhen Nelson proclaimed to the nations an ocean dominion\\nTo which that of the land must defer in expansion of freedom,.\\nAnd prevailed on Napoleon not to land armies in Canada.\\n330.\\nYou see, Britain alone is free with freedom the real,\\nThe pure simon, the sublimate essense in fog or smoked sunshine\\nFree to destroy herself with a high moral Ministry\\nThat deprecates war in a way which invites its beginning\\nThe freedom of absolute right and not that of privilege,\\nMaking equally stalwart the conscience, the arm and the courage\\nOf the man in himself and thereby of the whole of the people,\\nBut if Czar and republic know how to surpass in cohesion\\nThis system, how can we scape an imperial literary backslide?\\nFromi the Ionian Isles to the days before Egbert\\nOur New Lights may illuminate yet every phase of surrender.\\nGreat Britain, the foreigners tell me, is merely her Premier,\\nWho, if she change him six times a year, has six policies.\\n289", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "If so, tis much worse than our cousins on tariff and currency.\\nBut we will not present them our commerce and enipu-e in sections.\\nOnce they comprehend that, our symposian burden is lighter,\\nThough it always suggests to the envious a chance to assault us\\nAnd maketh the very existence of Britain more difficult.\\nTherein is the giant crime of the British idealogue.\\nThey who challenge the expediency of empire for these kingdoms\\nIMight challenge as well the expediency of their conmierce,\\nOr of the popular requirement of earning a living.\\nSince the two are not separable such part of the Empire\\nAs we might renounce would be instantly seized by another\\nAnd promptly tariffed against us would that be expedient\\nPrescience is aglow even in the ashes of Beaconsfield\\nHow can the electorate tolerate his opponents?\\n331.\\nA peace-at-any-price kingdom surrounded by empires\\nAMiich tremble by tread of their troops, cannot live by despatches.\\nPeter and Frederick the Great quote no Closes, nor William tl:c Sudden.\\nEvery nation gets what it deserves in the end, ours included.\\nI write for to-day, or a hundred years hence, or a thousand,\\nAnd against transferring the Foreign Office to a pulpit\\nOr to magazines loaded with idealogical freedom\\nFifty years ago this was played out by the New Lights of Boston\\nFaneuil Hall men. remembered only for beating Dan Webster,\\nWho won half the State of Maine with his pen, and they not a thing!\\nOf course, when ideal days come I shall be an idealogue\\nIf I live indeed I have always longed for the chance to be.\\nI shall then be literary, too and shall lecture, Aminta-like.\\nBut literary politics will not bring these ideal days\\nIt invites, rather, square foot encroachments, or giant aggression.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Could we smash a dual alliance without any alliance?\\nPatriotism is, in your spite, quite a comical quantity,\\nAnd when statesmen are solemnly funny, laughter rebellows;\\nBetween continents it rolls on the tops of the billows.\\n290", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "1 once eastvvardly crossed the Atlantic before a full gale of it.\\nTwas addressed by the West to us we took it with dignity.\\nGreat Britain is gifted with dignity of two qualities,\\nOne of which it pays to assert the other to let some one else assert.\\nThe Columbus of nations in polity, morals and science.\\nMay we navigate future keels between Bangkok and London,\\nOr shall we seek seas surreptitious to carry free commerce\\nNavigation, you see, not always depends on ships only.\\nThe right to the sea needs an army as well as a navy\\nThis little fact may be realized ere I print it.\\nLet us make France happy by promptly quadrupling our army.\\nOnly Britain works problems out gratis for use universal\\nFrom the Constitutions of Clarendon to the Colonies,\\nAnd yet to be blufifed on our trade in the south-east Pacific\\nOn account of some chief always wrong in our foreign relations.\\nIn the relations, that is, which insure our existence\\nThe Transvaal war showed us up as mere maskers in empire\\nAnd gave us the luckiest experience in all British history\\nUnless cant and blufif may sustain our attempt, as they cannot.\\nAs a scarecrow gainst wonderful men I have set up this canto,\\nAgainst every mere wonderful man, whatsoever his ofjfiice.\\n332.\\nI think I could follow the light of my Japanese noble.\\nOf him whom the ghost of Demosthenes praised in my fancy,\\nHigher guide of an earlier dawn in an orient more shining.\\nIf Britain would swear against Premier of Penjdeh forever.\\n333.\\nThe human mind is too small for the globe which it lives on\\nFor its structure, use, age for the hope in its cosmic relations,\\nAnd even for avoiding misuse of its simplest provisions.\\nSome have said that it soars, and it may but its pinion is laggard,\\n291", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "That of tliis human intelligence winged in the doubtful.\\nYet I have no idea why our God should so make it or leave it.\\nThat is the reason why bibles and systems oppress us,\\nAnd priests who annihilate creeds by their self-contradictions\\nI refer to political preachers as well as religious.\\ne are too small for large usages in right thinking.\\nAnd fevered brains give no aid in the scope of our struggle\\nWe lapse to participants simple in their delirium.\\nI have studied this out in the deeps and the steeps of the Andes,\\nIn their low humid heats and the rarefied air of their snowtops\\n\\\\Vhere I heard the planet revolve in the chasms of their silence.\\nAnd in tlie nomadic valleys and crests of the oceans.\\nAnd on their unrufBed level as well, where the color\\nAnd absence of limitation abound \\\\vith expansion\\nAnd e^cpression yet can I think to no proper conclusion,\\nNeither otter the slightest suggestion for building new prophet.\\n334.\\nStrip religion of superstition and make it devotion\\nTo true moral aims proven up by strict secular standard.\\nAnd you will do more to justify Christ and salvation\\nThan all tlie cathedrals have wrought since the crucifixion,\\n^More than you could if you gave every fellow a million.\\nThere is no other way to make a success of religion\\nAs capital makes a success of itself none denying.\\nAll accepting, simply because it achieved what it promised.\\nAchievement, you see. not argument, doctrine and preaching.\\nIs required not recourses of theologicians in interest.\\n335-\\nOf small men in small office swell not the self-sufficiency\\nRather compress them both into their natural circle.\\nIn making tidewaiters saints of high pay, you but mock them.", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "Not room enough in one ship for the genius of Rodney,\\nAnd a captain first-rate might fall off in an admiral s battle.\\nIf it be wisdom to wrench from the king s hand his sceptre,\\nWould you have it swung as free mace by policeman imported\\nThe crown never cracked your free crown free policemen have done it.\\nAnd free magistrates, partly imported, have freely upheld them.\\nBe not too gay in the swing of shillelagh municipal\\nA g-ay race is just lovely for fun, but not much on self-government.\\nEither you will not examine your failings, or dare not,\\nLest your analysis end in collapse of your fetich.\\nYou may think that you know, or think that you think, yet do neither.\\niWhen wild with the combination of progress and patriotism\\nArrest yourself and bethink many others your equals\\nHave been equally wild then prance a pace in reaction,\\nWhich itself at particular stages of frenzy is progress.\\nThere are many forks from the pike, but not always a guideboard.\\nRecall that God m.ade the whole world for the whole of his children.\\nAnd forget not what President Lincoln said of his judgments.\\nAlbeit one higher than Lincoln established the statute.\\nNor what for a point that is sharper he said of the swordmen.\\nAnd do not exaggerate Lincoln he would not be grateful\\nThat you should attribute to him what v.as due to occasion.\\nHe was warm of heart, but experience had made him a cynic\\nIn time to be wise for the station that worried and killed him\\nBut he was not proud, neither vain and despised misconception\\nMore if it oven-alued than if it decried him.\\nJust appreciation is what is required, and not glamor.\\nImportant events are belittled by injudiciousness,\\nAnd important men and overesteeming is part of it.\\nIt gives to ideal figures false force with a people.\\nLeading astray both the love and the faith that prompt worship.\\n336-\\nDemagogy is damned in the virtues it stifles,\\nWhich it drowns in the roar of the vulg^ pride and self-praises\\n293", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "That destroy aspiration by libelling it affectation.\\nIt leaves on the surface only its own superiorities.\\nBut the thicker the water the denser its power of flotation.\\nWe know that offences will come, but twice woe to their autlior\\nNot he who first draweth the sword may be second to sheath it.\\nAnd the mere luck of having big friend may save you vast treasure,\\nA river of blood, and scandals expanded and numerous.\\nHas some sly prophet-fiend cut the not of the legends Mosaic,\\nThus turning the true light on you and the dark on your parsons\\nA stump sermon is this, not a speech, just to vary the topic.\\n337.\\nII y a un plafond a Versailles qui insulte ptusieurs peuples,\\nThe Teutons in point yet t was there they proclaimed liieir new empire-\\nLa revanche est douce, mais elle ne va pas toujours au meme peuple.\\nThe Salle des Glaces ceiling expresses as much the republic\\nAs it does L. Ouatorze the genius of Gallus a-crowing.\\nIn the coming war of revenge to be played for gross millards\\nLet i\\\\Ietz hoist the flag of Siam as the sign of estoppel,\\nOf freedom, equality, brotherhood in a republic\\nNot a homogeneous evolution like those of America\\nBorn ;Minerva-like in fresh fields of experience spontaneous,\\nWith new institutions selected from systems discarded\\nBy the giant minds who escaped the punition of treason;\\nBut the government which divides them the least, as Thiers said\\nNo division, however, about dividing another.\\nSiam, a white elephant on a red field quite suggestive\\nIn the South Pacific, O France, my aunt among nations!\\n338.\\nIf Abigail acquaint me correctly, Belial was the genius\\nOf mischief, of fun etalonic, glorious and lurid.\\nHis Christian successor and heir is the genius of Jingo,\\n294", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "Whose giant fun I should love were it not for the danger,\\nSince my passion and relish for fun so transcend all the others\\nThat I wish my old age may exhale as the chairman of fun-club.\\nOur conception of fun is heavy, narrow and insular.\\nThe thing properly means any joke from a pun to a riot,\\nWhereat anybody may laugh, from a mare to an empress,\\nOr from python to man, if it happen to tickle the temper.\\nJingo has come to be genuinely a newspaper Klondike.\\nThey have drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury,\\nAnd are madly gone on an ink-spree to punish the people\\nWhom their god castigates into wisdom through figures rhetorical,\\nA process quite loud, slow and queer, but the gods know their motives.\\nBut let them proclaim this as bluff ere it drift into bloodshed.\\nWe hope they will tip us the wink that t is part of their fun-stock\\nTill we laugh like Nabal, the most rollicking son of Belial,\\nAnd all cause of -offence evanesce in a cacchinate paean.\\n339-\\nIs democrat doctrinaire merely of demos embodied,\\nCarrying a chip on his shoulder and hitting his equal,\\nHitting Aristotle, Aristides, Perikles, Plato\\nBecause they were not with his fathers or did nothing for him?\\nDo not call the brass band we can both think more closely without it,\\nI mean the democrat everywhere, not in one country,\\nAnd whom I protest I respect more than any who flatter him\\nAnd then laugh in the sleeve, pop-sovereignty s favorite diversion.\\nI swear by the strength of great men that I feebly seek wisdom.\\nIf destined to general dominion no query can hurt him,\\nWhile criticism may give him both windfall and landfall.\\nIs he capable of coherence? Tis a fine question.\\nIs his party true to conviction or sure of cohesion?\\nIn the Philippines I have him just where I want him,\\nAnd in Cuba and thence he will answer and no fear of the answer.\\n29S", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "340.\\nIs the brotherhood of man a lighting fraternity\\nWhere high principles are arra3^ed for destroying each other?\\nMay be our foreseers and their shibboleth-force are exhausted,\\nWith moral disintegration surviving their errors.\\nI have not yet personally found possessor or professor\\nOf money who deems misfortune other than dereliction.\\nThere be those who may not so deem, but I have not found them.\\nShall we use the sword on the Gordian scheme of vicissitude\\nAnd abolish the same by exterminating its victims\\n341-\\nLet us be up and doing well but what shall we fly at\\nInspiration works both ways, sure as the Lord and the devil\\nIf not, what purpose would there be in a Lord and a devil?\\nShall we trouble ourselves to turn into moral lawyers\\nAnd go through all the principles and details of obligation\\nPrior to taking up duty? No, we will jump at it.\\nInvestigation of moral law is too long a preamble\\nTo our resolutions we get tired before we begin them.\\nWe know that the British fill history with cases of grasping\\nIn first instance, and building, and working in all situations\\nAs architects, psalmists, mechanics, merchants and shipmen\\nFor others good and their own, whether the others accept it\\nOr die fighting it which is proof of mixt good and evil\\nInextricable Let us pitch into Spain and dO likewise\\nWhy should not the filibustero forerun the missionary\\nFilibuster is product also of civilization.\\nOf the dregs of it and ere it cast its own dregs out,\\nLet it offer its food and wine to the hungry and thirsty,\\nEmploying the dregs as yeast to raise appetite for them!\\n342.\\nTc a swelling nation Great Britain showed amity saving\\nWithout which that nation was beaten prior even to beginning.\\n296", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "That was moral amity only, but it was ample\\nWith an amplitude which no nation but Britain could offer.\\nNow, as to reciprocating- such friendship, let Britain ask something\\nAnd she will be told her friendship was simple neutrality\\nOfficial cognizance only of unofficial leaning to win with\\nOr if more, let her show it, and compromise herself with the others\\nOn her own showing. Whom next shall we save on like conditions?\\nPerhaps Portugal, which we created and later we saved it.\\n343-\\nGreat ideas, if expressed, never perish but you must express them.\\nThis is hard to get done in the midst of small restless ambitions\\nWhere a pulpiteer seeks to govern the world by an epigram\\nOn a cubic inch of a topic as big as the planet,\\nOr some poet or literary fellow tries to do likewise.\\nNotions are pushed by the energies of conceivers\\nWho are victims, willing or not, of the vagaries they cherish.\\nThey displace great ideas or ideals, and flourish as fallacies\\nWith a deplorable vigor which nothing can stifle\\nExcept ridicule spread and sprayed by the printsheet comedians.\\nThus in the welkin of thought as in the political circus\\nCommon interests call aloud for the pleasantest element\\nSince seriousness feeds on itself till it swells into tragedy,\\nSeriousness of any description, private or public.\\nTherefore let us thank God most of all for creating comedians.\\nWho are foils or shields, for attack or defence, as is needed.\\n344-\\nNo nation, no men can anchor mankind to an era.\\nChrist made us fast to a principle, not to an epoch:\\nSo did Mahomet, politician as well he as prophet.\\nPolitical institutions are destined to be economic,\\nWhether they who built them knew it or built for a fixity,\\n297", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "Since true sense has ceased to exist in political squabbling.\\nThis is not your chance for an inkshed, but for haircloth and pebbles.\\nOn your past political frolics which burden the peoples.\\nSome barnacles deem progress stopped about Seventeen- Ninety.\\nOther barnacles invented continent-union,\\nThus making geography a political tyrant\\nFor amalgamating conditions essentially alien,\\nAnd for seeking to limit the limitless rights of the oceans\\nTo attach and to correlate as well as to separate.\\nThen came the Philippines instance, detaching all barnacles,\\nFounding planetary union, islands, continents, oceans.\\nAll waters and lands, in accord with the scheme of creation.\\nThus God seems to look out for his peoples in spite of some people.\\n\\\\Mien the gentlemen captained by \\\\\\\\\\\\ishington trusted the people\\nThey trusted the mass whom they knew not those whom they knew not\\nAnd that mass, in a moment of morphine, trusted some others\\nWho awakened them to the revelations of Lexow,\\nTo which has been added the inquest of Coroner Mazet,\\nUntil politics only seem free in political freedom.\\nWhy should colonial gentlemen know more than Plato\\nAbout a republic, or anticipate immigration\\nOf those classed by legislation as undesirable\\nPerhaps God permitted their idealogical practice\\nThat limits might be fixed to goodness by legislation\\nAnd mankind might revert to an aspiration more normal.\\n345-\\nThe western colonial continents will beat Europe\\nBecause of its interspiteful relations of races,\\nTill lust of continent-union shall rive the Americas\\n^\\\\nd there set up rival empires for neutralization.\\nAnd establish the law of jeehaw all over the planet.\\nEurope is paralyzed by the jealousies of its peoples,\\nThe weaker of which refuse to live up to the strong ones^\\nPreferring starvation in rancor like dogs in the manger\\n298", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "To permitting the potent to follow the bent of their genius.\\nThe states of blackmail oppose empire they never were born for.\\nThus shall Europe stultify all its best gifts of dominion,\\nIts wisdom of ages, the power of its savings and science.\\nNew Africa, flushed with colonial ambition and vigor,\\nIf not arrested by war too early and general,\\nWith Briton leading, possibly one American aiding\\nUntil lust just suspected shall arm for a sway hemispheric.\\nWill keep open the Nile and the seas from Gibraltar to Aden.\\nIf this be a dream of to-day your spites will translate it\\nTo-morrow into a fact, Europe, savage with envy.\\nWith one of the larger Americans ready to follow\\nYour example when lust of dominion shall stir up resistance\\nAnd for self-defence make a Europe-to-come of the Latins,\\nTriple and dual alliance there also offsetting each other.\\nYet I put faith against faith for a contrary issue\\nThough the bet might be even on morals or lust in this movement.\\nHuman nature dominates here, not political system.\\nAnd my faith, after all, takes root in political shiftiness,\\nShame and weakness at once of whatever proclaim ne plus ultra.\\nBut I humbly pray my big States to use long circumspection i\\nEven a share of industrial domination cannot mean continentism.\\nThe political difficulty of governing the unwilling.\\nAnd that still greater of subjugating insurgents,\\nAnd that yet greatest of all, the military conquest\\nOf millions of square miles and peoples, are very deterrent\\nEven in the first contemplation of cross-roads orators.\\nMoral suasion and tariff-wisdom are more to my fancy.\\nBecause, if destined to universal dominion,\\nWar would be superfluous and if otherwise destined,\\nWar could not beat fate and the sons of predestination\\nAre demons if they force quarrels to v/in natural purpose.\\n346.\\nIn this canto I bleat of black sheep let white mutton applaud me\\nPatience and shuffle the cards with no moneyed men betting\\n299", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "That summarizes one system of making you happy.\\nA\\\\ hy gape hke a hungry lost soul at the millions of Cachecaisse?\\nThe millionaire s riches are his not a guinea for your use,\\nNot even a cocktail to pay you for staying an earthquake\\nYou saved yourself, and the opulent gent was an incident.\\nYour duty to do and your god s to reward; that relieves him.\\nIf I say something new they will say there is nothing new in it.\\nTheir interest is to proclaim this a subject exhausted\\nAnd to justify god, the millionaire and the pauper\\nAs the trinitarian estate from which no escape is.\\nThese sheep are in any light black, or are white among negroes,\\nAmong whom black sheep are normal, a negro once told me.\\nAnd white sheep rare exceptions, he was proud to say. this black parson\\nOr old lambs of the devil in any case if they preach thus.\\nLet them feed the flocks with the former food, these new pastors\\ne know that on which we grew fat, and on what might grow fatter.\\nShiver not institutional timbers or other material\\nCathedral is an institution so is a battlefield.\\nCathedral tells what Christianism should be; battlefield what it is.\\nLet us preserve institutions, just like the heathen\\n347-\\nIconoclastes and ecclesiastes united\\nIn me, if they be, why do I not give you a system?\\nHow much of my theme would you use who reject all the others,\\nhich lack nothing themselves, but which you lack the spirit to follow?\\nI am not a ]Mahmoud shall I laugh at myself for a lesser.\\nFor an Andy Jack ]\\\\Iagic Staff formerly of Alanhattan?\\nNot ambitious am I where you have discouraged so many.\\nI prefer to remain a satirist, even a critic\\nAn aged light loiterer in ways that lead cheerfully graveward,\\n^Mio calls your attention to problems inviting solution.\\nRepetition of platitude may push the race forward\\nIf only in rage to get out of the sound of the sawmills.\\nThose where triteness is whipsawn in blocks and conundrums are fashioned.\\n300", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "I am also disheartened, remembering the doom of Cassandra,\\nWho, weary of knowing too much without force of persuasion,\\nBesought her god-lover resume the gift-curse of prediction.\\nAnd proudly died prophetess rather than marry Apollo,\\nHard god of the bards and fine arts who imposed the condition.\\nNo prophet was ever a man of trained mind, since no training\\nPermits the assumption of office so thankless and vapid\\nUnless he be drilled for the role of foreteller empiric.\\nOther reason why it is preferable not to be founder\\nIs that churches sometimes take in vain the names of their prophets.\\nNot always profession of priest includes purpose of seerage.\\nAnd misdedication of edifice frequently happens.\\nYet one we know that has two dedications for surety.\\nSancta Sophia of Stamboul radiates fame from two prophets.\\nOne morally best; the other intellectually wisest.\\n348.\\nI have tried to practise the good which the parsons inculcate,\\nAnd am short in my admiration of sinners successful,\\nAnd of him whose sole duty seems that of the jewsharp of platform,.\\nThe professional optimist of a swallowtail lecture.\\nThe dispenser of sections of sweetness and light that elude us\\nOf Dick Funsmith, whether we laugh at his jokes or their absence.\\nOr the Borean guflfmaster bluffing the victims of suffrage.\\nIf prophet at all, I would live in a land where no stones grow.\\nI can let laurels slide, but I would not be smitten like Naboth,\\nNor accept in a public a god more severe than Apollo.\\nThe possible forces itself into vision translucent;\\nThe translucent is slowly expanding to vision transparent\\nTill the light burn the film of enigma before the immortal,\\nWhen the revelation glorified shall surprise us.\\nThe seer of abolished death having opened the future\\nAs the ultimate achievement of psychical research.\\nLet us pair off; you cannot disprove nor I prove it,\\nFor the day is not yet for exploiting all worlds to our worldlings..\\n301", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "TIS the neutral land breeds the mirage seductive and splendid\\nAVhere hope and intelligence halt in the parry of effort.\\nWhat do you deem of this unbodied figure titanic,\\nOf my heretic-seer intangible of a sunbeam\\nho shall yet ere we die lift the veil of the first transformation.\\nThis son of two worlds who shall cut himself free of the drosser,\\nMan still, but subliming himself that he deify manhood\\n349-\\nWould you prefer to suffer the scourge of the righteous\\nAnd rather wallow in wishes than build a rich commune\\nWhere no single vast wealth might find foil in the state of the pauper,\\nTaking Christ for his church, and not other men s churches as Christian?\\nDespair would be mine were I not long too old to be hopeless.\\nGreat age outlives too much vicissitude to be pessimist,\\nThe vicissitude likewise forbidding it to be optimist.\\nI believe you will yet be renewed, but can name not the titan.\\nWill he surpass Christ who to death shall foreshow the undying\\nAnd in light inextinguishable fuse all religions and doxies?\\nLet us give up the riddle. I think I see Satan laughing\\nAt those who require to be stung into happier conditions.\\nAre the gods merely devils up-gifted instead of down-gifted?\\nI.^t us stow them away in a museum of beautiful lumber\\nIndividual incubi of the nightmare of mythics.\\nTheir glamored truths have hallucinated a planet\\nInstead of endowing a race with concreted ideals.\\n350.\\nYour self-deceit, visions and prayers are the charm of the C}Tiic.\\nYou are not deciding questions. Half a century I waited\\nFor a single finality, and am still looking for it,\\nThough ideal conditions seemed to prevail in your favor.\\nA Julius once set up an empire for Octavianus\\nAnd got killed that another might swell into fame as Augustus.\\n302", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "You are not yet killed, but have been doing not very much better.\\nIn the terms of the irony of the gods he was able\\nThough I do not approve Julius wholly, it hurts me to say this.\\nIt is all titillation. tympanic in funtank political.\\n351.\\nA wonderful Premier threatened the house that a question\\nOf United Kingdom concern might become international,\\nShould he miss the first of his series of steps toward heptarchy.\\nIn the comedy divine of the patriot sardonic\\nNo other act was so startling nor suffered so tamely.\\nGoethe dreamed nothing like this as a scheme for Mephisto.\\nDared no Eliot nor Pym accuse him as wicked Earl Strafford?\\nYet, O Shade of Lord Strafford, forgive If mistakes were thy portion.\\nSo were bigger valor and gifts, until casuists bigger\\nThan thy virtues and errors combined, could get rid of thee only\\nBy act of attainder not by laws, but by statute defiant\\nOf laws as they stood a nation wiping a man out.\\nThis was one of the British strokes of state that fill Britons\\nWith prayer, and with shame for their ethnological science.\\nI will not compare thee with him who would wipe out the nation,\\nThou strong man for union dead in a treason fictitious.\\nThou whose end, on his scaffold, the king declared justified his end,\\nSole Briton who might have rendered Cromwell impossible\\nCromwell, equally thorough with thee in whatever the puritan\\nCondemned in thee, and whom later the nation rejected,\\nBut not too late to release thy renown from its stigma,\\nThou Englishman not the less true because thou wast royalist\\nToo faithful to one not too high to be faithless in friendship,\\n352.\\nWhen I was reformer I used to think that if history\\nCould be wiped from the mental tablet and each generation\\nTake a fresh independent start like each individual,\\n303", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "Not handicapt, just detached like a child from its parents,\\nHow much larger life would be, how much fitter for following-.\\nBut I looked the Americas over, and there lived very nearly all over,\\nAnd studied them in their freedom from handicap freedom\\nSo complete as to authorize them to insult the anterior annals,\\nWhen their politics seem to require it, of nations parental\\nAnd I thus learned that freedom from history does not exempt us\\nFrom the evils recorded therein and that the handicap\\nIs in nature itself; and this fact called me down as reformer.\\nPulled me off as pulpiteer from the crusade on Clio.\\n353-\\nPolitical freedom depenas not on any religion,\\nNor denominational faith nor particular prophet,\\nSince the Greeks and Romans enjoyed it in spite of Olympus,\\nOr imagined they did; and some Norsemen in spite of Walhalla\\nAnd of pontifex and puritan built on it systems.\\nTill majority takes minority for a Pharisee,\\nAnd the ins can see in the outs hypocrisy only\\nWhile some citizens see in free commerce a crime against capital\\nTo which labor ought to contribute as part of its duty\\nMore largely in future than in the past, while new statesmen\\nSeek to stagnate the seas with the sewage of continentism.\\n.Faith has brought us so far in politics and religion.\\n354-\\nI am the friend of the Turk. Our old English puritan,\\nWith the gilt-edged faith of the golden rule, was a preacher\\nOf peace and war-robber of land among victimized races.\\nAnd with doctrinal stuffing of both could have smothered the Moslem,\\nHad not the latter been great some two centuries too early,\\nAs Longfellow shows, though that is not the hent of his story;\\nThis hadji in the West who overran Indian, witch, Quaker,\\n304", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "This spreader of all sorts of rights o er the square miles of others.\\nQuit your riotous bluffing-, ye who are guardians of freedom,\\nAnd suppress your stateboys a-boil with the fury of faction\\nNo matter the age of the leaders, the raving is boyish.\\nWhy not expand modern empire by conquering your vices\\nInstead of o erspreading the civilized world with their odium\\nMightier he who conquers himself than who captures San Stefano.\\nThe infidel Turk, like the Christian Spaniard, is cruel.\\nBut Armenian is worse at rebellion than Cuban or Fenius;\\nAnd the hand of power ought not to be pressed to light touching\\nWhen the hand of the rebel is ready and red and gratuitous.\\nAnd, unless by imperial cataclysm, hopeless of winning.\\nI am punished even yet for my wrongs even so let the Turk be\\nNot the less, if he must be slain by the Pope of Siberia,\\nFaith and country may slide; I am Moslem until the last trumpet.\\nI have just found a chance to make a stump speech about Russia.\\nLike the rest, it means nothing of course I am friendly with Russia,\\nAs I am with Aunt France when she shows just respect to my mother.\\n355.\\nThe social recognition of religious toleration\\nMay mean only indifferentism, O President Eliot\\nManhood suffrage implies that Harvard stands merely for irony\\nThe way you explain this away is strictly sophistic.\\nYou were betting, I guess, that no one would care to refute you.\\nIf electors are fitted without it, why would you fit them\\nWere you founded to teach that superfluous expense may be justified;\\nFor the using of time which might otherwise profit the citizen\\nYour book shows how education may handicap nature,\\nNot uplift and it begs several questions while feigning to answer.\\nFreedom from Europe with Europe freedom from your onset,\\nFrom another Mexican war as the Mexicans see it.\\nWith Europe allied, would annihilate the Monroe scheme.\\nMake the Americas really free, and not tutelary provinces,\\nAnd Asians, as part of God s family, shall inhabit America,\\n305", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "As America, spite of itself, has a fate Asiatic.\\nExtension is met by extension of doctrine and justice,\\nAnd not by discovery of motive after a triumph.\\nThe book of a secular cloisterman settles nothing-\\nExcept this, that he taketh the view which his cloister instructeth.\\nPreserve your fine Halls but bombard into brickdust the system\\nWhich confoundeth what is with the things which should be, Mr. Eliot\\n356.\\nThe Mediterranean will not be free when we leave it\\nSave to those permitted the privilege of its freedom,\\nBut Great Britain is first among those that will not get the privilege,\\nBritannia, who held it free to the world nineteen decades.\\nTwill become the Canadian Pacific Railway of seaways,\\nDoing for all the world what that route does for all North America\\nAnd for much of the commerce that runs between Europe and Asia.\\nSix nations or more will patrol its waters of privilege.\\nMaking trade subservient to jealousy miscalled dignity.\\nThen per hap the United States will become its custodian,\\nUnless Europe should draw up a tariff line at Tarifa,\\nAnd put up a Canning-Monroe job to save peace and safety\\nWhich the States would not menace in overriding coast jealousies.\\nBut we shall be always permitted to hold on to Cyprus,\\nIsle of Venus the First and our Richard the First and Lord Beaconsf,\\nDear to us all the way from Berengaria to Dizzy,\\nDear in the fun of the gods, and maybe the theatre\\nWhere Britannia will play empire played-out to an audience of empires.\\n357.\\nFundamentally second-class nations cannot be first-class\\nThe grasp of this giant truth will yet strangle the politics\\nThat seeks to seal treaty-ports up against trade universal.\\nTime will not turn back to oblige continental diplomacy,\\n306", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "2^either permanently stop at Tarifa for customs.\\nJeffersonian constitutions are merely charts for amendment,\\nMere parchments providing the means for enlarged constitutions\\nIn boxing the compass of empire and with or without us,\\nThe waterways between Socotra and Atlantis\\nMy States may hold free from the jealousies Middle Terranean.\\n358.\\nI once fancied I caught a satirical glance from Lord Chatham,\\nA quick frOwn from a brow of the past that had wrought for the future,\\nAs I stood on his grave, where his statue is very impressive.\\nAnd it suscitated a doubt that we still are maintammg,\\nThough free from the taint of vainglory for what he bequeathed us.\\nFirst among equals, or higher, or victim of envy.\\nHe seemed to imply that he ought to find equal successors.\\nMany moments are great, and some men only few are imperial.\\nShall the moment of empire look vainly for subject imperial,\\nOne more great in not wishing a crown than he would be in wearing one\\nGuy Nevil, who stabbed his horse dead in the Battle of Towton\\nAs the sign that he would not retreat and must not be beaten,\\nWas a maker of kings, and such subject is greater than sovereign.\\nBismarck and Beaconsfield, too, figure high in this peerage\\nSo high that their loyalty fascinates more than the royalty\\nWhich that loyalty lifted to places new to the monarchs.\\nGod keep us loyal all to something outside of egoism\\n359.\\nAlas for all gifts if we have not the gift of employing them\\nWhen I hear of great talent I think of its limitations\\nAnd of the useful field Just beyond its vain bailiwick,\\nWondering why it does not press itself over that border.\\nSince that is what talent should do in proportion to greatness.\\nAnd sentiment at its circumscription escapes me\\nin laughter or tears, as sorrow or irony govern.\\n307", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "Not one of the great who wrote mortuary screeds on Prince Bismarck\\nCould have achieved a tenth of his travail or triumph.\\nYet some dub him not great because of devotion to Germans\\nInstead of mankind, or humanity or something of that sort.\\nThis is intensely symposian. Are Germans not human?\\nWork for humanity and get left for the fun-men\\nWork for a section thereof and win purpose and honor.\\nThey lay out a full line of rot, as a bagman would call it.\\nLuther was an accident Bismarck a master of accidents,\\nBesides being originator and winner of policies\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2No founder of faith stands greater than he stands in politics\\nHe was capable of being pope of another religion,\\nBismarck a bigger Luther in field much more difficult.\\nDislike him if you like but fool not with his fame, O Symposians,\\nBecause he was not a god in a half-baked Walhalla.\\n360.\\nThose Englishmen who were capable, as in past ages,\\nOf going to Ireland and seizing the lands of the natives.\\nHowsoever mediaeval practice and law might sustain them.\\nAnd of living there by mere conquest, and of marrying the daughters\\nOf the natives, or forcing them on refusal to marry\\nBequeathing the hate of the slave and the lust of the master\\nAnd all qualities akin therewith in the offspring,\\nSuch passions of course being transmissible without limit\\nAs well as the passions of antagonistic religions\\nThose Englishmen were likely to leave as descendants,\\nAnd aided by pratings of constitutional freedom\\nFor all which the masters only enjoyed, they were likely\\nTo bequeath a race not found elsewhere unless where I say not.\\nThis is succinct anthropologic presentment\\nOf the Irish, question around the globe, wheresoever\\nThe spirit of Tammany flourishes, and ignoring\\nThe housemaid subscription for agitators political\\nWhose profession were gone should they get what they ask, and their incomes^\\n308", "height": "2806", "width": "2040", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "And rejecting pretences study it out from this basis,\\nThis question blood-soaked in anthropologic conditions.\\nYou see I intended that nothing be missed in this canto.\\nWell I know there are other and different Irish but shall we,\\nShall we smash our Empire to placate professional exiles\\nIn another hemisphere shall professional exiles\\nFrom guests become hosts, and of lords of the manor make satraps\\n361.\\nAs evidence of the thorough goodwill of my speeches\\nI propose the bronze stump of a giant pine of Kentucky\\nWith Lincoln in attitude ardent whooping the boys up;\\nNot the President worn with the duties and turmoil of conflict,\\nNot old Father Abraham too great to be lesser than martyr,\\nBut Abe youthful, uplifting the minds of the early backwoodsmen,\\nThe young sturdiness that expands into makers of history,\\nAnd that the statue be set in the Square of Belgravia,\\nIn our centre most aristocratic the mightiest of democrats.\\nNot for patronage, but for lesson of contrast and contact.\\nThus proving our proudest are proud of their kin with the plainfolk,\\nAnd that Hardin, Kentucky, may patronize Middlesex, England.\\nAnd here for young Abe on bronze stump I put two hundred guineas.\\n362:\\nWe are victims of fiction and friction from family circle\\nUp to conclave and cabinet, and how to get rid of them\\nSeems a task yet too large for the manifold caput of science\\nAs it is for the comedy-men of the press and the hippodrome.\\nBut my faith in the latter holds out to the end of my booklet.\\nI have only one claim that of being the bard of the waters,\\nOf the unifying force of the Empire of Neptune\\nWith all other empires there is nothing separative in it,\\nAnd I call a halt to all policies which deny it.\\n309", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "Methinks that I hear you methink in a rogative silence,\\nBut magna est Veritas, et prevalebit a little bit.\\n363-\\nAsia looms to the westward with millions eight hundred and over,\\nFrom five to eight thousand miles distant too near for safe looming.\\nEurope looms 10 the eastward with millions three hundred and somewhat.\\nThree thousand miles and six days away or a-near us.\\nGod arranged water and land, but this looming is dreadful.\\nCanada looms on the north with a people contented.\\nHaving all the traits indicating the fittest survival,\\nDetermined to be independent and free with old Britain,\\nWhile the southern hemisphere with some thirty-six millions,\\nA whole continent close aboard with assorted volcanoes,\\nLikewise loom, and will keep at it steadily while we let them;\\nTill our doctrine prevail o er the terrible doctrine of looming.\\nGod made the land and the seas and all that inhabit them,\\nBut his eye had gone clearly awry as to possible looming.\\n364-\\nI have been called a cosmopolite for this comedy\\nBy a foreign friend who is posed as great man by his country,\\nWho said I should be, as mere Briton, too narrow to write it.\\nHardly anything could be less concerned with my purpose.\\nMy vanity is not touched by the way my high tenor\\nHas been flinging notes what I seek is my country s attention\\nTo the points where it needs tO be called from a point universal,\\nThe principal one of which is that great nations and little\\nWould find loss and no gain from any decline of Great Britain;\\nAnd the next point is to insist till that fact be accepted.\\nYou may take all the other points in the order that suits you.\\nIf the execution could only be paired with the motive,\\nI were happier far than my prince of Manchuria and prouder.\\nAs it is I have wrought at my best, and the best does no better.\\n310", "height": "2801", "width": "2122", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "Live forever Pendragon my sovereign and permanent witness.\\nPoetic figure of fatherhood regal and real,\\nLegend-King of the system adapted to all new beneficence.\\nBy mere process of dropping old humbugs and hitting the rising\\nThe world in ten decades from this would be social or altru.\\nChrist or science would dominate, and political trumpets\\nLie burst on the patriot-graves of wind-lovers of nations.\\n365-\\nConstitutionism and religion are very high forces,\\nBut in the day of high strain the czar is the prophet,\\nI have noted, and premier and emperor, all in one person.\\nIn such instance the active principle is suspension.\\nThis applies to any republic or empire but Britain.\\nFor such strain we are unprepared while we ought to be ready.\\nBig forces ashore, and thereon easy mobilization,\\nAre matters wherein we are children still, and may pay for it\\nBy wreck in empire and in possibility of alliance.\\nGive us, then, so much absolutism as may not leave us victims.\\nSince Great Britain is at the point of being greater or negligible.\\nThe reason and fault of this are electoral, not military.\\nNations avoid the need of salvation by paying\\nLarge price, and much larger for finding it when they need it\\nLet him who doubts this ask opinion of Senator Edmunds\\nOr, since the Boer war began, that of Britishers numerous.\\nLiterary men make poor emperors look at Confucius\\nHis political descendants are the prey of all comers\\nAfter twenty-four centuries or more of golden rule doctrine.\\nAnd they turn the other cheek to the outside barbarians\\nAbroad as well as at home, for I saw it in the Americas.\\nIf Britons again permit a literary caste Ministry\\nThey will deserve to lose more than I care to tell them.\\n366.\\nAt this juncture I pray your deep thought to the dual convergence\\nOf manifest destiny to prevent what I warble of,\\n311", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "Should force or fraud or symposian politics dominate.\\nA second-rate power must accept what a first-rate allots it.\\nOr a first become second when many first-rates so apportion.\\nParenthesis perilous this let us keep out of peril\\nOurselves, and manoeuvre our ally out of parenthesis.\\nFriendship for one belligerent means war with the other\\nIf in act it appear: the law imposes neutrality,\\nBut friend leans to friend despite law we are waiting the sequel.\\nYou comprehend this parenthesis long and mysterious\\nIt applies to a late situation, or to any one similar.\\nYe who think of the Briton as chosen friend of the oceans,\\nAs the rounding race of surrounded world, or a rounder\\nIn others possessions, of merits all accidental\\nIn first instance, and upheld by bluff and luck later,\\nWhat should we gain, I demand, if we drop to be second-rate\\nTo placate the moral sense, so assumed, of some Ministry\\nOf literary gentry, and the pulpiteers of dissension,\\nOrators of higher law administered by competitors.\\nOr of the disruption the exiles shout up for a living?\\nWe should gain the commendation of every ambitious people\\nThat should keep on in the path we had left and stay first-rate;\\nAnd be praised for contracting ourselves to a Sundayschool island\\nAnd leaving the globe with one rival less to our betters.\\nFor which syndicates would apportion our product and tariff,\\nForeign-made for us to suit our new foreign relations.\\nAnd, so long as we remained good, guarantee our independence,\\nWarrant our freedom like that of Belgium or Portugal,\\nWarrant everything except our provisions, till half of our people\\nOr more should emigrate to avoid death by famine.\\nAdding the British force to some big foreign nation,\\nAll through Sundayschool policies, instead of maintaining ourselves,\\nAs hitherto-, first-class at home and invincible.\\nAm not inimical to polished minds touching state-issues\\nI admire them in chairs editorial, on benches oppositional.\\nLoving them well in their place, but not out of their places.\\nI am a rounder Britannic of rounded experiences,\\n312", "height": "2836", "width": "2071", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "Full of egoism here, and with no desire of suppressing it.\\nDisguise it as they may, or as we may permit them,\\nThis is the end, intentional or accidental,\\nOf our literary politicians and rather than see it established,\\nMay I participate in imperial cremation\\n367-\\nThere will be no dual convergence of manifest destiny.\\nWhen commercial trusts take the place of nobility feudal,\\nEverything that distinguished the reigns of King John and his forepops\\nMay be expected to riot in name of the people\\nUntil the people break loose and put end to the riot.\\nNot only no gratitude but not even recognizance\\nMay be looked for individuals skulk behind syndicates\\nTo shun what they could not hide and dare not face as units,\\nUrging aggregates and the state to ignore obligation.\\nBut I wish not to see Britain waste her politeness and morals.\\nTo rejoice and be exceeding glad in our friendship\\nOthers wait the chance, and we yet may do some ignoring.\\nGenius can be superseded by nothing but genius.\\nNot by chance nor mischance, but by genius, Great Britain is leader\\nIn language, liberty, law, navigation and empire\\nBut a pyrotechnic display of assumption and rivalry\\nWill estop the convergence. No prophet knows why he is prophet,\\nNor, if sincere, does he care nor, if wrong, is he worried\\nBy honest error of seerage, nor by political motive\\nOf what is best not to be said but an evil is better\\nProclaimed than feared disappointment thereby is anticipated\\nHypocrisy and affectation, too, are eliminated\\nAs international factors of contempt and humiliation.\\nPlanetary coalition only can plunder us.\\nI am not disappointed myself no, not even astonished.\\nThe fault is not ours at all, neither that of the exiles.\\nWhose ventometric gauge their associates have taken.\\n313", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "What is it I dare not anticipate the unfolding\\nBecause I prefer to avoid imputation of rashness\\nFor personal reasons, not out of fear of the public.\\nI have grandly whooped up the thing that should be, but that will not.\\nWhen all the world shall comprehend established democracy\\nAs for half a century I indivddually knew it,\\nThe logic irresistible of its possibilities\\nNone of which can be escaped by either its virtues or its wriggles,\\nOr by virtues mistaken for fears on the part of its allies.\\nEvery race will put every hope on some other system.\\n368.\\nPoet is what he is scientist may be nothing but claimant.\\nI have paid many guineas to science to have this opinion.\\nWhat gives vein and vogue to one genius and not to another?\\nIs it intuition and circumstantial perception\\nWhich a greater and better may lack by not seizing the moment\\nThis pamphlet is innocent of pretensions to science.\\nIn behalf of the millions who pray for some sound in their favor\\nSince syndicate usurped functions of commerce and government.\\nIt comprises a cry for another species of liberty,\\nNot an architectural plan for constructing the edifice\\nFor liberty from everything that restrains us\\nFrom the more bountiful life due to every Queen s subject,\\nMore bountiful in all moral and physical senses.\\nYet if man earn money and save it and own it and loan it\\nOn interest, who shall confiscate it and compel him\\nTo live down with those who sought loan by the fact of not owning.\\nThat all fellow-subjects may find in their living more bounty?\\nYou see, the poet is vague if he quicken conception\\nAnd call for a symmetrized scheme from the larger pretension\\nIf not higher skill of the scientist, his full duty\\nIs done as one rated the simple street-minstrel of sorrow.\\nNot prelate nor soldier, he lays down no canons, nor fires any.\\n314", "height": "2846", "width": "2031", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "369-\\nThou fortuitous unit of gods whom we call the Almighty,\\nWhether ancient or modern or future the same in thine essence,\\nPadishah of true seers, the strong few and the millions fainthearted,\\nAnd existent with only one scope when we leave it untrammeled.\\nThy temples are burdened with images false in conception.\\nThe ideal debris of the ignorance of all ages.\\nIn the cowardice graven that lives with the feeble and selfish.\\nWe pray for light and get figures of speech as the answer,\\nAdjuration, niches of statues, tableaux, mitres and counsel.\\nFounder of worlds and their beings and father of monarchs.\\nWe beseech thee for sense as the very first base of religion.\\nTrue conception prior to love of whatever we worship\\nFor the predisposition clear and severe unto study,\\nThe rich gift of that sense which fails not to reject superstition\\nHowsoever embellished by arts that impose on the simple,\\nWhich we deem we once had and thence strayed by an anstinct of error.\\nExorcise the crude self-conceit we miscall love of country.\\nMay we cease to look down on our brothers whose bunting is foreign.\\nCease to slay them for preference of other devices and colors\\nAnd of institutions expressed in their chosen insignia.\\nConvince us that childish misnames may not mitigate murder\\nThat filibustero is not thy precursor of missionary\\nThat the saws and the laws of the prophets are not diplomatic\\nThat treaties are kept by guns big in the bore and the number,\\nOr broken by cannon outfiring the guns which protect them\\nThat the patriot defending the unattacked patria is bogus.\\nAs well as a threat at inalienate rights of all peoples,\\nWorthy only the rock and the chain and the eagle of exile\\nThat the flag of salvation is one, whatsoever the nation.\\nAnd that comedy is divine when its ending is happy,\\nAlthough solemnly comical statesmen are finally tragic.\\nImpress us, O God with a new definition of thinking\\nWhich shall justify thy bestowal on man of the thought-gift,\\nOne from which there shall be no appeal, and against which rebellion\\n315", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "Shall push the rebelHous beyond the reclaim of the clement.\\nIrradiate us, thy sons, with the courage to smash them,\\nThose sculpturesque gems of short sight and fraud-faith and unwisdom,\\nThat we may adore thee anew through no idol-devotion\\nEND.\\n316", "height": "2811", "width": "2086", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "THE rESTIVAL OE NIBSYCUS.\\n(ADHIRT^L ESCLBCC.)\\nThe harp, the flute, the bassoon, the trombone.\\nOrgan, piano-forte, xylophone.\\nThe vioHn, guitar, octavison\\n(This last by Padovani, little known,\\nA violin with strings in number eight.\\nOf which four merely do reverberate,\\nWhereof the inventor came an age too late.\\nOr one too early which, I cannot state\\nI knew him well his hat was number eight\\nThose who wear eight are all too soon or late),\\nThe cello, the cornet but why go on?\\nCount in the horn of Roland Count Ronce Val\\nWhich Charlemagne heard an hundred leagues amain\\nFrom Gorge Ronceval or Fuentarabian Plain,\\nBy Roland blown the moment of being slain\\nBut Charles could not the summons heed again\\nOr count one like it for long-winded call\\nThe target-bummer s fife, all, till we come.\\nUp with the solemn, round and basso drum,\\nAnd the monotonous, snappy kettledrum.\\nAnd cymbals chromatized from wang to wum\\nAll these were in the orchestra, as well\\nAs those whose duty was to draw their swell\\nAnd by diminuendo let us down\\nTo that sweet point whereat we long for more.\\n317", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "II.\\nNibsycus was musician till the hour\\nWhen Richard Wagner struck with novel power\\nThe earth Columbian spreading o er it sound\\nWhich promptly chased all other from the ground\\nBy Verdi and some dozen others held\\nInvincibly till then whereon he turned\\nAn acolyte in train of the new chief\\nOf harmony, and thenceforth incense burned\\nTo him in temple of the fresh belief.\\nWith letters, too, his mind was proudly swelled\\nMilton, Pope, Dickens being the prior trio\\nWhereto he added Mackay with gran brio,\\nAnd Wagner as a tutelary dio.\\nYea, music was his fad and forte, I say.\\nAnd that he loved the loud symphonious lay\\nSometimes when it was loudest, and because\\nIts loudness passes music s proper laws.\\nBut, right or wrong therein, I do deplore\\nThis very off-night taste. Yet it is true\\nThat rum than music had much more to do\\nWith his last concert in his native town,\\nWhereof the fame to Saratog was blown.\\nA treat whose name you can t correctly call\\nMay take the euphemistic name of ball,\\nOr be enlarged perhaps to festival.\\nThis concert was a pretext for a spree.\\nAnd Nibsycus as friend invited me\\nAnd therefore with this tale of optic wile\\nAuricular, do I the world beguile.\\nHe bought out both the tavern and the store\\nOf fluid carbon to promote the fun\\nLikewise of victuals about half a ton.\\nFar into the interior of the land\\nHe from the City took this famous band\\n318", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "To sound his praises over hills and fens,\\nAnd in the ears of fellow-citizenSj\\nWhere he was born a landsman for the sea.\\nAs otherwise he never should have been.\\nHe also took a vivid serpent-screen\\nFrom India, where snakes most abound, I ween:\\nA screen so perfect that they seemed to squirm\\n^n vision least askew, to sight most firm.\\nBut when on it a calcium light was thrown\\nFor those who had been testing fluent rye,\\nIt was discussed, and not admired alone,\\nSo that the razzle-dazzle of the eye\\nAided the razzle-dazzle of the mind\\nUntil a mind well-poised was hard tO find,\\nEven if to seek that kind we were inclined,\\nWhere friends in freedom shared fluescent fun\\nAnd each guest strove that justice might be done.\\nIII.\\nBut other things than blood will tell in frolic.\\nAnd foremost of them all the alcoholic.\\nThe guests grew critical, or so believed,\\nWhereby a new distinction was achieved.\\nThey called for Wagner, and then Louder cried\\nWith vigor stentors dared not have defied.\\nThe leader glared then, gazing toward the sky\\nLike one who sees three moons, his bat he shied\\nBy accident upon the floor below.\\nIn swinging it he had wobbled to and fro.\\nTo pick it up, below he needs must go.\\nBut neither chief nor baton reappeared;\\nAnd then more fun on this mishap was reared.\\nThe orchestra thus left to its own way.\\nEach man began his neighbor s part to play.\\n319", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "Mine host was full of mirth, and so was I.\\nThen each to drown his next did vainly try\\nWhile my friend g-rimaced like a ruddy fiend,\\nAnd laughed like one whose laugh had lost its end.\\nIV.\\nThenceforth the orchestration took the form\\nOf Strauswaltz swollen into thunderstorm\\nOr earthquake set tO music, or cyclone\\nArranged as a sonata with the tone\\nPreserved of its own Caribbean Sea\\n(A hurricane twice happened there to me,\\nSo that I m certain of my simile).\\nIt was for this my friend had hired the hall\\nTo give the country-boys a treat that s all\\nAnd to the last detail arranged his ball,\\nEven as to when the gas should be put out\\nSuddenly, to provoke a giant shout\\nAnd then, that task performed by proper lout,\\nThe music ceased, and choric yell arose\\nThat out of window o er the county strayed.\\nSo ended this colossal serenade\\nOf fun-strung concert such the fun-struck close.\\nBut how we all got home, he tells who knows.\\nSaratoga, 13 July, 1886.\\nHASTA LUEGO.\\n32C", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2697", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "t^.\\nA\\nA.\\n0^ km\\n^oV\\nV\\n,0\\nv/\u00c2\u00bb i\\nr..\\n^^(C!^\\nV\\nvPC,-", "height": "2801", "width": "1945", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "b V\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a20 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2J x\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6t, o /x^^^ilL^. rt /^a^M^ i^^ *t\\no\\nbt\\n.0^\\nO^^^\\n-^s j -.IP/\\nA", "height": "2843", "width": "2070", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2953", "width": "2319", "jp2-path": "divinecomedyofpa00does_0332.jp2"}}