{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3808", "width": "2406", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS,\\nChap. Copyright No..\\nShelf .....:Ai.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3841", "width": "2391", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "^7-", "height": "3841", "width": "2391", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3927", "width": "2351", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3899", "width": "2275", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3925", "width": "2393", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3906", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3856", "width": "2401", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3778", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2fi s\\nf\\n36144\\nx^\\\\p\\nLibrary of Congress\\nTwo Copies Received\\nAUG 18 1900\\nCopyright entry\\nSECOND COPY.\\nDelivered to\\nORDER DIVISION,\\nAllft 25 1900\\nCopyright, 1900, by W. B. Conkey Company.\\n73599", "height": "3831", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nLECTURE I.\\nPAGE.\\nWork 29\\nLECTURE II.\\nTraffic 79\\nLECTURE III.\\nWar 121\\nLECTURE IV.\\nThe Future of England 175\\nAppendix 207", "height": "3765", "width": "2259", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3813", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nTwenty years ago there was no lovelier piece\\nof lowland scenery in South England, nor any\\nmore pathetic in the world, by its expression\\nof sweet human character and life, than that\\nimmediately bordering on the sources of the\\nWandle, and including the lower moors of\\nAddington, and the villages of Beddington\\nand Carshalton, with all their pools and\\nstreams. No clearer nor diviner waters ever\\nsang with constant lips of the hand which\\ngiveth rain from heaven no pastures ever\\nlightened in springtime with more passionate\\nblossoming; no sweeter homes ever hallowed\\nthe heart of the passer-by with their pride of\\npeaceful gladness fain-hidden yet full-con-\\nfessed. The place remains, or, until a few-\\nmonths ago, remained, nearly unchanged in\\nits larger features but, with deliberate mind\\nI say, that I have never seen anything so\\nghastly in its inner tragic meaning, not in\\nPisan Maremma, not by Campagna tomb,\\n5", "height": "3776", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6 PREFACE.\\nnot by the sand-isles of the Torcellan shore,\\nas the slow stealing of aspects, of reckless,\\nindolent, animal neglect, over the delicate\\nsweetness of that English scene: nor is any\\nblasphemy or impiety any frantic saying or\\ngodless thought more appalling to me, using\\nthe best power of judgment I have to discern\\nits sense and scope, than the insolent defilings\\nof those springs by the human herds that drink\\nof them. Just where the welling of stainless\\nwater, trembling and pure, like a body of\\nlight, enters the pool of Carshalton, cutting\\nitself a radiant channel down to the gravel,\\nthrough warp of feathery weeds, all waving,\\nwhich it traverses with its deep threads of\\nclearness, like the chalcedony in moss-agate,\\nstarred here and there with white grenouil-\\nlette; just in the very rush and murmur of\\nthe first spreading currents, the human\\nwretches of the place last their street and\\nhouse foulness heaps of dust and slime, and\\nbroken shreds of old metal, and rags of putrid\\nclothes; they having neither energy to cart it\\naway, nor decency enough to dig it into the\\nground, thus shed into the stream, to diffuse\\nwhat venom of it will float and melt, far away,\\nin all places where God meant those waters\\nto bring joy and health. And, in a little pool,", "height": "3833", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 7\\nbehind some houses farther in the village,\\nwhere another spring rises, the shattered\\nstones of the well, and of the little fretted\\nchannel which was long ago built and traced\\nfor it by gentler hands, lie scattered, each\\nfrom each, under a ragged bank of mortar, and\\nscoria, and bricklayers refuse, on one side,\\nwhich the clean water nevertheless chastises to\\npurity but it cannot conquer the dead earth\\nbeyond; and there, circled and coiled under\\nfestering scum, the stagnant edge of the pool\\neffaces itself into a slope of black slime, the\\naccumulation of indolent years. Half a dozen\\nmen, with one day s work, could cleanse those\\npools, and trim the flowers about their banks,\\nand make every breath of summer air above\\nthem rich with cool balm and every glittering\\nwave medicinal, as if it ran, troubled of angels,\\nfrom the porch of Bethesda. But that day s\\nwork is never given, nor will be nor will any\\njoy be possible to heart of man, forevermore,\\nabout those wells of English waters.\\nWhen I last left them, I walked up slowly\\nthrough the back streets of Croydon, from the\\nold church to the hospital and, just on the\\nleft, before coming up to the crossing of the\\nHigh Street, there was a new public-house built.\\nAnd the front of it was built in so wise man-", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8 PREFACE.\\nner, that a recess of two feet was left below its\\nfront windows, between them and the street\\npavement a recess too narrow for any possi-\\nble use (for even if it had been occupied by a\\nseat, as in old time it might have been, every-\\nbody walking along the street would have fal-\\nlen over the legs of the reposing wayfarers).\\nBut, by way of making this two feet depth of\\nfreehold land more expressive of the dignity of\\nan establishment for the sale of spirituous\\nliquors, it was fenced from the pavement by\\nan imposing iron railing, having four or five\\nspearheads to the yard of it, and six feet\\nhigh containing as much iron and iron- work,\\nindeed, as could well be put into the space\\nand by this stately arrangement, the little\\npiece of dead ground within, between wall and\\nstreet, became a protective receptacle of ref-\\nuse cigar ends, and oyster shells, and the like,\\nsuch as an open-handed English street popu-\\nlace habitually scatters from its presence, and\\nwas thus left, unsweepable by any ordinary\\nmethods. Now the iron bars which, uselessly\\n(or in great degree worse than uselessly), en-\\nclosed this bit of ground, and made it pestilent,\\nrepresented a quantity of work which would\\nhave cleansed the Carshalton pools three times\\nover of work, partly cramped and deadly, in", "height": "3853", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 9\\nthe mine; partly fierce* and exhaustive, at the\\nfurnace, partly foolish and sedentary, of ill-\\ntaught students making bad designs; work\\nfrom the beginning to the last fruits of it, and\\nin all the branches of it, venomous, deathful,\\nand miserable. Now how did it come to pass\\nthat this work was done instead of the other;\\nthat the strength and life of the English oper-\\native were spent in defiling ground, instead of\\nredeeming it and in producing an entirely (in\\nthat place) valueless piece of metal, which can\\nneither be eaten nor breathed, instead of me-\\ndicinal fresh air, and pure water?\\nA fearful occurrence took place a few days since,\\nnear Wolverhampton. Thomas Snape, aged nineteen,\\nwas on duty as the keeper of a blast furnace at Deep-\\nfield, assisted by John Gardner, aged eighteen, and\\nJoseph Swift, aged thirty-seven. The furnace contained\\ntour tons of molten iron, and an equal amount of cin-\\nders, and ought to have been run out at 7.30 p. m. But\\nSnape and his mates, engaged in talking and drinking,\\nneglected their duty, and, in the meantime, the iron\\nrose in the furnace until it reached a pipe wherein water\\nwas contained. Just as the men had stripped, and were\\nproceeding to tap the furnace, the water in the pipe,\\nconverted into steam, burst down its front and let loose\\non them the molten metal, which instantaneously con-\\nsumed Gardner; Snape, terribly burnt, and mad with\\npain, leaped into the canal and then ran home and fell\\ndead on the threshold Swift survived to reach the hos-\\npital, where he died, too.\\nIn further illustration of this matter, I beg the reader\\nto look at the article on the Decay of the English\\nRace, in the Pall Mall Gazette of April 17, of this year;\\nand at the articles on the Report of the Thames Com-\\nmission, in any journals of the same date.\\n2 Crown", "height": "3787", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10 PREFACE.\\nThere is but one reason for it, and at present\\na conclusive one, that the capitalist can\\ncharge percentage on the work in the one case,\\nand cannot in the other. If, having certain\\nfunds for supporting labor at my disposal, I pay\\nmen merely to keep my ground in order, my\\nmoney is, in that function, spent once for all;\\nbut if I pay them to dig iron out of my ground,\\nand work it, and sell it, I can charge rent for\\nthe ground, and percentage both on the man-\\nufacture and the sale, and make my capital\\nprofitable in these three byways. The greater\\npart of the profitable investment of capital in\\nthe present day, is in operations of this kind,\\nin which the public is persuaded to buy some-\\nthing of no use to it, on production, or sale, of\\nwhich, the capitalist may charge percentage;\\nthe said public remaining all the while under\\nthe persuasion that the percentage thus ob-\\ntained are real national gains, whereas, they\\nare merely filchings out of partially light pock-\\nets, to swell heavy ones.\\nThus, the Croydon publican buys the iron\\nrailing, to make himself more conspicuous to\\ndrunkards. The public-house keeper on the\\nother side of the way presently buys another\\nrailing, to out-rail him with. Both are, as to\\ntheir relative attractiveness to customers of", "height": "3833", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 11\\ntaste, just where they were before; but they\\nhave lost the price of the railings; which they\\nmust either themselves finally lose, or make\\ntheir aforesaid customers of taste pay, by rais-\\ning the price of their beer, or adulterating it\\nEither the publicans, or their customers, are\\nthus poorer by precisely what the capitalist\\nhas gained and the value of the work itself,\\nmeantime, has been lost, to the nation; the\\niron bars in that form and place being wholly\\nuseless. It is this mode of taxation of the poor\\nby the rich which is referred to in the\\ntext in comparing the modern acquisitive\\npower of capital with that of the lance and\\nsword the only difference being that the levy\\nof blackmail in old times was by force, and is\\nnow by cozening. The old rider and reiver\\nfrankly quartered himself on the publican for\\nthe night; the modern one merely makes his\\nlance into an iron spike, and persuades his host\\nto buy it. One comes as an open robber, the\\nother as a cheating pedler but the result, to\\nthe injured person s pocket, is absolutely the\\nsame. Of course, many useful industries min-\\ngle with, and disguise the useless ones; and in\\nthe habits of energy aroused by the struggle,\\nthere is a certain direct good. It is far better\\nto spend four thousand pounds in making a", "height": "3766", "width": "2270", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12 PREFACE.\\ngood gun, and then to blow it to pieces, than\\nto pass life in idleness. Only do not let it be\\ncalled political economy. There is also a\\nconfused notion in the minds of many persons,\\nthat the gathering of the property of the poor\\ninto the hands of the rich does no ultimate\\nharm since in whosesoever hands it may be,\\nit must be spent at last, and thus, they think,\\nreturn to the poor again. This fallacy has\\nbeen again and again exposed but grant the\\nplea true, and the same apology may, of course,\\nbe made for blackmail, or any other form of\\nrobbery. It might be (though practically it\\nnever is) as advantageous for the nation that\\nthe robber should have the spending of the\\nmoney he extorts, as that the person robbed\\nshould have spent it. But this is no excuse\\nfor the theft. If I were to put a turnpike on\\nthe road where it passes my own gate, and\\nendeavor to exact a shilling from every passen-\\nger, the public would soon do away with my\\ngate, without listening to any plea on my part\\nthat it was as advantageous to them, in the\\nend, that I should spend their shillings, as that\\nthey themselves should. But if, instead of\\nout-facing them with a turnpike, I can only\\npersuade them to come in and buy stones, or\\nold iron, or any other useless thing, out of my", "height": "3832", "width": "2280", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 13\\nground, I may rob them to the same extent,\\nand be, moreover, thanked as a public bene-\\nfactor, and promoter of commercial prosperity.\\nAnd this main question for the poor of Eng-\\nland for the poor of all countries is wholly\\nomitted in every common treatise on the sub-\\nject of wealth. Even by the laborers them-\\nselves, the operation of capital is regarded only\\nin its effect on their immediate interests never\\nin the far more terrific power of its appoint-\\nment of the kind and the object of labor. It\\nmatters little, ultimately, how much a laborer\\nis paid for making anything; but it matters\\nfearfully what the thing is, which he is com-\\npelled to make. If his labor is so ordered as\\nto produce food, and fresh air, and fresh water,\\nno matter that his wages are low, the food\\nand the fresh air and water will be at last\\nthere and he will at last get them. But if he\\nis paid to destroy food and fresh air or to pro-\\nduce iron bars instead of them, the food and\\nair will finally not be there, and he will not get\\nthem, to his great and final inconvenience. So\\nthat, conclusively, in political as in household\\neconomy, the great question is, not so much\\nwhat money you have in your pocket, as what\\nyou will buy with it, and do with it.\\nI have been long accustomed, as all men en-", "height": "3762", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 PREFACE.\\ngaged in work of investigation must be, to hear\\nmy statements laughed at for years, before\\nthey are examined or believed and I am gen-\\nerally content to wait the public s time. But it\\nhas not been without displeased surprise that I\\nhave found myself totally unable, as yet, by\\nany repetition, or illustration, to force this\\nplain thought into my readers* heads, that\\nthe wealth of nations, as of men, consists\\nin substance, not in ciphers; and that the real\\ngood of all work, and of all commerce, depends\\non the final worth of the thing you make, or\\nget by it. This is a practical enough state-\\nment, one would think, but the English public\\nhas been so possessed by its modern school of\\neconomists with the notion that Business is\\nalways good, whether it be busy in mischief or\\nm benefit, and that buying and selling are\\nalways salutary, whatever the intrinsic worth\\nof what you buy or sell, that it seems impos-\\nsible to gain so much as a patient hearing for\\nany inquiry respecting the substantial result\\nof our eager modern labors. I have never felt\\nmore checked by the sense of this impossibility\\nthan in arranging the heads of the following\\nthree lectures, which, though delivered at con-\\nsiderable intervals of time, and in different\\nplaces, were not prepared without reference to", "height": "3826", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 15\\neach other. Their connection would, how-\\never, have been made far more distinct, if I\\nhad not been prevented, by what I feel to be\\nanother great difficulty in addressing English\\naudiences, from enforcing, with any decision,\\nthe common, and to me the most important,\\npart of their subjects. I chiefly desired (as I\\nhave just said) to question my hearers oper-\\natives, merchants, and soldiers, as to the ulti-\\nmate meaning of the business they had in\\nhand and to know from them what they ex-\\npected or intended their manufacture to come\\nto, their selling to come to, and their killing to\\ncome to. That appeared the first point need-\\ning determination before I could speak to them\\nwith any real utility or effect. V You crafts-\\nmen salesmen swordsmen do but tell me\\nclearly what you want then if I can say any-\\nthing to help you, I will; and if not, I will\\naccount to you as I best may for my inability.\\nBut in order to put this question into any terms,\\none had first of all to face the difficulty just\\nspoken of to me for the present insuperable\\nthe difficulty of knowing whether to address\\none s audience as believing, or not believing,\\nin any other world than this. For if you ad-\\ndress any average modern English company as\\nbelieving in an Eternal life, and endeavor to", "height": "3787", "width": "2316", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16 PREFACE.\\ndraw any conclusions, from this assumed be-\\nlief, as to their present business, they will\\nforthwith tell you that what you say is very\\nbeautiful, but it is not practical. If, on the\\ncontrary, you frankly address them as unbe-\\nlievers of Eternal life, and try to draw any\\nconsequences from that unbelief they imme-\\ndiately hold you for an accursed person, and\\nshake off the dust from their feet at you. And\\nthe more I thought over what I had got to say,\\nthe less I found I could say it, without some\\nreference to this intangible or intractable part\\nof the subject. It made all the difference, in\\nasserting any principle of war, whether one\\nassumed that a discharge of artillery would\\nmerely knead down a certain quantity of red\\nclay into a level lie, as in a brickfield; or\\nwhether, out of every separately Christian-\\nnamed portion of the ruinous heap, there went\\nout, into the smoke and dead-fallen air of bat-\\ntle, some astonished condition of soul, unwil-\\nlingly released. It made all the difference, in\\nspeaking of the possible range of commerce,\\nwhether one assumed that all bargains related\\nonly to visible property or whether property,\\nfor the present invisible, but nevertheless real,\\nwas elsewhere purchasable on other terms. It\\nmade all the difference, in addressing a body", "height": "3859", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 17\\nof men subject to considerable hardship, and\\nhaving to find some way out of it whether\\none could confidently say to them, My friends\\nyou have only to die, and all will be right;\\nor whether one had any secret misgiving that\\nsuch advice was more blessed to him that\\ngave, than to him that took it. And therefore\\nthe deliberate reader will find, throughout\\nthese lectures, a hesitation in driving points\\nhome, and a pausing short of conclusions which\\nhe will feel I would fain have come to hesita-\\ntion which arises wholly from this uncertainty\\nof my hearers temper. For I do not now\\nspeak, nor have I ever spoken, since the time of\\nfirst forward youth, in any proselyting temper,\\nas desiring to persuade any one of what, in\\nsuch matters, I thought myself; but, whomso-\\never I venture to address, I take for the time\\nhis creed as I find it and endeavor to push it\\ninto such vital fruit as it seems capable of.\\nThus, it is a creed with a great part of the ex-\\nisting English people, that they are in posses-\\nsion of a book which tells them, straight from\\nthe lips of God, all they ought to do, and need\\nto know. I have read that book, with as much\\ncare as most of them, for some forty years;\\nand am thankful that, on those who trust it, I\\ncan press its pleadings. My endeavor has been\\n2", "height": "3780", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18 PREFACE.\\nuniformly to make them trust it more deeply\\nthan they do; trust it, not in their own favor-\\nite verses only, but in the sum of all trust it\\nnot as a fetish or talisman, which they are to\\nbe saved by daily repetitions of; but as a Cap-\\ntain s order, to be heard and obeyed at their\\nperil. I was always encouraged by supposing\\nmy hearers to hold such belief. To these, if to\\nany, I once had hope of addressing, with ac-\\nceptance, words which insisted on the guilt of\\npride, and the futility of avarice; from these,\\nif from any, I once expected ratification of a\\npolitical economy, which asserted that the life\\nwas more than the meat, and the body than\\nraiment; and these, it once seemed tome, I\\nmight ask, without accusation of fanaticism,\\nnot merely in doctrine of the lips, but in the\\nbestowal of their heart s treasure, to separate\\nthemselves from the crowd of whom it is writ-\\nten, M After all these things do the Gentiles\\nseek.\\nIt cannot however, be assumed, with any\\nsemblance of reason, that a general audience\\nis now wholly, or even in majority, composed\\nof these religious persons. A large portion\\nmust always consist of men who admit no such\\ncreed; or who, at least, are inaccessible to\\nappeals founded on it. And as, with the so-", "height": "3833", "width": "2395", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 19\\ncalled Christian, I desired to plead for honest\\ndeclaration and fulfilment of his belief in life,\\nwith the so-called infidel, I desired to plead\\nfor an honest declaration and fulfilment of his\\nbelief in death. The dilemma is inevitably.\\nMen must either hereafter live, or hereafter\\ndie; fate may be bravely met, and conduct\\nwisely ordered, on either expectation; but\\nnever in hesitation between ungrasped hope,\\nand unconfronted fear. We usually believe in\\nimmortality, so far as to avoid preparation for\\ndeath; and in mortality, so far as tQ avoid\\npreparation for anything after death. Where-\\nas, a wise man will at least hold himself pre-\\npared for one or other of two events, of which\\none or other is inevitable and will have all\\nthings in order, for his sleep, or in readiness,\\nfor his awakening.\\nNor have we any right to call it an ignoble\\njudgment, if he determine to put them in\\norder, as for sleep. A brave belief in life is\\nindeed an enviable state of mind, but, as far\\nas I can discern, an unusual one. I know few\\nChristians so convinced of the splendor of the\\nrooms in their Father s house, as to be happier\\nwhen their friends are called to those man-\\nsions, than they would have been if the Queen\\nhad sent for them to live at court; nor has the", "height": "3774", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 PREFACE.\\nChurch s most ardent desire to depart, and be\\nwith Christ, ever cured it of the singular\\nhabit of putting on mourning for every person\\nsummoned to such departure. On the con-\\ntrary, a brave belief in death has been assur-\\nedly held by many not ignoble persons, and it\\nis a sign of the last depravity in the Church\\nitself, when it assumes that such a belief is in-\\nconsistent with either purity of character, or\\nenergy of hand. The shortness of life is not,\\nto any rational person, a conclusive reason for\\nwasting the space of it which may be granted\\nhim nor does the anticipation of death to-mor-\\nrow suggest, to any one but a drunkard, the\\nexpediency of drunkenness to-day. To teach\\nthat there is no device in the grave, may in-\\ndeed make the deviceless person more con-\\ntented in his dulness; but it will make the de-\\nviser only more earnest in devising nor is hu-\\nman conduct likely, in every case, to be purer,\\nunder the conviction that all its evil may in a\\nmoment be pardoned, and all its wrong-doing\\nin a moment redeemed and that the sigh of\\nrepentance, which purges the guilt of the past,\\nwill waft the soul into a felicity which forgets\\nits pain, than it may be under the sterner,\\nand to many not unwise minds, more probable,\\napprehension, that what a man soweth that", "height": "3848", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 21\\nshall he also reap, or others reap, when\\nhe, the living seed of pestilence, walketh no\\nmore in darkness, but lies down therein.\\nBut to men whose feebleness of sight, or bit-\\nterness of soul, or the offence given by the con-\\nduct of those who claim higher hope, may have\\nrendered this painful creed the only possible\\none, there is an appeal to be made, more secure\\nin its ground than any which can be addressed\\nto happier persons. I would fain, if I might\\noff encelessly, have spoken to them as if none\\nothers heard; and have said thus: Hear me,\\nyou dying men, who will soon be deaf forever.\\nFor these others, at your right hand and your\\nleft, who look forward to a state of infant exist-\\nence, in which all their errors will be overruled,\\nand all their faults forgiven for these, who,\\nstained and blackened in the battle-smoke of\\nmortality, have but to dip themselves for an\\ninstant in the font of death, and to rise re-\\nnewed of plumage, as a dove that is covered\\nwith silver, and her feathers like gold; for\\nthese, indeed, it may be permissible to waste\\ntheir numbered moments, through faith in a\\nfuture of innumerable hours to these, in their\\nweakness, it may be conceded that they should\\ntamper with sin which can only bring forth\\nfruit of righteousness, and profit by the iniq-", "height": "3759", "width": "2290", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 PREFACE.\\nuity which, one day, will be remembered no\\nmore. In them, it may be no sign of hardness\\nof heart to neglect the poor, over whom they\\nknow their Master is watching; and to leave\\nthose to perish temporarily, who cannot perish\\neternally. But, for you, there is no such hope,\\nand, therefore, no such excuse. This fate\\nwhich you ordain for the wretched, you believe\\nto be all their inheritance you may crush\\nthem, before the moth, and they will never\\nrise to rebuke you; their breath, which fails\\nfor lack of food, once expiring, will never be\\nrecalled to whisper against you a word of ac-\\ncusing; they and you, as you think, shall lie\\ndown together in the dust, and the worms\\ncover you; and for them there shall be no\\nconsolation, and on you no vengeance, only\\nthe question murmured above your grave:\\nWho shall repay him what he hath done?\\nIs it, therefore, easier for you in your heart to\\ninflict the sorrow for which there is no remedy\\nWill you take, wantonly, this little all of his\\nlife from your poor brother, and make his brief\\nhours long to him with pain? Will you be\\nreadier to the injustice which can never be\\nredressed and niggardly of mercy which you\\ncan bestow but once, and which, refusing, you\\nrefuse forever? I think better of you, even of", "height": "3827", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 23\\nthe most selfish, than that you would do this,\\nwell understood. And for yourselves, it seems\\nto me, the question becomes not less grave, in\\nthese curt limits. If your life were but a fever\\nfit, the madness of a night, whose follies were\\nall to be forgotten in the dawn, it might matter\\nlittle how you fretted away the sickly hours,\\nwhat toys you snatched at, or let fall, what\\nvisions you followed wistfully with the de-\\nceived eyes of sleepless phrenzy. Is the earth\\nonly an hospital? Play, if you care to play, on\\nthe floor of the hospital dens. Knit its straw\\ninto what crowns please you gather the dust\\nof it for treasure, and die rich in that, clutch-\\ning at the black motes in the air with your\\ndying hands; and yet, it may be well with\\nyou. But if this life be no dream, and the\\nworld no hospital if all the peace and power\\nand joy you can ever win, must be won now,\\nand all fruit of victory gathered here, or never;\\nwill you still, throughout the puny totality\\nof your life, weary yourselves in the fire for\\nvanity? If there is no rest which remaineth\\nfor you, is there none you might presently\\ntake? was this grass of the earth made green\\nfor your shroud only, not for your bed? and can\\nyou never lie down upon it, but only under it?\\nThe heathen, to whose creed you have re-", "height": "3787", "width": "2293", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 PREFACE.\\nturned, thought not so. They knew that life\\nbrought its contest, but they expected from it\\nalso the crown of all contest No proud one\\nno jeweled circlet flaming through Heaven\\nabove the height of the unmerited throne;\\nonly some few leaves of wild olive, cool to the\\ntired brow, through a few years of peace. It\\nshould have been of gold, they thought but\\nJupiter was poor; this was the best the god\\ncould give them. Seeking a greater than this,\\nthey had known it a mockery. Not in war, not\\nin wealth, not in tyranny, was there any hap-\\npiness to be found for them only in kindly\\npeace, fruitful and free. The wreath was to\\nbe of wild olive, mark you; the tree that\\ngrows carelessly, tufting the rocks with no\\nvivid bloom, no verdure of branch only with\\nsoft snow of blossom, and scarcely fulfilled\\nfruit, mixed with gray leaf and thorn-set stem\\nno fastening of diadem for you but with such\\nsharp embroidery! But this, such as it is, you\\nmay win while yet you live; type of great\\nhonor and sweet rest. Free-heartedness, and\\ngraciousness, and undisturbed trust, and re-\\nquited love, and the sight of the peace of\\nothers, and the ministry to their pain these,\\nand the blue sky above you, and the sweet\\nwaters and flowers of the earth beneath and", "height": "3853", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "PREFACE. 25\\nmysteries and presences, innumerable, of liv-\\ning things, these may yet be here your\\nriches; tmtormenting and divine; serviceable\\nfor the life that now is nor, it may be, with-\\nout promise of that which is to come.", "height": "3776", "width": "2294", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3814", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "LECTURE I.\\nWORK.\\n27", "height": "3778", "width": "2239", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3811", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nLECTURE I.\\nWORK.\\n(Delivered before the Working Men s Institute, at\\nCamberwell.)\\nMy Friends, I have not come among you\\nto-night to endeavor to give you an entertain-\\ning lecture; but to tell you a few plain facts,\\nand ask you some plain, but necessary ques-\\ntions. I have seen and known too much of the\\nstruggle for life among our laboring popula-\\ntion, to feel at ease, even under any circum-\\nstances, in inviting them to dwell on the trivi-\\nalities of my own studies, but, much more, as\\nI meet to-night, for the first time, the mem-\\nbers of a working Institute established in the\\ndistrict in which I have passed the greater part\\nof my life, I am desirous that we should at\\nonce understand each other, on graver matters.\\nI would fain tell you, with what feelings,\\nand with what hope, I regard this Institution,\\nas one of many such, now happily established\\n29", "height": "3768", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE,\\nthroughout England, as well as in other\\ncountries, Institutions which are preparing\\nthe way for a great change in all the circum-\\nstances of industrial life but of which the suc-\\ncess must wholly depend upon our clearly\\nunderstanding the circumstances and neces-\\nsary limits of this change. No teacher can\\ntruty promote the cause of education, until\\nhe knows the conditions of the life for which\\nthat education is to prepare his pupil. And\\nthe fact that he is called upon to address you,\\nnominally, as a Working Class, must com-\\npel him, if he is in any wise earnest or thought-\\nful, to inquire in the outset, on what you\\nyourselves suppose this class distinction has\\nbeen founded in the past, and must be founded\\nin the future. The manner of the amuse-\\nment, and the matter of the teaching, which\\nany of us can offer you, must depend wholly\\non our first understanding from you, whether\\nyou think the distinction heretofore drawn\\nbetween working men and others, is truly or\\nfalsely founded. Do you accept it as it stands?\\ndo you wish it to be modified? or do you think\\nthe object of education is to efface it, and\\nmake us forget it forever?\\nLet me make myself more distinctly under-\\nstood. We call this you and I a Working", "height": "3823", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 31\\nMen s Institute, and our college in London,\\na Working Men s College. Now, how do\\nyou consider that these several institutes differ,\\nor ought to differ, from idle men s institutes\\nand idle men s colleges? Or by what other\\nword than idle shall I distinguish those\\nwhom the happiest and wisest of working men\\ndo not object to call the Upper Classes\\nAre there really upper classes, are there\\nlower? How much should they always be\\nelevated, how much always depressed? And,\\ngentlemen and ladies I pray those of you who\\nare here to forgive me the offence there may\\nbe in what I am going to say. It is not I who\\nwish to say it. Bitter voices say it: voices of\\nbattle and of famine through all the world,\\nwhich must be heard some day, whoever keeps\\nsilence. Neither is it to you specially that I\\nsay it. I am sure that most now present know\\ntheir duties of kindness, and fulfil them, better\\nperhaps than I do mine. But I speak to you\\nas representing your whole class, which errs,\\nI know, chiefly by thoughtlessness, but not\\ntherefore the less terribly. Wilful error is\\nlimited by the will, but what limit it there to\\nthat of which we are unconscious?\\nBear with me, therefore, while I turn to\\nthese workmen, and ask them, also, as repre-", "height": "3769", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "32 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nsenting a great multitude, what they think the\\nupper classes are, and ought to be, in rela-\\ntion to them. Answer, you workmen who are\\nhere, as you would among yourselves, frankly\\nand tell me how you would have me call those\\nclasses. Am I to call them would you think\\nme right in calling them the idle classes? I\\nthink you would feel somewhat uneasy, and\\nas if I were not treating my subject honestly,\\nor speaking from my heart, if I went on under\\nthe supposition that all rich people were idle.\\nYou would be both unjust and unwise if you\\nallowed me to say that; not less unjust than\\nthe rich people who say that all the poor are\\nidle, and will never work if they can help it,\\nor more than they can help it.\\nFor indeed the fact is, that there are idle\\npoor and idle rich and there are busy poor\\nand busy rich. Many a beggar is as lazy as if\\nhe had ten thousand a year; and many a man\\nof large fortune is busier than his errand-boy,\\nand never would think of stopping in the street\\nto play marbles. So that, in a large view, the\\ndistinction between workers and idlers, as\\nbetween knaves and honest men, runs through\\nthe very heart and innermost economies of\\nmen of all ranks and in all positions. There\\nis a working class strong and happy among", "height": "3858", "width": "2428", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 33\\nboth rich and poor; there is an idle class\\nweak, wicked, and miserable among both rich\\nand poor. And the worst of the misunder-\\nstandings arising between the two orders come\\nof the unlucky fact that the wise of one class\\nhabitually contemplate the foolish of the other.\\nIf the busy rich people watched and rebuked\\nthe idle rich people, all would be right and if\\nthe busy poor people watched and rebuked\\nthe idle poor people, all would be right. But\\neach class has a tendency to look for the\\nfaults of the other. A hard-working man of\\nproperty is particularly offended by an idle\\nbeggar, and an orderly, but poor, workman\\nis naturally intolerant of the licentious luxury\\nof the rich. And what is severe judgment in\\nthe minds of the just men of either class, be-\\ncomes fierce enmity in the unjust but among\\nthe unjust only. None but the dissolute\\namong the poor look upon the rich as their\\nnatural enemies, or desire to pillage their\\nhouse and divide their property. None but\\nthe dissolute among the rich speak in oppro-\\nbrious terms of the vices and follies of the\\npoor.\\nThere is, then, no class distinction between\\nidle and industrious people and I am going\\nto-night to speak only of the industrious. The\\n3 Crovvn", "height": "3786", "width": "2284", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 THE CROWx\\\\ T OF WILD OLIVE.\\nidle people we will put out of our thoughts at\\nonce they are mere nuisances what ought to\\nbe done with them, we ll talk of at another\\ntime. But there are class distinctions among\\nthe industrious themselves; tremendous dis-\\ntinctions, which rise and fall to every degree\\nin the infinite thermometer of human pain and\\nof human power distinctions of high and low,\\nof lost and won, to the whole reach of man s\\nsoul and body.\\nThese separations we will study, and the\\nlaws of them, among energetic men only, who,\\nwhether they work or whether they play, put\\ntheir strength into the work, and their\\nstrength into the game; being in the full sense\\nof the word industrious/ one way or another\\nwith a purpose, or without. And these dis-\\ntinctions are mainly four\\nI. Between those who work, and those who\\nplay.\\nII. Between those who produce the means\\nof life, and those who consume them.\\nIII. Between those who work with the head,\\nand those who work with the hand.\\nIV. Between those who work wisely, and\\nwho work foolishly.\\nFor easier memory, let us say we are going\\nto oppose, in our examination,", "height": "3849", "width": "2432", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 35\\nI. Work to play\\nII. Production to consumption\\nIII. Head to hand and,\\nIV. Sense to nonsense.\\nI. First, then, of the distinction between\\nthe classes who work and the classes who play.\\nOf course we must agree upon a definition of\\nthese terms, work and play, before going\\nfarther. Now, roughly, not with vain subtlety\\nof definition, but for plain use of the words,\\nplay is an exertion of body or mind, made\\nto please ourselves, and with no determined\\nend and work is a thing done because it ought\\nto be done, and with a determined end. You\\nplay, as you call it, at cricket, for instance.\\nThat is as hard work as anything else; but it\\namuses you, and it has no result but the\\namusement. If it were done as an ordered\\nform of exercise, for health s sake, it would\\nbecome work directly. So, in like manner,\\nwhatever we do to please ourselves, and only\\nfor the sake of the pleasure, not for an ulti-\\nmate object, is play, the pleasing thing,\\nnot the useful thing. Play may be useful in\\na secondary sense (nothing is indeed more\\nuseful or necessary) but the use of it depends\\non its being spontaneous.\\nLet us, then, inquire together what sort of", "height": "3773", "width": "2267", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "95 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ngames the playing class in England spend\\ntheir lives in playing at.\\nThe first of all English games is making\\nmoney. That is an all-absorbing game and\\nwe knock each other down oftener in playing\\nat that than at foot-ball, or any other roughest\\nsport; and it is absolutely without purpose;\\nno one who engages heartily in that game ever\\ninows why. Ask a great money-maker what\\nhe wants to do with his money he never\\nknows. He doesn t make it to do anything\\nwith it. He gets it only that he may get it.\\n45 What will you make of what you have got?\\nyou ask. Well, I ll get more, he says. Just\\nas, at cricket, you get more runs. There s no\\nuse in the runs, but to get more of them than\\nother people is the game. And there s no use\\nin the money, but to have more of it than\\nother people is the game. So all that great\\nfoul city of London there, rattling, growling,\\nsmoking, stinking, a ghastly heap of ferment-\\ning brickwork, pouring out poison at every\\npore, you fancy it is a city of work? Not a\\nstreet of it! It is a great city of play; very\\nnasty play, and very hard play, but still play.\\nIt is only Lord s cricket ground without the\\nturf, a huge billiard table without the cloth,", "height": "3848", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 37\\nand with pockets as deep as the bottomless\\npit but mainly a billiard table, after all.\\nWell, the first great English game is this\\nplaying at counters. It differs from the rest\\nin that it appears always to be producing\\nmoney, while every other game is expensive.\\nBut it does not always produce money. There s\\na great difference between 44 winning* money\\nand making it a great difference between\\ngetting it out of another man s pocket into\\nours, or filling both. Collecting money is by\\nno means the same thing as making it; the\\ntax-gatherer s house is not the Mint: and\\nmuch of the apparent gain (so called), in com-\\nmerce, is only a form of taxation on carriage\\nor exchange.\\nOur next great English game, however,\\nhunting and shooting, is costly altogether and\\nhow much we are fined for it annually in land,\\nhorses, gamekeepers, and game laws, and all\\nelse that accompanies that beautiful and special\\nEnglish game, I will not endeavor to count\\nnow but note only that, except for exercise,\\nthis is not merely a useless game, but a deadly\\none, to all connected with it. For through\\nhorse-racing, you get every form of what the\\nhigher classes everywhere call Play, in dis-\\ntinction from all other plays; that is gam-", "height": "3781", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "38 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nbling; by no means a beneficial or recreative\\ngame and, through game-preserving, you get\\nalso some curious laying out of ground; that\\nbeautiful arrangement of dwelling-house for\\nman and beast, by which we have grouse and\\nblackcock so many brace to the acre, and\\nmen and women so many brace to the garret.\\nI often wonder what the angelic builders and\\nsurveyors the angelic builders who build the\\nmany mansions up above there; and the\\nangelic surveyors, who measured that four-\\nsquare city with their measuring reeds I\\nwonder what they think, or are supposed to\\nthink, of the laying out of ground by this\\nnation, which has set itself, as it seems,\\nliterally to accomplish, word for word, or rather\\nfact for word, in the persons of those poor\\nwhom its Master left to represent him, what\\nthat Master said of himself that foxes and\\nbirds had homes, but He none.\\nThen, next to the gentleman s game of\\nhunting, we must put the ladies game of\\ndressing. It is not the cheapest of games. I\\nsaw a brooch at a jeweler s in Bond Street a\\nfortnight ago, not an inch wide, and without\\nany singular jewel in it, yet worth 3,000/.\\nAnd I wish I could tell you what this play\\ncosts, altogether, in England, France, and", "height": "3819", "width": "2399", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 39\\nRussia annually. But it is a pretty game, and\\non certain terms, I like it; nay, I don t see it\\nplayed quite as much as I would fain have it.\\nYou ladies like to lead the fashion: by all\\nmeans lead it lead it thoroughly, lead it far\\nenough. Dress yourselves nicely, and dress\\neverybody else nicely. Lead the fashions for\\nthe poor first make them look well, and you\\nyourselves will look, in ways of which you\\nhave now no conception, all the better. The\\nfashions you have set for some time among\\nyour peasantry are not pretty ones; their\\ndoublets are too irregularly slashed, and the\\nwind blows too frankly through them.\\nThen there are other games, wild enough,\\nas I could show you if I had time.\\nThere s playing at literature, and playing at\\nart very different both, from working at lit-\\nerature, or working at art, but I ve no time to\\nspeak of these. I pass to the greatest of all\\nthe play of plays, the great gentleman s game,\\nwhich ladies like them best to play at, the\\ngame of War. It is entrancingly pleasant to\\nthe imagination; the facts of it, not always so\\npleasant. We dress for it, however, more\\nfinely than for any other sport and go out to\\nit, not merely in scarlet, as to hunt, but in\\nscarlet and gold, and all manner of fine colors:", "height": "3781", "width": "2296", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nof course we could fight better in gray, and\\nwithout feathers; but all nations have agreed\\nthat it is good to be well dressed at this play.\\nThen the bats and balls are very costly; our\\nEnglish and French bats, with the balls and\\nwickets, even those which we don t make any\\nuse of, costing, I suppose, now about fifteen\\nmillions of money annually to each nation all\\nof which you know is paid for by hard labor-\\ner s work in the furrow and furnace. A costly\\ngame not to speak of its consequences; I will\\nsay at present nothing of these. The mere\\nimmediate cost of all these plays is what I\\nwant you to consider; they all cost deadly\\nwork somewhere, as many of us know too\\nwell. The jewel-cutter, whose sight fails over\\nthe diamonds the weaver whose arm fails over\\nthe web the iron-forger, whose breath fails\\nbefore the furnace\u00e2\u0080\u0094 they know what work is\\nthey, who have all the work, and none of the\\nplay, except a kind they have named for them-\\nselves down in the black north country, where\\nplay means being laid up by sickness. It is\\na pretty example for philologists, of varying\\ndialect, this change in the sense of the word\\nplay, as used in the black country of Bir-\\nmingham, and the red and black country of\\nBaden Baden. Yes, gentlemen, and gentle-", "height": "3848", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 41\\nwomen, of England, who think one moment\\nunamused a misery, not made for feeble man,\\nthis is what you have brought the word\\nplay to mean, in the heart of merry Eng-\\nland! You may have your fluting and piping;\\nbut there are sad children sitting in the mar-\\nket-place, who indeed cannot say to you, We\\nhave piped unto you, and ye have not danced:\\nbut eternally shall say to you, We have\\nmourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.\\nThis, then, is the first distinction between\\nthe upper and lower classes. And this is\\none which is by no means necessary; which\\nindeed must, in process of good time, be by\\nall honest men s consent abolished. Men will\\nbe taught that an existence of play, sustained\\nby the blood of other creatures, is a good ex-\\nistence for gnats and sucking fish; but not for\\nmen that neither days, nor lives, can be made\\nholy by doing nothing in them that the best\\nprayer at the beginning of a day is that we\\nmay not lose its moments; and the best grace\\nbefore meat, the consciousness that we have\\njustly earned our dinner. And when we have\\nthis much of plain Christianity preached to us\\nagain, and enough respect what we regard as\\ninspiration, as not to think that Son, go work\\nto-day in my vineyard, means Fool, go play\\ni Crown", "height": "3766", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nto-day in my vineyard, we shall all be work-\\ners, in one way or another; and this much at\\nleast of the distinction between 4t tipper and\\n44 lower forgotten.\\nII. I pass then to our second distinction\\nbetween the rich and poor, between Dives and\\nLazarus, distinctions which exist more\\nsternly, I suppose, in this day, than ever in the\\nworld, Pagan or Christian, till now. I will put\\nit sharply before you, to begin with, merely\\nby reading two paragraphs which I cut from\\ntwo papers that lay on my breakfast table on\\nthe same morning, the 25th of November, 1864.\\nThe piece about the rich Russian at Paris is\\ncommonplace enough, and stupid besides (for\\nfifteen francs, 12s. 6d. y is nothing for a rich\\nman to give for a couple of peaches, out of\\nseason). Still, the two paragraphs printed on\\nthe same day are worth putting side by side.\\n44 Such a man is now here. He is a Russian,\\nand, with your permission, we will call him\\nCount Teufelskine. In dress he is sublime; art\\nis considered in that toilet, the harmony of\\ncolor respected, the chiar oscuro evident in\\nwell-selected contrast. In manners he is dig-\\nnified nay, perhaps apathetic; nothing dis-\\nturbs the placid serenity of that calm exterior.\\nOne day our friend breakfasted chez Bignon.", "height": "3826", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 43\\nWhen the bill came he read, Two peaches,\\n15L He paid. Peaches scarce, I presume?\\nwas his sole remark. No, sir, replied the\\nwaiter, but Teufelskines are. Telegraph,\\nNovember 15, 1864.\\nYesterday morning, at eight o clock, a\\nwoman, passing a dung heap in the stone yard\\nnear the recently-erected almshouses in Shad-\\nwell Gap, High Street, Shadwell, called the\\nattention of a Thames police-constable to a\\nman in a sitting position on the dung heap,\\nand said she was afraid he was dead. Her\\nfears proved to be true. The wretched creat-\\nure appeared to have been dead several hours.\\nHe had perished of cold and wet, and the rain\\nhad been beating down on him all night. The\\ndeceased was a bone-picker. He was in the\\nlowest stage of poverty, poorly clad, and half-\\nstarved. The police had frequently driven\\nhim away from the stone yard, between sunset\\nand sunrise, and told him to go home. He\\nselected a most desolate spot for his wretched\\ndeath. A penny and some bones were found\\nin his pockets. The deceased was between\\nfifty and sixty years of age. Inspector Rob-\\nerts, of the K division, has given directions for\\ninquiries to be made at the lodging-houses\\nrespecting the deceased, to ascertain his", "height": "3769", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "U THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nidentity if possible. Morning Post, Novem-\\nber 25, 1864.\\nYou have the separation thus in brief com-\\npass; and I want you to take notice of the a\\npenny and some bones were found in his\\npockets, and to compare it with this third\\nstatement, from the Telegraph of January 16th\\nof this year:\\n4 Again, the dietary scale for adult and juve-\\nnile paupers was drawn up by the most con-\\nspicuous political economists in England. It\\nis low in quantity, but it is sufficient to support\\nnature; yet within ten years of the passing of\\nthe Poor Law Act, we heard of the paupers in\\nthe Andover Union gnawing the scraps of pu-\\ntrid flesh and sucking the marrow from the\\nbones of horses which they were employed to\\ncrush.\\nYou see my reason for thinking that our\\nLazarus of Christianity has some advantage\\nover the Jewish one. Jewish Lazarus ex-\\npected, or at least prayed, to be fed with\\ncrumbs from the rich man s table; but our\\nLazarus is fed with crumbs from the dog s\\ntable.\\nNow this distinction between rich and poor\\nrests on two bases. Within its proper limits,\\non a basis which is lawful and everlastingly", "height": "3858", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 45\\nnecessary beyond them, on a basis unlawful,\\nand everlastingly corrupting the frame-work\\nof society. The lawful basis of wealth is,\\nthat a man who works should be paid the fair\\nvalue of his work and if he does not choose\\nto spend it to-day, he should have free leave\\nto keep it, and spend it to-morrow. Thus, an\\nindustrious man working daily, and laying by\\ndaily, attains at last the possession of an accu-\\nmulated sum of wealth, to which he has abso-\\nlute right. The idle person who will not work\\nand the wasteful person who lays nothing by,\\nat the end of the same time will be doubly\\npoor poor in possession, and dissolute in\\nmoral habit and he will then naturally covet\\nthe money which the other has saved. And if\\nhe is then allowed to attack the other, and rob\\nhim of his well-earned wealth, there is no\\nmore any motive for saving, or any reward for\\ngood conduct and all society is thereupon dis-\\nsolved, or exists only in systems of rapine.\\nTherefore the first necessity of social life is\\nthe clearness of national conscience in enforc-\\ning the law that he should keep who has\\njustly earned.\\nThat law, I say, is the proper basis of dis-\\ntinction between rich and poor. But there is\\nalso a false basis of distinction namely, the", "height": "3777", "width": "2299", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\npower held over those who earn wealth by\\nthose who levy or exact it. There will be\\nalways a number of men who would fain set\\nthemselves to the accumulation of wealth as\\nthe sole object of their lives. Necessarily,\\nthat class of men is an uneducated class, in-\\nferior in intellect, and more or less cowardly.\\nIt is physically impossible for a well-edu-\\ncated, intellectual, or brave man to make\\nmoney the chief object of his thoughts; as\\nphysically impossible as it is for him to make\\nhis dinner the principal object of them. All\\nhealthy people like their dinners, but their\\ndinner is not the main object of their lives.\\nSo all healthy minded people like making\\nmoney ought to like it, and to enjoy the sen-\\nsation of winning it but the main object of\\ntheir life is not money; it is something better\\nthan money. A good soldier, for instance,\\nmainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is\\nglad of his pay very properly so, and justly\\ngrumbles when you keep him ten years with-\\nout it still, his main notion of life is to win\\nbattles, not to be paid for winning them. So\\nof clergymen. They like pew-rents, and bap-\\ntismal fees, of course; but yet, if they are\\nbrave and well educated, the pew-rent is not\\nthe sole object of their lives, and the baptismal", "height": "3830", "width": "2376", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 47\\nfee is not the sole purpose of the baptism the\\nclergyman s object is essentially to baptize and\\npreach, not to be paid for preaching. So of\\ndoctors. They like fees no doubt, ought to\\nlike them; yet if they are brave and well\\neducated, the entire object of their lives is not\\nfees. They, on the whole, desire to cure the\\nsick; and, if they are good doctors, and\\nthe choice were fairly put to them,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 would\\nrather cure their patient, and lose their fee,\\nthan kill him, and get it. And so with all\\nother brave and rightly trained men; their\\nwork is first, their fee second very important\\nalways, but still second. But in every nation,\\nas I said, there are a vast class who are ill-\\neducated, cowardly, and more or less stupid.\\nAnd with these people, just as certainly the\\nfee is first, and the work second, as with brave\\npeople the work is first and the fee second.\\nAnd this is no small distinction. It is the\\nwhole distinction in man distinction between\\nlife and death in him, between heaven and\\nhell for him. You cannot serve two masters;\\nyou must serve one or other. If your work\\nis first with you, and your fee second, work is\\nyour master, and the lord of work, who is\\nGod. But if your fee is first with you, and\\nyour work second, fee is your master, and the", "height": "3786", "width": "2309", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nlord of fee, who is the Devil; and not only\\nthe Devil, but the lowest of devils\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the 4 least\\nerected fiend that fell. So there you have\\nit in the briefest terms Work first you are\\nGod s servants; Fee first you are the\\nFiend s. And it makes a difference, now and\\never, believe me, whether you serve Him who\\nhas on His vesture and thigh written, King\\nof Kings, and whose service is perfect free-\\ndom or him on whose vesture and thigh the\\nname is written, Slave of Slaves, and whose\\nservice is perfect slavery.\\nHowever, in every nation there are, and\\nmust always be a certain number of these\\nFiend s servants, who have it principally for\\nthe object of their lives to make money. They\\nare always, as I said, more or less stupid, and\\ncannot conceive of anything else so nice as\\nmoney. Stupidity is always the basis of the\\nJudas bargain. We do great injustice to Iscar-\\niot, in thinking him wicked above all common\\nwickedness. He was only a common money-\\nlover, and, like all money-lovers, didn t under-\\nstand Christ; couldn t make out the worth of\\nHim, or meaning of Him. He was horror-\\nstruck when he found that Christ would be\\nkilled; threw his money away instantly, and\\nhanged himself. How many of our present", "height": "3854", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 49\\nmoney-seekers, think you, would have the\\ngrace to hang themselves, whoever was killed?\\nBut Judas was a common, selfish, muddle]\\nheaded, pilfering fellow his hand always in\\nthe bag of the poor, not caring for them. He\\ndidn t understand Christ; yet believed in\\nHim, much more than most of us do; had seen\\nHim do miracles, thought He was quite strong\\nenough to shift for Himself, and he, Judas,\\nmight as well make his own little by-perquis-\\nites out of the affair. Christ would come out\\nof it well enough, and he have his thirty pieces.\\nNow, that is the money-seeker s idea, all over\\nthe world. He doesn t hate Christ, but can t\\nunderstand Him doesn t care for Him sees\\nno good in that benevolent business makes his\\nown little object out of it at all events, come\\nwhat will. And thus, out of every mass of\\nmen, you have a certain number of bag-men\\nyour fee first men, whose main object is to\\nmake money. And they do make it make it\\nin all sorts of unfair ways, chiefly by the weight\\nand force of money itself, or what is called\\nthe power of capital that is to say, the power\\nwhich money, once obtained, has over the labor\\nof the poor, so that the capitalist can take all\\nits produce to himself, except the laborer s\\nfood. That is the modern Judas way of car-", "height": "3765", "width": "2293", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nrying the bag, and bearing what is put\\ntherein.\\nNay, but (it is asked) how is that an unfair\\nadvantage? Has not the man who has worked\\nfor the money a right to use it as he best can?\\nNo; in this respect, money is now exactly what\\nmountain promontories over public roads\\nwere in old times. The barons fought for\\nthem fairly: the strongest and cunningest got\\nthem; then fortified them; and made every\\none who passed below pay toll. Well, capital\\nnow is exactly what crags were then. Men\\nfight fairly (we will, at least, grant so much,\\nthough it is more than we ought) for their\\nmoney but, once having got it, the fortified\\nmillionaire can make everybody who passes\\nbelow pay toll to his million, and build another\\ntower of his money castle. And I can tell\\nyou, the poor vagrants by the roadside suffer\\nnow quite as much from the bag-baron, as\\never they did from the crag-baron. Bags and\\ncrags have just the same result on rags. I\\nhave not time, however, to-night to show you\\nin how many ways the power of capital is\\nunjust; but this one great principle I have to\\nassert you will find it quite indisputably true\\nthat whenever money is the principal object\\nof life with either man or nation, it is both got", "height": "3818", "width": "2374", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 51\\nill, and spent ill; and does harm both in the\\ngetting and spending but when it is not the\\nprincipal object, it and all other things will be\\nwell got, and well spent. And here is the\\ntest, with every man, of whether money is the\\nprincipal object with him, or not. If in mid-\\nlife he could pause and say, Now I have\\nenough to live upon, I ll live upon it; and\\nhaving well earned it, I will also well spend it,\\nand go out of the world poor, as I came into\\nit, then money is not principal with him; but\\nif, having enough to live upon in the manner\\nbefitting his character and rank, he still wants\\nto make more, and to die rich, then money is\\nthe principal object with him, and it becomes\\na curse to himself, and generally to those who\\nspend it after him. For you know it must be\\nspent some day the only question is whether\\nthe man who makes it shall spend it, or some\\none else. And generally it is better for the\\nmaker to spend it, for he will know best its\\nvalue and use. This is the true law of life.\\nAnd if a man does not choose thus to spend his\\nmoney, he must either hoard it or lend it, and\\nthe worst thing he can generally do is to lend\\nit; for borrowers are nearly always ill- spend-\\ners, and it is with lent money that all evil is\\nmainly done and all unjust war protracted.", "height": "3764", "width": "2247", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nFor observe what the real fact is, respecting\\nloans to foreign military governments, and\\nhow strange it is. If your little boy came to\\nyou to ask for money to spend in squibs and\\ncrackers, you would think twice before you gave\\nit him and you would have some idea that it\\nwas wasted, when you saw it fly off in fire-\\nworks, even though he did no mischief with it.\\nBut the Russian children, and Austrian chil-\\ndren, come to you, borrowing money, not to\\nspend in innocent squibs, but in cartridges and\\nbayonets to attack you in India with, and to\\nkeep down all noble life in Italy with, and to\\nmurder Polish women and children with and\\nthat you will give at once, because they payyou\\ninterest for it. Now, in order to pay you that\\ninterest, they must tax every working peasant\\nin their dominions; and on that work you live.\\nYou therefore at once rob the Austrian peas-\\nant, assassinate or banish the Polish peasant,\\nand you live on the produce of the theft, and\\nthe bribe for the assassination! That is the\\nbroad fact that is the practical meaning of\\nyour foreign loans, and of most large interest\\nof money; and then you quarrel with Bishop\\nColenso, forsooth, as if he denied the Bible,\\nand you believed it! though, wretches as you\\nare, every deliberate act of your lives is a new", "height": "3833", "width": "2368", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 53\\ndefiance of its primary orders; and as if, for\\nmost of the rich men of England at this\\nmoment, it were not indeed to be desired, as\\nthe best thing at least for them, that the Bible\\nshould not be true, since against them these\\nwords are written in it: The rust of your\\ngold and silver shall be a witness against you,\\nand shall eat your flesh, as it were fire.\\nIII. I pass now to our third condition of sep-\\naration, between the men who work with the\\nhand, and those who work with the head.\\nAnd here we have at last an inevitable dis-\\ntinction. There must be work done by the\\narms, or none of us could live. There must be\\nwork done by the brains, or the life we get\\nwould not be worth having. And the same\\nmen cannot do both. There is rough work to\\nbe done, and rough men must do it there is\\ngentle work to be done, and gentlemen must\\ndo it and it is physically impossible that one\\nclass should do, or divide, the work of the\\nother. And it is of no use to try to conceal\\nthis sorrowful fact by fine words, and to talk\\nto the workman about the honorableness of\\nmanual labor, and the dignity of humanity.\\nThat is a grand old proverb of Sancho Panza s,\\n44 Fine words butter no parsnips and I can tell\\nyou that, all over England just now, you", "height": "3769", "width": "2287", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ngentlemen are buying a great deal too much\\nbutter at that dairy. Rough work, honorable\\nor not, takes the life out of us: and the man\\nwho has been heaving clay out of a ditch all\\nday, or driving an express train against the\\nnorth wind all night, or holding a collier s\\nhelm in a gale on a lee-shore, or whirling\\nwhite-hot iron at a furnace mouth, that man is\\nnot the same at the end of his day, or night,\\nas one who has been sitting in a quiet room,\\nwith everything comfortable about him, read-\\ning books, or classing butterflies, or painting\\npictures. If it is any comfort to you to be told\\nthat the rough work is the more honorable of\\nthe two, I should be sorry to take that much of\\nconsolation from you and in some sense I need\\nnot. The rough work is at all events real,\\nhonest, and, generally, though not always, use-\\nful; while the fine work is, a great deal of it,\\nfoolish and false as well as fine, and therefore\\ndishonorable but when both kinds are equally\\nwell and worthily done, the head s is the noble\\nwork, and the hand s the ignoble; and of all\\nhand work whatsoever, necessary for the main-\\ntenance of life, those old words, In the sweat\\nof thy face thou shalt eat bread, indicate that\\nthe inherent nature of it is one of calamity; and\\nthat the ground, cursed for our sake, casts also", "height": "3828", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 55\\nsome shadow of degradation into our contest\\nwith its thorn and its thistle so that all nations\\nhave held their days honorable, or holy, and\\nconstituted them holy-days, or holidays,\\nby making them days of rest and the promise,\\nwhich, among all our distant hopes, seems to\\ncast the chief brightness over death, is that\\nblessing of the dead who die in the Lord, that\\n44 they rest from their labors, and their works\\ndo follow them.\\nAnd thus the perpetual question and contest\\nmust arise, who is to do this rough work? and\\nhow is the worker of it to be comforted,\\nredeemed, and rewarded? and what kind of\\nplay should he have, and what rest, in this\\nworld, sometimes, as well as in the next?\\nWell, my good working friends, these questions\\nwill take a little time to answer yet. They\\nmust be answered: all good men are occupied\\nwith them, and all honest thinkers. There s\\ngrand head work doing about them but much\\nmust be discovered, and much attempted in\\nvain, before anything decisive can be told you.\\nOnly note these few particulars, which are\\nalready sure.\\nAs to the distribution of the hard work.\\nNone of us, or very few of us, do either hard\\nor soft work because we think we ought; but", "height": "3784", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nbecause we have chanced to fall into the way\\nof it, and cannot help ourselves. Now, nobody\\ndoes anything well that they cannot help\\ndoing work is only done well when it is done\\nwith a will; and no man has a thoroughly\\nsound will unless he knows he is doing what\\nhe should, and is in his place. And, depend\\nupon it, all work must be done at last, not in a\\ndisorderly, scrambling, doggish way, but in an\\nordered, soldierly, human way a lawful way.\\nMen are enlisted for the labor that kills the\\nlabor of war: they are counted, trained, fed,\\ndressed, and praised for that. Let them be\\nenlisted also for the labor that feeds: let them\\nbe counted, trained, fed, dressed, praised for\\nthat. Teach the plough exercise as carefully\\nas you do the sword exercise, and let the\\nofficers of troops of life be held as much\\ngentlemen as the officers of troops of death;\\nand all is done but neither this, nor any other\\nright thing, can be accomplished you can t\\neven see your way to it unless, first of all,\\nboth servant and master are resolved that,\\ncome what will of it, they will do each other\\njustice. People are perpetually squabbling\\nabout what will be best to do, or easiest to do,\\nor advisablest to do, or profitablest to do; but\\nthey never, so far as I hear them talk, ever ask", "height": "3852", "width": "2396", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "You will come to the little crossing sweeper. Page 59.\\nThe Crown of Wild Olive.", "height": "3779", "width": "2404", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3833", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 57\\nwhat it is just to do. And it is the law of\\nheaven that you shall not be able to judge what\\nis wise or easy, unless you are first resolved to\\njudge what is just, and to do it. This is the\\none thing constantly reiterated by our Master\\nthe order of all others that is given oftenest\\nDo justice and judgment/ That s your\\nBible order; that s the Service of God, not\\npraying nor psalm-singing. You are told,\\nindeed, to sing psalms when you are merry,\\nand to pray when you need anything and, by\\nthe perversion of the Evil Spirit, we get to\\nthink that praying and psalm-singing are\\nservice. If a child finds itself in want of\\nanything, it runs in and asks its father for it\\ndoes it call that, doing its father a service? If\\nit begs for a toy or a piece of cake does it\\ncall that, serving its father? That, with God,\\nis prayer, and He likes to hear it He likes you\\nto ask Him for cake when you want it; but He\\ndoesn t call that serving Him. Begging is\\nnot serving God likes mere beggars as little\\nas you do He likes honest servants, not beg-\\ngars. So when a child loves its father very\\nmuch, and is very happy, it may sing little\\nsongs about him; but it doesn t call that serv-\\ning its father; neither is singing songs about\\nGod, serving God. It is enjoying ourselves, if", "height": "3786", "width": "2287", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nit s anything; most probably it is nothing; but\\nif it s anything, it is serving ourselves, not\\nGod. And yet we are impudent enough to call\\nour beggings and chaun tings Divine Serv-\\nice: we say Divine service will be per-\\nformed (that s our word the form of it gone\\nthrough) at eleven o clock. Alas! unless\\nwe perform Divine service in every willing act\\nof our life, we never perform it at all. The\\none Divine work the one ordered sacrifice\\nis to do justice: and it is the last we are ever\\ninclined to do. Anything rather than that!\\nAs much charity as you choose, but no justice.\\nNay, you will say, charity is greater than\\njustice. Yes, it is greater; it is the summit\\nof justice it is the temple of which justice is\\nthe foundation. But you can t have the top\\nwithout the bottom; you cannot build upon\\ncharity. You must build upon justice, for this\\nmain reason, that you have not, at first, char-\\nity to build with. It is the last reward of good\\nwork. Do justice to your brother (you can do\\nthat whether you love him or not), and you\\nwill come to love him. But do injustice to\\nhim, because you don t love him; and you will\\ncome to hate him. It is all very fine to think\\nyou can build upon charity to begin with but\\nyou will find all you have got to begin with,", "height": "3828", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 59\\nbegins at home, and is essentially love of your-\\nself. You well-to-do people, for instance, who\\nare here to-night, will go to M Divine service\\nnext Sunday, all nice and tidy, and your little\\nchildren will have their tight little Sunday\\nboots on, and lovely little Sunday feathers in\\ntheir hats; and you ll think, complacently and\\npiously, how lovely they look So they do and\\nyou love them heartily, and you like sticking\\nfeathers in their hats. That s all right that is\\ncharity but it is charity beginning at home.\\nThen you will come to the poor little crossing\\nsweeper, got up also, it, in its Sunday dress,\\nthe dirtiest rags it has, that it may beg the\\nbetter: we shall give it a penny, and think\\nhow good we are. That s charity going abroad.\\nBut what does Justice say, walking and watch-\\ning near us? Christian Justice has been\\nstrangely mute, and seemingly blind and, if\\nnot blind, decrepit, this many a day: she keeps\\nher accounts still, however quite steadily\\ndoing them at nights, carefully, with her band-\\nage off, and through acutest spectacles (the\\nonly modern scientific invention she cares\\nabout). You must put your ear down ever so\\nclose to her lips to hear her speak and then\\nyou will start at what she first whispers, for it\\nwill certainly be, Why shouldn t that little", "height": "3784", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ncrossing-sweeper have a feather on its head, as\\nwell as your own child? Then you may ask\\nJustice in an amazed manner, How she can\\npossibly be so foolish as to think children could\\nsweep crossings with feather on their heads?\\nThen you stoop again, and Justice says still\\nin her dull, stupid way Then, why don t\\nyou, every other Sunday, leave your child to\\nsweep the crossing, and take the little sweeper\\nto church in a hat and feather? Mercy on us\\n(you think), what will she say next? And you\\nanswer, of course, that you don t, because\\neverybody ought to remain content in the posi-\\ntion in which Providence has placed them.\\nAh, my friends, that s the gist of the whole\\nquestion. Did Providence put them in that\\nposition, or did you? You knock a man into a\\nditch, and then you tell him to remain content\\nin the position in which Providence has\\nplaced him. That s modern Christianity.\\nYou say We did not knock him into the\\nditch. How do you know what you have\\ndone, or are doing? That s just what we have\\nall got to know, and what we shall never\\nknow until the question with us every morn-\\ning, is, not how to do the gainful thing, but\\nhow to do the just thing; nor until we are at\\nleast so far on the way to being Christian,", "height": "3857", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 61\\nas to have understood that maxim of the poor\\nhalf-way Mahometan, One hour in the exe-\\ncution of justice is worth seventy years of\\nprayer.\\nSupposing, then, we have it determined with\\nappropriate justice, who is to do the hand\\nwork, the next questions must be how the\\nhand-workers are to be paid, and how they are\\nto be refreshed, and what play they are to\\nhave. Now, the possible quantity of play\\ndepends on the possible quantity of pay and\\nthe quantity of pay is not a matter for consid-\\neration to hand- workers only, but to all work-\\ners. Generally, good, useful work, whether of\\nthe hand or head, is either ill-paid, or not paid\\nat all. I don t say it should be so, but it\\nalways is so. People, as a rule, only pay for\\nbeing amused or being cheated, not for being\\nserved. Five thousand a year to your talker,\\nand a shilling a day to your fighter, digger and\\nthinker, is the rule. None of the best head\\nwork in art, literature, or science, is ever paid\\nfor. How much do you think Homer got for\\nhis Iliad? or Dante for his Paradise? only bit-\\nter bread and salt, and going up and down\\nother people s stairs. In science, the man who\\ndiscovered the telescope, and first saw heaven,\\nwas paid with a dungeon; the man who", "height": "3770", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ninvented the microscope, and first saw earth,\\ndied of starvation, driven from his home; it is\\nindeed very clear that God means all thor-\\noughly good work and talk to be done for\\nnothing. Baruch, the scribe, did not get a\\npenny a line for writing Jeremiah s second roll\\nfor him, I fancy; and Joseph did not get bish-\\nop s pay for that long sermon of his to the\\nPharisees; nothing but stones. For indeed\\nthat is the world-father s proper payment.\\nSo surely as any of the world s children work\\nfor the world s good, honestly, with head and\\nheart; and come to it, saying, Give us a little\\nbread, just to keep the life n us, the world-\\nfather answers them, lt No, my children, not\\nbread; a stone, if you like, or as many as you\\nneed, to keep you quiet. But the hand- work-\\ners are not so ill off as all this comes to. The\\nworst that can happen to you is to break stones\\nnot be broken by them. And for you there\\nwill come a time for better payment some day,\\nassuredly, more pence will be paid to Peter\\nthe Fisherman, and fewer to Peter the Pope\\nwe shall pay people not quite so much for talk-\\ning in Parliament and doing nothing, as for\\nholding their tongues out of it and doing\\nsomething we shall pay our ploughman a little\\nmore and our lawyer a little less, and so on:", "height": "3820", "width": "2393", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 63\\nbut, at least, we may even now take care that\\nwhatever work is done shall be fully paid for;\\nand the man who does it paid for it, not some-\\nbody else and that it shall be done in an order-\\nly, soldierly, well-guided, wholesome way, under\\ngood captains and lieutenants of labor; and\\nthat it shall have its appointed times of rest,\\nand enough of them; and that in those times\\nthe play shall be wholesome play, not in the-\\natrical gardens, with tin flowers and gas sun-\\nshine, and girls dancing because of their mis-\\nery but in true gardens, with real flowers, and\\nreal sunshine, and children dancing because of\\ntheir gladness so that truly the streets shall\\nbe full (the streets, mind you, not the gut-\\nters) of children, playing in the midst thereof.\\nWe may take care that workingmen shall have\\nat least as good books to read as anybody else,\\nwhen they ve time to read them and as com-\\nfortable firesides to sit at as anybody else when\\nthey ve time to sit at them. This, I think, can\\nbe managed for you, my working friends, in\\nthe good time.\\nIV. I must go on, however, to our last head,\\nconcerning ourselves all, as workers. What\\nis wise work, and what is foolish work? What\\nthe difference between sense and nonsense,\\nin daily occupation?", "height": "3779", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nWell, wise work is, briefly, work with God.\\nFoolish work is work against God. And work\\ndone with God, which He will help, may be\\nbriefly described as Putting in Order that\\nis, enforcing God s law of order, spiritual and\\nmaterial, over men and things. The first\\nthing you have to do, essentially; the real\\ngood work is, with respect to men, to en-\\nforce justice, and with respect to things, to\\nenforce tidiness, and fruitfulness. And against\\nthese two great human deeds, justice and\\norder, there are perpetually two great demons\\ncontending, the devil of iniquity, or inequity,\\nand the devil of disorder, or of death; for\\ndeath is only consummation of disorder. You\\nhave to fight these two fiends daily. So far as\\nyou don t fight against the fiend of iniquity,\\nyou work for him. You work iniquity, and\\nthe judgment upon you, for all your Lord,\\nLord s, will be Depart from me, ye that\\nwork iniquity. And so far as you do not\\nresist the fiend of disorder, you work disorder,\\nand you yourself do the work of Death, which\\nis sin, and has for its wages, Death himself.\\nObserve then, all wise work is mainly three-\\nfold in character. It is honest, useful, and\\ncheerful.\\nI. It is honest. I hardly know anything", "height": "3863", "width": "2321", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 65\\nmore strange than that you recognize honesty\\nin play, and you do not in work. In your\\nlightest games, you have always some one to\\nsee what you call fair-play. In boxing,\\nyou must hit fair in racing, start fair. Your\\nEnglish watchword is fair-play, your English\\nhatred, foul-play. Did it ever strike you that\\nyou wanted another watchword also, fair- work,\\nand another hatred also, foul- work? Your\\nprize-fighter has some honor in him yet; and\\nso have the men in the ring round him they\\nwill judge him to lose the match, by foul hit-\\nting. But your prize-merchant gains his match\\nby foul selling, and no one cries out against\\nthat. You drive a gambler out of the gambling-\\nroom who loads dice, but you leave a trades-\\nman in flourishing business who loads scales!\\nFor observe, all dishonest dealing is loading\\nscales. What does it matter whether I get\\nshort weight, adulterate substance, or dis-\\nhonest fabric? The fault in the fabric is incom-\\nparably the worst of the two. Give me short\\nmeasure of food, and I only lose by you but\\ngive me adulterate food, and I die by you.\\nHere, then, is your chief duty, you workmen\\nand tradesmen to be true to yourselves, and\\nto us who would help you. We can do nothing\\nfor you, nor you for yourselves, without hon-\\n5 Crown", "height": "3785", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nesty. Get that, you get all without that, your\\nsuffrages, your reforms, your free-trade meas-\\nures, your institutions of science, are all in\\nvain. It is useless to put your heads together,\\nif you can t put your hearts together. Shoul-\\nder to shoulder, right hand to right hand,\\namong yourselves, and no wrong hand to any-\\nbody else, and you ll win the world yet.\\nII. Then, secondly, wise work is useful. No\\nman minds, or ought to mind, its being hard,\\nif only it comes to something but when it is\\nhard, and comes to nothing; when all our bees\\nbusiness turns to spiders and for honey-\\ncomb we have only resultant cobweb, blown\\naway by the next breeze that is the cruel\\nthing for the worker. Yet do we ever ask\\nourselves, personally, or even nationally,\\nwhether our work is coming to anything or\\nnot? We don t care to keep what has been\\nnobly done still less do we care to do nobly\\nwhat others would keep and, least of all, to\\nmake the work itself useful instead of deadly\\nto the doer, so as to use his life indeed, but\\nnot to waste it. Of all wastes, the greatest\\nwaste that you can commit is the waste of\\nlabor. If you went down in the morning into\\nyour dairy, and you found that your youngest\\nchild had got down before you and that he", "height": "3853", "width": "2384", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 67\\nand the cat were at play together, and that he\\nhad poured out all the cream on the floor for\\nthe cat to lap up, you would scold the child,\\nand be sorry the milk was wasted. But if,\\ninstead of wooden bowls with milk in them,\\nthere are golden bowls with human life in\\nthem, and instead of the cat to play with the\\ndevil to play with; and you yourself the\\nplayer; and instead of leaving that golden\\nbowl to be broken by God at the fountain,\\nyou break it in the dust yourself, and pour the\\nhuman blood out on the ground for the fiend\\nto lick up that is no waste! What! you\\nperhaps think, to waste the labor of men is\\nnot to kill them. Is it not? I should like to\\nknow how you could kill them more utterly\\nkill them with second deaths? It is the\\nslightest way of killing to stop a man s breath.\\nNay, the hunger, and the cold, and the little\\nwhistling bullets our love-messengers be-\\ntween nation and nation have brought pleas-\\nant messages from us to many a man before\\nnow orders of sweet release, and leave at last\\nto go where he will be most welcome and most\\nhappy. At the worst you do but shorten his\\nlife, you do not corrupt his life. But if you\\nput him to base labor, if you bind his thoughts,\\nif you blind his eyes, if you blunt his hopes,", "height": "3767", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nif you steal his joys, if you stunt his body,\\nand blast his soul, and at last leave him not so\\nmuch as to reap the poor fruit of his degrada-\\ntion, but gather that for yourself, and dismiss\\nhim to the grave, when you have done with\\nhim, having, so far as in you lay, made the\\nwalls of that grave everlasting (though, in-\\ndeed, I fancy the goodly bricks of some of\\nour family vaults will hold closer in the resur-\\nrection day than the sod over the laborer s\\nhead), this you think is no waste, and no sin!\\nIII. Then, lastly, wise work is cheerful, as\\na child s work is. And now I want you to\\ntake one thought home with you, and let it\\nstay with you.\\nEverybody in this room has been taught\\nto pray daily, Thy kingdom come. Now,\\nif we hear a man swear in the streets, we think\\nit very wrong, and say he takes God s name\\nin vain. But there s a twenty times worse\\nway of taking His name in vain than that. It\\nis to ask God for what we don t want. He\\ndoesn t like that sort of prayer. If you don t\\nwant a thing, don t ask for it: such asking is\\nthe worst mockery of your King you can mock\\nHim with; the soldiers striking Him on the\\nhead with the reed was nothing to that. If\\nyou do not wish for His kingdom, don t pray", "height": "3860", "width": "2336", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 69\\nfor it. But if you do, you must do more than\\npray for it; you must work for it. And, to\\nwork for it, you must know what it is we have\\nall prayed for it many a day without thinking.\\nObserve, it is a kingdom that is to come to us\\nwe are not to go to it. Also, it is not to be a\\nkingdom of the dead, but of the living. Also,\\nit is not to come all at once, but quietly;\\nnobody knows how; The kingdom of God\\ncometh not with observation. Also, it is not\\nto come outside of us, but in the hearts of us:\\nthe kingdom of God is within you. V And\\nbeing within us, it is not a thing to be seen,\\nbut to be felt and though it brings all sub-\\nstance of good with it, it does not consist in\\nthat: the kingdom of God is not meat and\\ndrink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the\\nHoly Ghost: joy, that is to say, in the holy,\\nhealthful, and helpful Spirit. Now, if we want\\nto work for this kingdom, and to bring it, and\\nenter into it, there s just one condition to be\\nfirst accepted. You must enter it as children,\\nor not at all; Whosoever will not receive it\\nas a little child shall not enter therein. And\\nagain, Suffer little children to come unto me,\\nand forbid them not, for of such is the king-\\ndom of heaven.\\nOf such, observe. Not of children them-", "height": "3783", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nselves, but of such as children. I believe most\\nmothers who read that text think that all\\nheaven is to be full of babies. But that s not\\nso. There will be children there, but the hoary\\nhead is the crown. Length of days, and long\\nlife and peace, that is the blessing, not to die\\nin babyhood. Children die but for their\\nparent s sins; God means them to live, but He\\ncan t let them always; then they have their\\nearlier place in heaven and the little child of\\nDavid, vainly prayed for; the little child of\\nJeroboam, killed by its mother s step on its\\nown threshold, they will be there. But weary\\nold David, and weary old Barzillai, having\\nlearned children s lessons at last, will be there,\\ntoo and the one question for us all, young or\\nold, is, have we learned our child s lesson? it\\nis the character of children we want, and\\nmust gain at our peril let us see, briefly, in\\nwhat it consists.\\nThe first character of right childhood is that\\nit is Modest. A well-bred child does not think\\nit can teach its parents, or that it knows every-\\nthing. It may think its father and mother\\nknow everything, perhaps that all grown-up\\npeople know everything; very certainly it is\\nsure that it does not. And it is always asking\\nquestions, and wanting to know more. Well,", "height": "3833", "width": "2402", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 71\\nthat is the first character of a good and wise\\nman at his work. To know that he knows very-\\nlittle to perceive that there are many above\\nhim wiser than he and to be always asking\\nquestions, wanting to learn, not to teach. No\\none ever teaches well who wants to teach, or\\ngoverns well who wants to govern it is an old\\nsaying (Plato s, but I know not if his, first),\\nand as wise as old.\\nThen, the second character of right child-\\nhood is to be Faithful. Perceiving that its\\nfather knows best what is good for it, and hav-\\ning found always, when it has tried its own\\nway against his, that he was right and it was\\nwrong, a noble child trusts him at last wholly,\\ngives him its hand, and will walk blindfold\\nwith him, if he bids it. And that is the true\\ncharacter of all good men also, as obedient\\nworkers, or soldiers under captains. They\\nmust trust their captains they are bound for\\ntheir lives to choose none but those whom they\\ncan trust. Then, they are not always to be\\nthinking that what seems strange to them, or\\nwrong in what they are desired to do, is\\nstrange or wrong. They know their captain\\nwhere he leads they must follow, what he bids,\\nthey must do and without this trust and faith,\\nwithout this captainship and soldiership, no", "height": "3774", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "72 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ngreat deed, no great salvation, is possible to\\nman. Among all the nations it is only when\\nthis faith is attained by them that they become\\ngreat: the Jew, the Greek, and the Mahom-\\netan, agree at least in testifying to this. It\\nwas a deed of this absolute trust which made\\nAbraham the father of the faithful it was the\\ndeclaration of the power of God as captain\\nover all men, and the acceptance of a leader\\nappointed by Him as commander of the faith-\\nful, which laid the foundation of whatever\\nnational power yet exists in the East and the\\ndeed of the Greeks, which has become the\\ntype of unselfish and noble soldiership to all\\nlands, and to all times, was commemorated, on\\nthe tomb of those who gave their lives to do\\nit, in the most pathetic, so far as I know, or\\ncan feel, of all human utterances: Oh,\\nstranger, go and tell our people that we are\\nlying here, having obeyed their words.\\nThen the third character of right childhood\\nis to be Loving and Generous. Give a little\\nlove to a child, and you get a great deal back.\\nIt loves everything near it, when it is a right\\nkind of child would hurt nothing, would give\\nthe best it has away, always, if you need it\\ndoes not lay plans for getting everything in the\\nhouse for itself, and delights in helping peo-", "height": "3853", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 73\\npie you cannot please it so much as by giving\\nit a chance of being useful, in ever so little\\na way.\\nAnd because of all these characters, lastly,\\nit is Cheerful. Putting its trust in its father,\\nit is careful for nothing being full of love to\\nevery creature, it is happy always, whether in\\nits play or in its duty. Well, that s the great\\nworker s character also. Taking no thought\\nfor the morrow taking thought only for the\\nduty of the day; trusting somebody else to\\ntake care of to-morrow knowing indeed what\\nlabor is, but not what sorrow is and always\\nready for play, beautiful play, for lovely\\nhuman play is like the play of the Sun.\\nThere s a worker for you. He, steady to his\\ntime, is set as a strong man to run his course,\\nbut also, he rejoiceth as a strong man to run\\nhis course. See how he plays in the morning,\\nwith the mists below, and the clouds above,\\nwith a ray here and a flash there, and a shower\\nof jewels everywhere; that s the Sun s play;\\nand great human play is like his all various\\nall full of light and life, and tender, as the\\ndew of the morning.\\nSo then, you have the child s character in\\nthese four things Humility, Faith, Charity,\\nand Cheerfulness. That s what you have got\\n6 Crown", "height": "3783", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE\\nto be converted to. Except ye be converted\\nand become as little children You hear\\nmuch of conversion nowadays; but people\\nalways seem to think you have got to be made\\nwretched by conversion, to be converted to\\nlong faces. No, friends, you have got to be\\nconverted to short ones; you have to repent\\ninto childhood, to repent into delight, and de-\\nlightsomeness. You can t go into a conven-\\nticle but you ll hear plenty of talk of backslid-\\ning. Backsliding, indeed! I can tell you,\\non the ways most of us go, the faster we slide\\nback the better. Slide back into the cradle,\\nif going on is into the grave back, I tell you;\\nback out of your long faces, and into your\\nlong clothes. It is among children only, and\\nas children only, that you will find medicine\\nfor your healing and true wisdom for your\\nteaching. There is poison in the counsels of\\nthe man of this w r orld the words they speak\\nare all bitterness, the poison of asps is under\\ntheir lips/ but the suckling child shall play\\nby the hole of the asp. M There is death in\\nthe looks of men. Their eyes are privily set\\nagainst the poor; they are as the uncharm-\\nable serpent, the cockatrice, which slew by\\nseeing. But the weaned child shall lay his\\nhand on the cockatrice den. There is death", "height": "3859", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 75\\nin the steps of men: their feet are swift to\\nshed blood; they have compassed us in our\\nsteps like the lion that is greedy of his prey,\\nand the young lion lurking in secret places,\\nbut, in that kingdom, the wolf shall lie down\\nwith the lamb, and the fatling with the lion,\\nand a little child shall lead them. There is\\ndeath in the thoughts of men the world is one\\nwide riddle to them, darker and darker as it\\ndraws to a close but the secret of it is known\\nto the child, and the Lord of heaven and\\nearth is most to be thanked in that He has\\nhidden these things from the wise and pru-\\ndent, and has revealed them unto babes.\\nYes, and there is death infinitude of death in\\nthe principalities and powers of men. As far\\nas the east is from the west, so far our sins\\nare not set from us, but multiplied around us\\nthe Sun himself, think you he now rejoices\\nto run his course, when he plunges westward\\nto the horizon, so widely red, not with\\nclouds, but blood? And it will be red more\\nwidely yet. Whatever drought of the early\\nand latter rain may be, there will be none of\\nthat red rain. You fortify yourselves against\\nit in vain; the enemy and avenger will be\\nupon you also, unless you learn that it is not\\nout of the mouths of the knitted gun, or the.", "height": "3775", "width": "2300", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nsmoothed rifle, but out of the mouths of\\nbabes and sucklings that the strength is\\nordained, which shall still the enemy and\\navenger.", "height": "3852", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "LECTURE II.\\nTRAFFIC.\\n77", "height": "3771", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3833", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "LECTURE II.\\nTRAFFIC.\\n(Delivered in the Town Hall, Bradford.)\\nMy good Yorkshire friends, you have asked\\nme down here among your hills that I might\\ntalk to you about this Exchange you are going\\nto build; but earnestly and seriously asking\\nyou to pardon me, I am going to do nothing\\nof the kind. I cannot talk, or at least can say\\nvery little, about this same Exchange. I must\\ntalk of quite other things, though not unwill-\\ningly; I could not deserve your pardon, if\\nwhen you invited me to speak on one subject,\\nI wilfully spoke on another. But I cannot\\nspeak, to purpose, of anything about which I\\ndo not care and most simply and sorrowfully\\nI have to tell you, in the outset, that I do not\\ncare about this Exchange of yours.\\nIf, however, when you sent me your invita-\\ntion, I had answered, I won t come. I don t\\ncare about the Exchange of Bradford, M you\\nwould have been justly offended with me, not\\nknowing the reason of so blunt a carelessness.\\nSo I have come down, hoping that you will\\n79", "height": "3779", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "80 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\npatiently let me tell you why, on this, and\\nmany other such occasions, I now remain sil-\\nent, when formerly I should have caught at\\nthe opportunity of speaking to a gracious audi-\\nence.\\nIn a word, then, I do not care about this\\nExchange, because you don t; and because\\nyou know perfectly well I cannot make you.\\nLook at the essential circumstances of the\\ncase, which you, as business men, know per-\\nfectly well, though perhaps you think I forget\\nthem. You are going to spend 30,000/., which\\nto you, collectively, is nothing the buying a\\nnew coat is, as to the cost of it, a much more\\nimportant matter of consideration to me than\\nbuilding a new Exchange is to you. But you\\nthink you may as well have the right thing for\\nyour money. You know there are a great\\nmany odd styles of architecture about you\\ndon t want to do anything ridiculous; you hear\\nof me, among others, as a respectable archi-\\ntectural man-milliner; and you send for me,\\nthat I may tell you the leading fashion and\\nwhat is, in our shops, for the moment, the\\nnewest and sweetest thing in pinnacles.\\nNow, pardon me for telling you frankly, you\\ncannot have good architecture merely by ask-\\ning people s advice on occasion. All good", "height": "3833", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 81\\narchitecture is the expression of national life\\nand character, and it is produced by a prevalent\\nand eager national taste, or desire for beauty.\\nAnd I want you to think a little of the deep\\nsignificance of this word taste; for no state-\\nment of mine has been more earnestly or\\noftener controverted than that good taste is\\nessentially a moral quality. No, say many\\nof my antagonists, taste is one thing, moral-\\nity is another. Tell us what is pretty we\\nshall be glad to know that but preach no ser-\\nmons to us.\\nPermit me, therefore, to fortify this old\\ndogma of mine somewhat. Taste is not only\\na part and an index of morality it is the only\\nmorality. The first, and last, and closest trial\\nquestion to any living creature is, What do\\nyou like? Tell me what you like, and I ll\\ntell you what you are. Go out into the street,\\nand ask the first man or woman you meet,\\nwhat their taste is, and if they answer can-\\ndidly, you know them, body and soul. You,\\nmy friend in the rags, with the unsteady gait,\\nwhat do you like? A pipe and a quartern\\nof gin. I know you. You, my good\\nwoman, with the quick step and tidy bonnet,\\nwhat do you like? A swept hearth and a\\nclean tea-table, and my husband opposite me,", "height": "3785", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nand a baby at my breast. Good, I know you\\nalso. You, little girl with the golden hair\\nand soft eyes, what do you like? My\\ncanary, and a run among the wood hyacinths.\\nYou, little boy with the dirty hands and the\\nlow forehead, what do you like? A shy at\\nthe sparrows, and a game of pitch-farthing.\\nGood; we know them all now. What more\\nneed we ask?\\nNay, perhaps you answer: we need\\nrather to ask what these people and children\\ndo, than what they like. If they do right, it is\\nno matter that they like what is wrong and if\\nthey do wrong, it is no matter that they like\\nwhat is right. Doing is the great thing; and\\nit does not matter that the man likes drink-\\ning, so that he does not drink; nor that\\nthe little girl likes to be kind to her canary, if\\nshe will not learn her lessons; nor that the lit-\\ntle boy likes throwing stones at the sparrows,\\nif he goes to the Sunday school. Indeed,\\nfor a short time, and in a provisional sense,\\nthis is true. For if, resolutely, people do what\\nis right, in time they come to like doing it.\\nBut they only are in a right moral stage when\\nthey have come to like doing it and as long\\nas they don t like it, they are still in a vicious\\nstate. The man is not in health of body who", "height": "3833", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 83\\nis always thirsting for the bottle in the cup-\\nboard, though he bravely bears his thirst but\\nthe man who heartily enjoys water in the\\nmorning and wine in the evening, each in its\\nproper quantity and time. And the entire ob-\\nject of true education is to make people not\\nmerely do the right things, but enjoy the right\\nthings not merely industrious, but to love in-\\ndustry not merely learned, but to love knowl-\\nedge not merely pure, but to loyg purity\\nnot merely just, but to hunger and thirst after\\njustice.\\nBut you may answer or think, c Is the liking\\nfor outside ornaments, for pictures, for sta-\\ntues, or furniture, or architecture,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a moral\\nquality? Yes, most surely, if a rightly set\\nliking. Taste for any pictures or statues is not\\na moral quality, but taste for good ones is.\\nOnly here again we have to define the word\\ngood. I don t mean by good, clever or\\nlearned or difficult in the doing. Take a pic-\\nture by Teniers, of sots quarreling over their\\ndice it is an entirely clever picture so clever\\nthat nothing in its kind has ever been done\\nequal to it but it is also an entirely base and\\nevil picture. It is an expression of delight in\\nthe prolonged contemplation of a vile thing,\\nand delight in that is an unmannered, or", "height": "3786", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\n44 immoral quality. It is 44 bad taste in the\\nprofoundest sense it is the taste of the devils.\\nOn the other hand, a picture of Titian s, or a\\nGreek statue, or a Greek coin, or a Turner\\nlandscape, expresses delight in the perpetual\\ncontemplation of a good and perfect thing.\\nThat is an entirely moral quality it is the\\ntaste of the angels. And all delight in art,\\nand all love of it, resolve themselves into sim-\\nple love of that which deserves love. That\\ndeserving is the quality which we call 4 loveli-\\nness (we ought to have an opposite word,\\nhateliness, to be said of the things which\\ndeserve to be hated) and it is not an indiffer-\\nent nor optional thing whether we love this or\\nthat; but it is just the vital function of all our\\nbeing. What we like determines what we\\nare, and is the sign of what we are and to\\nteach taste is inevitably to form character.\\nAs I was thinking ovef this, in walking up\\nFleet Street the other day, my eye caught the\\ntitle of a book standing open in a bookseller s\\nwindow. It was On the necessity of the\\ndiffusion of taste among all classes. Ah,\\nI thought to myself, my classifying friend,\\nwhen you have diffused your taste, where will\\nyour classes be? The man who likes what you\\nlike, belongs to the same class with you, I", "height": "3847", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 85\\nthink. Inevitably so. You may put him to\\nother work if you choose; but, by the condi-\\ntion you have brought him into, he will dislike\\nthe other work as much as you would your-\\nself. You get hold of a scavenger, or a coster-\\nmonger, who enjoyed the Newgate Calender\\nfor literature, and Pop goes the Weasel!* for\\nmusic. You think you can make him like\\nDante or Beethoven? I wish you joy of your\\nlessons; but if you do, you have made a gentle-\\nman of him: he won t like to go back to his\\ncostermongering.\\nAnd as completely and unexceptionally is\\nthis so, that if I had time to-night, I could\\nshow you that a nation cannot be affected by\\nany vice, or weakness, without expressing it,\\nlegibly, and forever, either in bad art, or by\\nwant of art and that there is no national vir-\\ntue, small or great, which is not manifestly ex-\\npressed in all the art which circumstances en-\\nable the people possessing that virtue to pro-\\nduce. Take, for instance, your great English\\nvirtue of enduring and patient courage. You\\nhave at present in England only one art of any\\nconsequence that is, iron-working. You\\nknow thoroughly well how to cast and hammer\\niron. Now, do you think in those masses of\\nlava which you build volcanic cones to melt,", "height": "3772", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nand which you forge at the mouths of the In-\\nfernos you have created; do you think, on\\nthose iron plates, your courage and endurance\\nare not written forever not merely with an\\niron pen, but on iron parchment? And take\\nalso your great English vice European vice\\nvice of all the world vice of all other worlds\\nthat roll or shine in heaven, bearing with them\\nyet the atmosphere of hell the vice of jeal-\\nousy, which brings competition into commerce,\\ntreachery into your councils, and dishonor into\\nyour wars that vice which has rendered for\\nyou, and for your next neighboring nation, the\\ndaily occupations of existence no longer possi-\\nble, but with the mail upon your breasts and\\nthe sword loose in its sheath; so that, at last,\\nyou have realized for all the multitudes of the\\ntwo great peoples who lead the so-called civil-\\nization of the earth you have realized for\\nthem all, I say, in person and in policy, what\\nwas once true only of the rough Border riders\\nof your Cheviot hills\\nThey carved at the meal\\nWith gloves of steel,\\nAnd they drank the red wine through the helmet barr d\\ndo you think that this national shame and das-\\ntardliness of heart are not written as legibly\\non every rivet of your iron armor as the", "height": "3827", "width": "2336", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 87\\nstrength of the right hands that forged it?\\nFriends, I know not whether this thing be the\\nmore ludicrous or the more melancholy. It is\\nquite unspeakably both. Suppose, instead of\\nbeing now sent for by you, I had been sent fo.\\nby some private gentleman, living in a subur-\\nban house, with his garden separated only by\\na fruit-wall from his next-door neighbor s;\\nand he had called me to consult with him on\\nthe furnishing of his drawing-room. I begin\\nlooking about me, and find the walls rather\\nbare I think such and such a paper might be\\ndesirable perhaps a little fresco here and\\nthere on the ceiling a damask curtain or so at\\nthe windows. 4 Ah, says my employer,\\n44 damask curtains, indeed! That s all very\\nfine, but you know I can t afford that kind of\\nthing just now! Yet the world credits you\\nwith a splendid income! Ah, yes, said\\nmy friend, but do you know, at present, I am\\nobliged to spend it nearly all in steel-traps?\\n44 Steel- traps! for whom? Why, for that fel-\\nlow on the other side the wall, you know;\\nwe re very good friends, capital friends; but\\nwe are obliged to keep our traps set on both\\nsides of the wall; we could not possibly keep\\non friendly terms without them, and our\\nspring-guns. The worst of it is, we are both", "height": "3776", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 THE CROWiNT OF WILD OLIVE.\\nclever fellows enough; and there s never a\\nday passes that we don t find out a new trap,\\nor a new gun-barrel, or something we spend\\nabout fifteen millions a year each in our traps,\\ntake it all together; and I don t see how we re\\nto do with less. A highly comic state of life\\nfor two private gentlemen but for two nations,\\nit seems to me, not wholly comic! Bedlam\\nwould be comic, perhaps, if there were only\\none madman in it and your Christmas panto-\\nmime is comic, when there is only one clown\\nin it but when the whole world turns clown,\\nand paints itself red with its own heart s blood\\ninstead of vermilion, it is something else than\\ncomic, I think.\\nMind, I know a great deal of this is play,\\nand willingly allow for that. You don t know\\nwhat to do with yourselves for a sensation:\\nfox-hunting and cricketing will not carry you\\nthrough the whole of this unendurably long\\nmortal life you liked pop-guns when you were\\nschoolboys, and rifles and Armstrongs are only\\nthe same things better made; but then the\\nworst of it is, that what was play to you when\\nboys, was not play to the sparrows and what\\nis play to you now, is not play to the small\\nbirds of State neither; and for the black", "height": "3850", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 89\\neagles, you are somewhat shy of taking shots\\nat them, if I mistake not.\\nI must get back to the matter in hand, how-\\never. Believe me, without farther instance, I\\ncould show you, in all time, that every nation s\\nvice, or virtue, was written in its art the sol-\\ndiership of early Greece; the sensuality of late\\nItaly; the visionary religion of Tuscany; the\\nsplendid human energy and beauty of Venice.\\nI have no time to do this to-night (I have done\\nit elsewhere before now) but I proceed to\\napply the principle to ourselves in a more\\nsearching manner.\\nI notice that among all the new buildings\\nthat cover your once wild hills, churches and\\nschools are mixed in due, that is to say, in\\nlarge proportion, with your mills and man-\\nsions; and I notice also that the churches and\\nschools are almost always Gothic, and the\\nmansions and mills are never Gothic. Will\\nyou allow me to ask precisely the meaning of\\nthis? For remember, it is peculiarly a modern\\nphenomenon. When Gothic was invented,\\nhouses were Gothic as well as churches and\\nwhen the Italian style superseded the Gothic,\\nchurches were Italian as well as houses. If\\nthere is a Gothic spire to the cathedral of Ant-\\nwerp, if there is a Gothic belfry to the Hotel", "height": "3772", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nde Ville at Brussels; if Inigo Jones builds an\\nItalian Whitehall, Sir Christopher Wren builds\\nan Italian St. Paul s. But now you live under\\none school of architecture, and worship under\\nanother. What do you mean by doing this?\\nAm I to understand that you are thinking of\\nchanging your architecture back to Gothic;\\nand that you treat your churches experimen-\\ntally, because it does not matter what mistakes\\nyou make in a church? Or am I to understand\\nthat you consider Gothic a pre-eminently\\nsacred and beautiful mode of building, which\\nyou think, like the fine frankincense, should\\nbe mixed for the tabernacle only, and reserved\\nfor your religious services? For if this be the\\nfeeling, though it may seem at first as if it\\nwere graceful and reverent, you will find that,\\nat the root of the matter, it signifies neither\\nmore nor less than that you have separated\\nyour religion from your life.\\nFor consider what a wide significance this\\nfact has and remember that it is not you only,\\nbut all the people of England, who are behav-\\ning thus just now.\\nYou have all got into the habit of calling the\\nchurch the house of God. I have seen, over\\nthe doors of many churches, the legend\\nactually carved, This is the house of God,", "height": "3833", "width": "2386", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 91\\nand this is the gate of heaven. Now, note\\nwhere that legend comes from, and of what\\nplace it was first spoken. A boy leaves his\\nfather s house to go on a long journey on foot,\\nto visit his uncle he has to cross a wild hill-\\ndesert just as if one of your own boys had to\\ncross the wolds of Westmoreland, to visit an\\nuncle at Carlisle. The second or third day\\nyour boy finds himself somewhere between\\nHawes and Brough, in the midst of the moors,\\nat sunset. It is stony ground, and boggy he\\ncannot go one foot farther that night. Down\\nhe lies, to sleep, on Wharnside, where best he\\nmay, gathering a few of the stones together to\\nput under his head so wild the place is, he\\ncannot get anything but stones. And there,\\nlying under the broad night, he has a dream\\nand he sees a ladder set up on the earth, and\\nthe top of it reaches to heaven, and the angels\\nof God are ascending and descending upon it.\\nAnd when he wakes out of his sleep, he says,\\n44 How dreadful is this place; surely, this is\\nnone other than the house of God, and this is\\nthe gate of heaven. This place, observe;\\nnot this church; not this city; not this stone,\\neven, which he puts up for a memorial the\\npiece of flint on which his head has lain. But\\nthis place this windy slope of Wharnside this", "height": "3785", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "92 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nmoorland hollow, torrent-bitten, snow-blight-\\ned; this any place where God lets down the\\nladder. And how are you to know where that\\nwill be? or how are you to determine where it\\nmay be, but by being ready for it always? Do\\nyou know where the lightning is to fall next?\\nYou do know that, partly you can guide the\\nlightning; but you cannot guide the going\\nforth of the Spirit, which is that lightning\\nwhen it shines from the east to the west.\\nBut the perpetual and insolent warping of\\nthat strong verse to serve a merely ecclesiasti-\\ncal purpose, is only one of the thousand in-\\nstances in which we sink back into gross Juda-\\nism. We call our churches temples. Now,\\nyou know, or ought to know, they are not tem-\\nples. They have never had, never can have,\\nanything whatever to do with temples. They\\nare synagogues gathering places\\nwhere you gather yourselves together as an\\nassembly; and by not calling them so, you\\nagain miss the force of another mighty text\\nThou, when thou prayest, shalt not be as\\nthe hypocrites are for they love to pray stand-\\ning in the churches (we should translate it),\\n4 that they may be seen of men. But thou,\\nwhen thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and\\nwhen thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 93\\nFather, which is, not in chancel nor in aisle,\\nbut in secret.\\nNow, you feel, as I say this to you I know\\nyou feel as if I were trying to take away the\\nhonor of your churches. Not so I am trying\\nto prove to you the honor of your houses and\\nyour hills I am trying to show you not that\\nthe Church is not sacred but that the whole\\nEarth is. I would have you feel, what care-\\nless, what constant, what infectious sin there\\nis in all modes of thought, whereby, in calling\\nyour churches only holy, you call your\\nhearths and homes profane; and have sepa-\\nrated yourselves from the heathen by casting\\nall your household gods to the ground, instead\\nof recognizing, in the place of their many and\\nfeeble Lares, the presence of your One and\\nMighty Lord and Lar.\\nBut what has all this to do with our Ex-\\nchange? you ask me, impatiently. My dear\\nfriends, it has just everything to do with it;\\non these inner and great questions depend all\\nthe outer and little ones; and if you have\\nasked me down here to speak to you because\\nyou had before been interested in anything I\\nhave written, you must know that all I have\\nyet said about architecture was to show this.\\nThe book I called The Seven Lamps was to", "height": "3774", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nshow that certain right states of temper and\\nI moral feeling were the magic powers by which\\nI all good architecture, without exception, had\\nibeen produced. The Stones of Venice\\njhad, from beginning to end, no other aim than\\nto show that the Gothic architecture of Venice\\nhad arisen out of, and indicated in all its feat-\\nures, a state of pure national faith, and of\\ndomestic virtue; and that its Renaissance\\narchitecture had arisen out of, and in all its\\nfeatures indicated, a state of concealed\\nnational infidelity, and of domestic corruption.\\nAnd now, you ask me what style is best to\\nbuild in; and how can I answer, knowing the\\nmeaning of the two styles, but by another\\nquestion do you mean to build as Christians\\nor as Infidels? And still more do you mean\\nto build as honest Christians or as honest Infi-\\ndels? as thoroughly and confessedly either one\\nor the other? You don t like to be asked such\\nrude questions. I cannot help it they are of\\nmuch more importance than this Exchange\\nbusiness and if they can be at once answered,\\nthe Exchange business settles itself in a mo-\\nment. But, before I press them further, I\\nmust ask leave to explain one point clearly.\\nIn all my past work, my endeavor has been to\\nshow that good architecture is essentially", "height": "3821", "width": "2398", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 95\\nreligious the production of a faithful and vir-\\ntuous, not of an infidel and corrupted people.\\nBut in the course of doing this, I have had also\\nto show that good architecture is not ecclesias-\\ntical. People are so apt to look upon religion\\nas the business of the clergy, not their own,\\nthat the moment they hear of anything depend-\\ning on religion/ they think it must also\\nhave depended on the priesthood; and I have\\nhad to take what place was to be occupied be-\\ntween these two errors, and fight both, often\\nwith seeming contradiction. Good architecture\\nis the work of good and believing men there-\\nfore, you say, at least some people say, Good\\narchitecture must essentially have been the\\nwork of the clergy, not of the laity. No a\\nthousand times no; good architecture has\\nalways been the work of the commonalty, not\\nof the clergy. What, you say, those glorious\\ncathedrals the pride of Europe did their\\nbuilders not form Gothic architecture? No;\\nthey corrupted Gothic architecture. Gothic\\nwas formed in the baron s castle, and the\\nburgher s street. It was formed by the\\nthoughts, and hands, and powers of free citi-\\nzens and soldier kings. By the monk it was\\nused as an instrument for the aid of his super-\\nstition; when that superstition became a", "height": "3785", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "96 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nbeautiful madness, and the best hearts of Eur-\\nope vainly dreamed and pined in the cloister,\\nand vainly raged and perished in the crusade\\nthrough that fury of perverted faith and\\nwasted war, the Gothic rose also to its loveli-\\nest, most fantastic, and, finally most foolish\\ndreams and, in those dreams, was lost.\\nI hope, now, that there is no risk of your\\nmisunderstanding me when I come to the gist\\nof what I want to say to-night when I re-\\npeat, that every great national architecture\\nhas been the result and exponent of a great\\nnational religion. You can t have bits of it\\nhere, bits there you must have it every-\\nwhere, or nowhere. It is not the monopoly of\\na clerical company it is not the exponent of a\\ntheological dogma it is not the hieroglyphic\\nwriting of an initiated priesthood it is the\\nmanly language of a people inspired by reso-\\nlute and common purpose, and rendering reso-\\nlute and common fidelity to the legible laws of\\nan undoubted God.\\nNow, there have as yet been three distinct\\nschools of European architecture. I say, Eu-\\nropean, because Asiatic and African architec-\\nture belong so entirely to other races and cli-\\nmates, that there is no question of them here;\\nonly, in passing, I will simply assure you that", "height": "3833", "width": "2386", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 97\\nwhatever is good or great in, Egypt, and Syria,\\nand India, is just good or great for the same\\nreasons as the buildings on our side of the Bos-\\nphorus. We Europeans, then, have had three\\ngreat religions; the Greek, which was the\\nworship of the God of Wisdom and Power the\\nMediaeval, which was the Worship of the God\\nof Judgment and Consolation; the Renais-\\nsance, which was the worship of the God of\\nPride and Beauty; these three we have had\\nthey are past, and now, at last, we English\\nhave got a fourth religion, and a God of our\\nown, about which I want to ask you. But I\\nmust explain these three old ones first.\\nI repeat, first, the Greeks essentially wor-\\nshipped the God of Wisdom so that whatever\\ncontended against their religion, to the Jews\\na stumbling-block, was, to the Greeks\\nFoolishness.\\nThe first Greek idea of Deity was that ex-\\npressed in the word, of which we keep the\\nremnant in our words, Di-urnar and 4 Di-\\nvine* the god of Day, Jupiter the revealer.\\nAthena is his daughter, but especially daughter\\nof the Intellect, springing armed from the\\nhead. We are only with the help of recent in-\\nvestigation beginning to penetrate the depth\\nof meaning couched under the Athenaic sym-\\n7 Crown", "height": "3785", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nbols; but I may note rapidly, that her aegis the\\nmantle with the serpent fringes, in which she\\noften, in the best statues, is represented as fold-\\ning up her left hand for better guard, and the\\ngorgon on her shield, are both representative\\nmainly of the chilling horror and sadness\\n(turning men to stone, as it were), of the out-\\nmost and superficial spheres of knowledge\\nthat knowledge which separates, in bitterness,\\nhardness, and sorrow, the heart of the full-\\ngrown man from the heart of the child. For\\nout of imperfect knowledge spring terror, dis-\\nsension, danger, and disdain; but from perfect\\nknowledge, given by the full-revealed Athena,\\nstrength and peace, in sign of which she is\\ncrowned with the olive spray, and bears the\\nresistless spear.\\nThis, then, was the Greek conception of\\npurest Deity, and every habit of life, and every\\nform of his art developed themselves from the\\nseeking this bright, serene, resistless wisdom;\\nand setting himself, as a man, to do things\\nevermore rightly and strongly not with any\\n*It is an error to suppose that the Greek worship, or\\nseeking, was chiefly of Beauty. It was essentially of\\nRightness and Strength founded on Forethought; the\\nprincipal character of Greek art is not Beauty, but de-\\nsign; and the Dorian Apollo-worship and Athenian Vir-\\ngin-worship are both expressions of adoration of divine\\nWisdom and Purity. Next to these great deities rank,", "height": "3854", "width": "2387", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 99\\nardent affection or ultimate hope but with a\\nresolute and contingent energy of will, as\\nknowing that for failure there was no consola-\\ntion, and for sin there was no remission. And\\nthe Greek architecture rose unerring, bright,\\nclearly defined, and self-contained.\\nNext followed in Europe the great Christian\\nfaith, which was essentially the religion of\\nComfort. Its great doctrine is the remission\\nof sins for which cause it happens, too often,\\nin certain phases of Christianity, that sin and\\nsickness themselves are partly glorified, as if,\\nthe more you have to be healed of, the more\\ndivine was the healing. The practical result\\nof this doctrine, in art, is a continual contem-\\nplation of sin and disease, and of imaginary\\nstates of purification from them thus we have\\nan architecture conceived in a mingled senti-\\nment of melancholy and aspiration, partly\\nsevere, partly luxuriant, which will bend it-\\nself to every one of our needs, and every one\\nof our fancies, and be strong or weak with us,\\nas we are strong or weak ourselves. It is, of\\nall architecture, the basest, when base people\\nin power over the national mind, Dionysus and Ceres,\\nthe givers of human strength and life; then, for heroic\\nexample, Hercules. There is no Venus-worship among\\nthe Greeks in the great times and the Muses are essen-\\ntially teachers of Truth, and of its harmonies.\\narc", "height": "3780", "width": "2303", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "100 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nbuild it of all, the noblest, when built by the\\nnoble.\\nAnd now note that both these religions\\nGreek and Mediaeval perished by falsehood\\nin their own main purpose. The Greek reli-\\ngion of Wisdom perished in a false philosophy\\nOppositions of science, falsely so called.\\nThe Mediaeval religion of Consolation perished\\nin false comfort in remission of sins given\\nlyingly. It was the selling of absolution that\\nended the Mediaeval faith; and I can tell you\\nmore, it is the selling of absolution which, to\\nthe end of time, will mark false Christianity.\\nPure Christianity gives her remission of sins\\nonly by ending them; but false Christianity\\ngets her remission of sins by compounding for\\nthem. And there are many ways of com-\\npounding for them. We English have beauti-\\nful little quiet ways of buying absolution,\\nwhether in low Church or high, far more cun-\\nning than any of Tetzel s trading.\\nThen, thirdly, there followed the religion of\\nPleasure, in which all Europe gave itself to\\nluxury, ending in death. First, bals masques\\nin every saloon, and then guillotines in every\\nsquare. And all these three worships issue\\nin vast temple building. Your Greek wor-\\nshipped Wisdom, and built you the Parthenon", "height": "3854", "width": "2363", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 101\\nthe Virgin s temple. The Mediaeval wor-\\nshipped Consolation, and built you Virgin tem-\\nples also but to our Lady of Salvation. Then\\nthe Revivalist worshipped beauty, of a sort,\\nand built you Versailles, and the Vatican.\\nNow, lastly, will you tell me what we worship,\\nand what we build?\\nYou know we are speaking always of the\\nreal, active, continual, national worship; that\\nby which men act while they live not that\\nwhich they talk of when they die. Now, we\\nhave, indeed, a nominal religion, to which we\\npay tithes of property and sevenths of time\\nbut we have also a practical and earnest relig-\\nion, to which we devote nine-tenths of our\\nproperty and six-sevenths of our time. And\\nwe dispute a great deal about the nominal\\nreligion but we are all unanimous about this\\npractical one, of which I think you will admit j\\nthat the ruling goddess may be best generally\\ndescribed as the t4 Goddess of Getting-on, or\\n44 Britannia of the Market. The Athenians\\nhad an Athena Agoraia. or Minerva of the\\nMarket; but she was a subordinate type of\\ntheir goddess, while our Britannia Agoraia is\\nthe principal type of ours. And all your great\\narchitectural works, are, of course, built to\\nher. It is long since you built a great cathe-", "height": "3783", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ndral and how you would laugh at me, if I pro-\\nposed building a cathedral on the top of one of\\nthese hills of yours, taking it for an Acropo-\\nlis! But your railroad mounds, prolonged\\nmasses of Acropolis; your railroad stations,\\nvaster than the Parthenon, and innumerable;\\nyour chimneys, how much more mighty and\\ncostly than cathedral spires! your harbor-\\npiers; your warehouses; your exchanges! all\\nthese are built to your great Goddess of\\nGetting-on; and she has formed, and will\\ncontinue to form, your architecture, as long as\\nyou worship her; and it is quite vain to ask\\nme to tell you how to build to her; you know\\nfar better than I.\\nThere might indeed, on some theories, be a\\nconceivably good architecture for Exchanges\\nthat is to say if there were any heroism in the\\nfact or deed of exchange, which might be typi-\\ncally carved on the outside of your building.\\nFor, you know, all beautiful architecture must\\nbe adorned with sculpture or painting; and for\\nsculpture or painting, you must have a sub-\\nject. And hitherto it has been a received\\nopinion among the nations of the world that\\nthe only right subjects for either, were hero-\\nisms of some sort. Even on his pots and his\\nflagons, the Greek put a Hercules slaying", "height": "3848", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 103\\nlions, or an Apollo slaying serpents, or Bac-\\nchus slaying melancholy giants, and earth-\\nborne despondencies. On his temples, the\\nGreek put contests of great warriors in found-\\ning states, or of gods with evil spirits. On\\nhis houses and temples alike, the Christian put\\ncarvings of angels conquering devils; or of\\nhero-martyrs exchanging this world for an-\\nother; subject inappropriate, I think, to our\\nmanner of exchange here. And the Master\\nof Christians not only left his followers with-\\nout any orders as to the sculpture of affairs of\\nexchange on the outside of buildings, but gave\\nsome strong evidence of his dislike of affairs\\nof exchange within them. And yet there\\nmight surely be a heroism in such affairs and\\nall commerce become a kind of selling of doves\\nnot impious. The wonder has always been\\ngreat to me, that heroism has never been sup-\\nposed to be in anywise consistent with the\\npractice of supplying people with food, or\\nclothes; but rather with that of quartering\\noneself upon them for food, and stripping\\nthem of their clothes. Spoiling of armor is\\nan heroic deed in all ages; but the selling of\\nclothes, old or new, has never taken any color\\nof magnanimity. Yet one does not see why\\nfeeding the hungry and clothing the naked", "height": "3778", "width": "2300", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nshould ever become base businesses, even\\nwhen engaged in on a large scale. If one could\\ncontrive to attach the notion of conquest to\\nthem anyhow? so that, supposing there were\\nanywhere an obstinate race, who refused to be\\ncomforted, one might take some pride in giv-\\ning them compulsory comfort; and as it were,\\noccupying a country with one s gifts, in-\\nstead of one s armies? If one could only con-\\nsider it as much a victory to get a barren field\\nsown, as to get an earned field stripped and\\ncontend who should build villages, instead of\\nwho should carry them. Are not all forms\\nof heroism conceivable in doing these service-\\nable deeds? You doubt who is strongest? It\\nmight be ascertained by push of spade, as well\\nas push of sword. Who is wisest? There are\\nwitty things to be thought of in planning other\\nbusiness than campaigns. Who is bravest?\\nThere are always the elements to fight with,\\nstronger than men and nearly as merciless.\\nThe only absolutely and unapproachably heroic\\nelement in the soldier s work seems to be that\\nhe is paid little for it and regularly while\\nyou traffickers, and exchangers, and others oc-\\ncupied in presumably benevolent business, like\\nto be paid much for it and by chance. I\\nnever can make out how it is that a knight-", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 105\\nerrant does not expect to be paid for his\\ntrouble, but a pedler-errant always does; that\\npeople are willing to take hard knocks for\\nnothing, but never to sell ribbons cheap;\\nthat they are ready to go on fervent crusades j\\nto recover the tomb of a buried God, never on/\\nany travels to fulfill the orders of a living!\\nGod that they will go anywhere barefoot to\\npreach their faith, but must be well bribed to\\npractice it, and are perfectly ready to give the\\nGospel gratis, but never the loaves and fishes. I\\nIf you choose to take the matter up on any\\nsuch soldierly principle, to do your commerce,\\nand your feeding of nations, for fixed salaries\\nand to be as particular about giving people the\\nbest food, and the best cloth, as soldiers are\\nabout giving them the best gunpowder, I\\ncould carve something for you on your ex-\\nchange worth looking at. But I can only at\\npresent suggest decorating its frieze with\\npendant purses; and making its pillars broad\\nat the base, for the sticking of bills. And in\\nthe innermost chambers of it there might be a\\nstatue of Britannia of the Market, who may\\nhave, perhaps advisably, a partridge for her\\ncrest, typical at once of her courage in fighting\\nfor noble ideas; and of her interest in game;\\nand round its neck the inscription in golden\\ns Crown", "height": "3777", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "106 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nletters, Perdix fovit quae non peperit.\\nThen, for her spear, she might have a weaver s\\nbeam and on her shield, instead of her Cross,\\nthe Milanese boar, semi-fleeced, with the town\\nof Gennesaret proper, in the field and the\\nlegend t4 In the best market/ and her corselet,\\nof leather, folded over her heart in the shape\\nof -a purse, with thirty slits in it for a piece of\\nmoney to go in at, on each day of the month.\\nAnd I doubt not but that people would come\\nto see your exchange, and its goddess, with\\napplause.\\nNevertheless, I want to point out to you cer-\\ntain strange characters in this goddess of yours.\\nShe differs from the great Greek and Mediaeval\\ndeities essentially in two things first, as to\\nthe continuance of her presumed power; sec-\\nondly, as to the extent of it.\\nist, as to the Continuance.\\nThe Greek Goddess of Wisdom gave contin-\\nual increase of wisdom, as the Christian Spirit\\nof Comfort (or Comforter) continual increase\\nof comfort. There was no question, with\\nthese, of any limit or cessation of function.\\nBut with your Agora Goddess, that is just the\\n*Jerem. xvii. (best in Septuagint and Vulgate). As\\nthe partridge, fostering what she brought not forth, so\\nhe that getteth riches not by right, shall leave them in\\nthe midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.", "height": "3832", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 107\\nmost important question. Getting on but\\nwhere to? Gathering together but how\\nmuch? Do you mean to gather always never\\nto spend? If so, I wish you joy of your god-\\ndess, for I am just as well off as you, without\\nthe trouble of worshipping her at all. But if\\nyou do not spend, somebody else will some-\\nbody else must. And it is because of this\\n(among many other such errors) that I have\\nfearlessly declared your so-called science of\\nPolitical Economy to be no science; because,\\nnamely, it has omitted the study of exactly\\nthe most important branch of the business\\nthe study of spending. For spend you must,\\nand as much as you make, ultimately. You\\ngather corn: will you bury England under a\\nheap of grain; or will you, when you have\\ngathered, finally eat? You gather gold: will\\nyou make your house-roofs of it, or pave\\nyour streets with it? That is still one\\nway of spending it. But if you keep it,\\nyou may get more, I ll give you more; I ll\\ngive you all the gold you want all you can\\nimagine if you can tell me what you ll do\\nwith it. You shall have thousands of gold\\npieces; thousands of thousands millions\\nmountains, of gold: where will you keep them?\\nWill you put an Olympus of silver upon a gold-", "height": "3773", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "108 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nen Pelion make Ossa like a wart? Do you\\nthink the rain and dew would then come down\\nto you, in the streams from such mountains,\\nmore blessedly than they will come down the\\nmountains which God has made for you, of\\nmoss and whinstone? But it is not gold that\\nyou want to gather! What is it? greenbacks? No;\\nnot those neither. What is it then is it writ-\\ning ciphers after a capital I? Cannot you prac-\\ntice writing ciphers, and write as many as you\\nwant? Write ciphers for an hour every morn-\\ning, in a big book, and say every evening, I am\\nworth all those naughts more than I was yester-\\nday. Won t that do? Well, what in the name\\nof Plutus is it you want? Not gold, not green-\\nbacks, not ciphers after a capital I? You will\\nhave to answer, after all, i4 No; we want, some-\\nhow or other, moneys worth. Well, what is\\nthat? Let your Goddess of Getting-on dis-\\ncover it, and let her learn to stay therein.\\nII. But there is another question to be asked\\nrespecting this Goddess of Getting-on. The\\nfirst was of the continuance of her power; the\\nsecond is of its extent.\\nPallas and the Madonna were supposed to\\nbe all the world s Pallas, and all the world s\\nMadonna. They could teach all men, and they\\ncould comfort all men. But, look strictly into", "height": "3858", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 109\\nthe nature of the power of your Goddess of\\nGetting-on; and you will find she is the God-\\ndess not of everybody s getting on but only\\nof somebody s getting on. This is a vital, or\\nrather deathful, distinction. Examine it in\\nyour own ideal of the state of national life\\nwhich this Goddess is to evoke and maintain.\\nI asked you what it was, when I was last here;\\nyou have never told me. Now, shall I try to\\ntell you?\\nYour ideal of human life then is, I think,\\nthat it should be passed in a pleasant undulat-\\ning world, with iron and coal everywhere un-\\nderneath it. On each pleasant bank of this\\nworld is to be a beautiful mansion, with two\\nwings, and stables, and coach-houses; a mod-\\nerately sized park; a large garden and hot-\\nhouses and pleasant carriage drives through\\nthe shrubberies. In this mansion are to live\\nthe favored votaries of the Goddess the Eng-\\nlish gentleman, with his gracious wife, and\\nhis beautiful family; always able to have the\\nboudoir and the jewels for the wife, and the\\nbeautiful ball-dresses for the daughters, and\\nhunters for the sons, and a shooting in the\\nHighlands for himself. At the bottom of the\\nbank, is to be the mill not less than a quarter\\nof a mile long, with a steam engine at each", "height": "3779", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "110 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nend, and two in the middle, and a chimney\\nthree hundred feet high. In this mill are to\\nbe in constant employment from eight hundred\\nto a thousand workers, who never drink, never\\nstrike, always go to church on Sunday, and\\nalways express themselves in respectful lan-\\nguage.\\nIs not that, broadly, and in the main fea-\\ntures, the kind of thing you propose to your-\\nselves? It is very pretty indeed seen from\\nabove, not at all so pretty, seen from below.\\nFor, observe, while to one family this deity is\\nindeed the Goddess of Getting- on, to a thou-\\nsand families she is the Goddess of not Get-\\nting-on. Nay, you say, they have all their\\nchance. Yes, so has every one in a lottery,\\nbut there must always be the same number of\\nblanks. Ah! but in a lottery it is not skill\\nand intelligence which take the lead, but blind\\nchance. What then do you think the old\\npractice, that they should take who have the\\npower, and they should keep who can, is less\\niniquitous, when the power has become power\\nof brains instead of fist? and that, though we\\nmay not take advantage of a child s or a\\nwoman s weakness, we may of a man s foolish-\\nness? Nay, but finally, work must be done,\\nand some one must be at the top, some one at", "height": "3820", "width": "2370", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. Ill\\nthe bottom. M Granted, my friends. Work\\nmust always be; and captains of work must\\nalways be and if you in the least remember\\nthe tone of any of my writings, you must know\\nthat they are thought unfit for this age, because\\nthey are insisting on need of government, and\\nspeaking with scorn of liberty. But I beg you\\nto observe that there is a wide difference\\nbetween being captains or governors of work,\\nand taking the profits of it. It does not fol-\\nlow, because you are general of an army, that\\nyou are to take all the treasure, or land, it\\nwins (if it fight for treasure or land) neither\\nbecause you are king of a nation, that you are\\nto consume all the profits of the nation s work.\\nReal kings, on the contrary, are known invari-\\nably by their doing quite the reverse of this,\\nby their taking the least possible quantity of\\nthe nation s work for themselves. There is\\nno test of real knighthood so infallible as that.\\nDoes the crowned creature live simply, bravely,\\nunostentatiously? probably he is a King.\\nDoes he cover his body with jewels, and his\\ntable with delicates? in all probability he is\\nnot a King. It is possible he may be, as Sol-\\nomon was; but that is when the nation shares\\nbis splendor with him. Solomon made gold,\\nnot only to be in his own palace as stones, but", "height": "3776", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "112 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nto be in Jerusalem as stones. But even so, for\\nthe most part, these splendid kinghoods expire\\nin ruin, and only the true kinghoods live, which\\nare of royal laborers who, both leading rough\\nlives, establish the true dynasties. Conclus-\\nively you will find that because you are king\\nof a nation, it does not follow that you are to\\ngather for yourself all the wealth of that\\nnation; neither, because you are king of a\\nsmall part of the nation, and lord over the\\nmeans of its maintenance over field, or mill,\\nor mine, are you to take all the produce of that\\npiece of the foundation of national existence\\nfor yourself.\\nYou will tell me I need not preach against\\nthese things, for I cannot mend them. No,\\ngood friends, I cannot; but you can, and you\\nwill or something else can and will. Do you\\nthink these phenomena are to stay always in\\ntheir present power or aspect? All history\\nshows, on the contrary, that to be the exact\\nthing they never can do. Change must come\\nbut it is ours to determine whether change of\\ngrowth, or change of death. Shall the\\nParthenon be in ruins on its rock, and Bolton\\npriory in its meadow, but these mills of yours\\nbe the consummation of the buildings of the\\nearth, and their wheels be as the wheels of", "height": "3847", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 113\\neternity? Think you that men may come,\\nand men may go, but mills go on forever?\\nNot so; out of these, better or worse shall\\ncome and it is for you to choose which.\\nI know that none of this wrong is done with\\ndeliberate purpose. I know, on the contrary,\\nthat you wish your workmen well that you do\\nmuch for them, and that you desire to do more\\nfor them, if you saw your way to it safely. I\\nknow that many of you have done, and are\\nevery day doing, whatever you feel to be in\\nyour power and that even all this wrong and\\nmisery are brought about by a warped sense of\\nduty, each of you striving to do his best, with-\\nout noticing that this best is essentially and\\ncentrally the best for himself, not for others.\\nAnd all this has come of the spreading of that\\nthrice accursed, thrice impious doctrine of the\\nmodern economist, that To do the best for\\nyourself, is finally to do the best for others.\\nFriends, our great Master said not so and most\\nabsolutely we shall find this world is not made\\nso. Indeed, to do the best for others, is finally\\nto do the best for ourselves but it will not do\\nto have our eyes fixed on that issue. The\\nPagans had got beyond that. Hear what a\\nPagan says of this matter; hear what were,\\nperhaps, the last written words of Plato, if", "height": "3780", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "114 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nnot the last actually written (for thirs we can-\\nnot know), yet assuredly in fact and power his\\nparting words in which, endeavoring to give\\nfull crowning and harmonious close to all his\\nthoughts, and to speak the sum of them by the\\nimagined sentence of the Great Spirit, his\\nstrength and his heart fail him, and the words\\ncease, broken off forever. It is the close of\\nthe dialogue called Critias, in which he\\ndescribes, partly from real tradition, partly in\\nideal dream, the early state of Athens and the\\ngenesis, and order, and religion, of the fabled\\nisle of Atlantis in which genesis he conceives\\nthe same first perfection and final degeneracy\\nof man, which in our own Scriptural tradition\\nis expressed by saying that the Sons of God\\nintermarried with the daughters of men, for he\\nsupposes the earliest race to have been indeed\\nthe children of God; and to have corrupted\\nthemselves, until their spot was not the spot\\nof his children. And this, he says, was the\\nend; that indeed through many generations,\\nso long as the God s nature in them yet was\\nfull, they were submissive to the sacred laws,\\nand carried themselves lovingly to all that had\\nkindred with them in divineness: for their\\nuttermost spirit was faithful and true, and in\\nevery wise great so that, in all meekness of", "height": "3833", "width": "2418", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 115\\nwisdom, they dealt with each other, and took\\nall the chances of life and despising all things\\nexcept virtue, they cared little what happened\\nday by day, and bore lightly the burden of\\ngold and of possessions for they saw that, if\\nonly their common love and virtue increased,\\nall these things would be increased together\\nwith them but to set their esteem and ardent\\npursuit upon material possession would be to\\nlose that first, and their virtue and affection\\ntogether with it. And by such reasoning, and\\nwhat of the divine nature remained in them,\\nthey gained all this greatness of which we have\\nalready told; but when the God s part of them\\nfaded and became extinct, being mixed again\\nand again, and effaced by the prevalent mor-\\ntality; and the human nature at last exceeded,\\nthey then became unable to endure the\\ncourses of fortune and fell into shapelessness\\nof life, and baseness in the sight of him who\\ncould see, having lost everything that was\\nfairest of their honor while to the blind hearts\\nwhich could not discern the true life, tending\\nto happiness, it seemed that they were then\\nchiefly noble and happy, being filled with all\\niniquity of inordinate possession and power.\\nWhereupon, the God of Gods, whose Kingdom\\nis in laws, beholding a once just nation thus", "height": "3785", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "116 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ncast into misery, and desiring to lay such pun-\\nishment upon them as might make them repent\\ninto restraining, gathered together all the gods\\ninto his dwelling-place, which from heaven s\\ncenter overlooks whatever has part in creation;\\nand having assembled them, he said\\nThe rest is silence. So ended are the last\\nwords of the chief wisdom of the heathen,\\nspoken of this idol of riches; this idol of yours;\\nthis golden image high by measureless cubits,\\nset up where your green fields of England are\\nfurnace-burnt into the likeness of the plain of\\nDura: this idol, forbidden to us, first of all\\nidols, by your own Master and faith; forbid-\\nden to us also by every human lip that has\\never, in any age or people, been accounted of\\nas able to speak according to the purposes of\\nGod. Continue to make that forbidden deity\\nyour principle one, and soon no more art, no\\nmore science, no more pleasure will be pos-\\nsible. Catastrophe will come; or worse than\\ncatastrophe, slow mouldering and withering\\ninto Hades. But if you can fix some concep-\\ntion of a true human state of life to be striven\\nfor life for all men as for yourselves if you\\ncan determine some honest and simple order\\nof existence; following those trodden ways of\\nwisdom, which are pleasantness, and seeking", "height": "3857", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 117\\nher quiet and withdrawn paths, which are\\npeace; then, and so sanctifying wealth into\\n4 commonwealth, all your art, your literature,\\nyour daily labors, your domestic affection,\\nand citizen s duty, will join and increase into\\none magnificent harmony. You will know\\nthen how to build, well enough you will build\\nwith stone well, but with flesh better; temples\\nnot made with hands, but riveted of hearts;\\nand that kind of marble, crimson-veined, is\\nindeed eternal.", "height": "3758", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3855", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "LECTURE III.\\nWAR.\\n119", "height": "3780", "width": "2237", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3794", "width": "2316", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "Ragged canvas mixed up with the laths. Page 123.\\nCrown of Wild Olive.", "height": "3794", "width": "2316", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3828", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "LECTURE III.\\nWAR.\\n(Delivered at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.)\\nYoung soldiers, I do not doubt but that\\nmany of you came unwillingly to-night, and\\nmany in merely contemptuous curiosity, to hear\\nwhat a writer on painting could possibly say,\\nor would venture to say, respecting your great\\nart of war. You may well think within your-\\nselves, that a painter might, perhaps without\\nimmodesty, lecture younger painters upon\\npainting, but not young lawyers upon law, nor\\nyoung physicians upon medicine least of all,\\nit may seem to you, young warriors upon war.\\nAnd, indeed, when I was asked to address\\nyou, I declined at first, and declined long; for\\nI felt that you would not be interested in my\\nspecial business, and would certainly think\\nthere was small need for me to come to teach\\nyou yours. Nay, I knew that there ought to\\nbe no such need, for the great veteran soldiers\\nof England are now men every way so thought-\\nful, so noble, and so good, that no other teach-\\ning than their knightly example, and their few\\n121", "height": "3783", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "122 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nwords of grave and tried counsel should be\\neither necessary for you, or even, without\\nassurance of due modesty in the offerer, en-\\ndured by you.\\nBut being asked, not once nor twice, I have\\nnot ventured persistently to refuse and I will\\ntry, in very few words, to lay before you some\\nreason why you should accept my excuse and\\nhear me patiently. You may imagine that\\nyour work is wholly foreign to, and separate\\nfrom mine. So far from that, all the pure and\\nnoble arts of peace are founded on war; no\\ngreat art ever yet rose on earth, but among a\\nnation of soldiers. There is no art among a\\nshepherd people, if it remains at peace.\\nThere is no art among an agricultural people,\\nif it remains at peace. Commerce is barely\\nconsistent with fine art; but cannot produce\\nit. Manufacture not only is unable to produce\\nit, but invariably destroys whatever seeds of\\nit exist. There is no great art possible to a\\nnation but that which is based on battle.\\nNow, though I hope you love fighting for its\\nown sake, you must, I imagine, be surprised\\nat my assertion that there is any such good\\nfruit of fighting. You supposed, probably,\\nthat your office was to defend the works of\\npeace, but certainly not to found them nay,", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 123\\nthe common course of war, you may have\\nthought, was only to destroy them. And\\ntruly, I who tell you this of the use of war,\\nshould have been the last of men to tell you\\nso, had I trusted my own experience only.\\nHear why I have given a considerable part of\\nmy life to the investigation of Venetian paint-\\ning; and the result of that inquiry was my fix-\\ning upon one man as the greatest of all Vene-\\ntians, and therefore, as I believed, of all paint-\\ners, whatsoever. I formed this faith (whether\\nright or wrong matters at present nothing),\\nin the supremacy of the painter Tintoret, un-\\nder a roof covered with his pictures and of\\nthose pictures, three of the noblest were then\\nin the form of ragged canvas, mixed up with\\nthe laths of the roof, rent through by three\\nAustrian shells. Now it is not every lecturer\\nwho could tell you that he had seen three of\\nhis favorite pictures torn to rags by bomb-\\nshells. And after such a sight, it is not every\\nlecturer who would tell you that, neverthe-\\nless, war was the foundation of all great art.\\nYet the conclusion is inevitable, from any\\ncareful comparison of the states of great his-\\ntoric races at different periods. Merely to\\nshow you what I mean, I will sketch for you,\\nvery briefly, the broad steps of the advance ot", "height": "3783", "width": "2232", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthe best art of the world. The first dawn of\\nit is in Egypt and the power of it is founded\\non the perpetual contemplation of death, and\\nof future judgment, by the mind of a nation\\nof which the ruling caste were priests, and the\\nsecond, soldiers. The greatest works pro-\\nduced by them are sculptures of their kings\\ngoing out to battle, or receiving the homage\\nof conquered armies. And you must remem-\\nber also, as one of the great keys to the splen-\\ndor of the Egyptian nation, that the priests\\nwere not occupied in theology only. Their\\ntheology was the basis of practical government\\nand law; so that they were not so much\\npriests as religious judges: the office of\\nSamuel, among the Jews, being as nearly as\\npossible correspondent to theirs.\\nAll the rudiments of art then, and much\\ntaore than the rudiments of all science, are\\nlaid first by this great warrior-nation, which\\nheld in contempt all mechanical trades, and in\\nabsolute hatred the peaceful life of shepherds.\\nProm Egypt art passes directly into Greece,\\nWhere all poetry, and all painting, are noth-\\ning else than the description, praise, or dra-\\nmatic representation of war or of the exercises\\nwhich prepare for it, in their connection with\\noffices of religion. All Greek institutions had", "height": "3853", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 125\\nfirst respect to war; and their conception of it,\\nas one necessary office of all human and divine\\nlife, is expressed simply by the images of their\\nguiding gods. Apollo is the god of all wisdom\\nof the intellect he bears the arrow and the\\nbow, before he bears the lyre. Again, Athena\\nis the goddess of all wisdom in conduct. It is\\nby the helmet and the shield, oftener than\\nby the shuttle, that she is distinguished from\\nother deities.\\nThere were, however, two great differences\\nin principle between the Greek and the Egyp-\\ntian theories of policy. In Greece there was\\nno soldier caste every citizen was necessarily a\\nsoldier. And, again, while the Greeks rightly\\ndespised mechanical arts as much as the Egyp-\\ntians, they did not make the fatal mistake of\\ndespising agricultural and pastoral life; but\\nperfectly honored both. These two conditions\\nof truer thought raise them quite into the\\nhighest rank of wise manhood that has yet\\nbeen reached; for all our great arts, and\\nnearly all our great thoughts, have been bor-\\nrowed or derived from them. Take away\\nfrom us what they have given; and I can\\nhardly imagine how low the modern European\\nwould stand.\\nNow, you are to remember, in passing to", "height": "3778", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "126 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthe next phase of history, that though you\\nmust have war to produce art you must also\\nhave much more than war; namely, an art-in-\\nstinct or genius in the people; and that,\\nthough all the talent for painting in the world\\nwon t make painters of you, unless you have a\\ngift for fighting, and none for painting. Now,\\nin the next great dynasty of soldiers, the art-\\ninstinct is wholly wanting. I have not yet in-\\nvestigated the Roman character enough to tell\\nyou the causes of this but I believe, para-\\ndoxical as it may seem to you, that, however\\ntruly the Roman might say of himself that he\\nwas born of Mars, and suckled by the wolf,\\nhe was nevertheless, at heart, more of a far-\\nmer than a soldier. The exercises of war\\nwere with him practical, not poetical; his\\npoetry was in domestic life only, and the ob-\\nject of battle, pacis imponere morem. And\\nthe arts are extinguished in his hands, and do\\nnot rise again, until, with Gothic chivalry,\\nthere comes back into the mind of Europe a\\npassionate delight in war itself, for the sake\\nof war. And then, with the romantic knight-\\nhood which can imagine no other noble em-\\nployment, under the fighting kings of France,\\nEngland, and Spain and under the fighting\\ndukeships and citizenships of Italy, art is born", "height": "3827", "width": "2373", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 127\\nagain, and rises to her height in the great val-\\nleys of Lombardy and Tuscany, through\\nwhich there flows not a single stream, from\\nall their Alps or Apennines, that did not once\\nrun dark red from battle; and it reaches its\\nculminating glory in the city which gave to\\nhistory the most intense type of soldiership\\nyet seen among men the city whose armies\\nwere led in their assault by their king, led\\nthrough it to victory by their king, and so led,\\nthough that king of theirs was blind, and in\\nthe extremity of his age.\\nAnd from this time forward, as peace is\\nestablished or extended in Europe, the arts\\ndecline. They reach an unparalleled pitch of\\ncostliness, but lose their life, enlist themselves\\nat last on the side of luxury and various cor-\\nruption, and, among wholly tranquil nations,\\nwither utterly away remaining only in partial\\npractice among races who, like the French and\\nus, have still the minds, though we cannot all\\nlive the lives, of soldiers.\\nIt may be so, I can suppose that a philan-\\ntrophist might exclaim. Perish then the\\narts, if they can flourish only at such a cost.\\nWhat worth is there in toys of canvas and\\nstone, if compared to the joy and peace of art-\\nless domestic life? And the answer is truly,", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "128 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nin themselves, none. But as expressions of\\nthe highest state of the human spirit, their\\nworth is infinite. As results they may be\\nworthless, but, as signs, they are above price.\\nFor it is an assured truth that, whenever the\\nfaculties of men are at their fulness, they must\\nexpress themselves by art and to say that a\\nstate is without such expression, is to say that\\nit is sunk from its proper level of manly\\nnature. So that, when I tell you that war is\\nthe foundation of all the arts, I mean also that\\nit is the foundation of all the high virtues and\\nfaculties of men.\\nIt was very strange to me to discover this;\\nand very dreadful but I saw it to be quite an\\nundeniable fact. The common notion that\\npeace and the virtues of civil life flourished to-\\ngether, I found to be wholly untenable. Peace\\nand the vices of civil life only flourish to-\\ngether. We talk of peace and learning, and\\nof peace and plenty, and of peace and civiliza-\\ntion but I found that those were not the\\nwords which the Muse of History coupled to-\\ngether that on her lips, the words were\\npeace and sensuality, peace and selfishness,\\npeace and corruption, peace and death. I\\nfound, in brief, that all great nations learned\\ntheir truth of word, and strength of thought,", "height": "3851", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 129\\nin war; that they were nourished in war, and\\nwasted by peace taught by war, and deceived\\nby peace; trained by war and betrayed by\\npeace; in a word, that they were born in war\\nand expired in peace.\\nYet now note carefully, in the second place,\\nit is not all war of which this can be said nor\\nall dragon s teeth, which, sown, will start up\\ninto men. It is not the ravage of a barbarian\\nwolf-flock, as under Genseric or Suwarrow;\\nnor the habitual restlessness and rapine of\\nmountaineers, as on the old borders of Scot-\\nland nor the occasional struggle of a strong\\npeaceful nation for its life, as in the wars of\\nthe Swiss with Austria, nor the contest of\\nmerely ambitious nations for extent of power,\\nas in the wars of France under Napoleon, or\\nthe just terminated war in America. None of\\nthese forms of war build anything but tombs.\\nBut the creative or foundational war is that in\\nwhich the natural restlessness and love of con-\\ntest among men are disciplined, by consent,\\ninto modes of beautiful though it may be\\nfatal play; in which the natural ambition and\\nlove of power of men are disciplined into the\\naggressive conquest of surrounding evil and\\nin which the natural instincts of self-defense\\nare sanctified by the nobleness of the institu-\\n9 Crown", "height": "3787", "width": "2255", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "130 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ntions, and purity of the households, which they\\nare appointed to defend. To such war as this\\nall men are born in such war as this any man\\nmay happily die and forth from such war as\\nthis have arisen throughout the extent of past\\nages, all the highest sanctities and virtues of\\nhumanity.\\nI shall therefore divide the war of which I\\nwould speak to you into three heads. War for\\nexercise or play war for dominion and war\\nfor defense.\\nI. And first, of war for exercise or play. I\\nspeak of it primarily in this light, because\\nthrough all past history, manly war has been\\nmore an exercise than anything else, among\\nthe classes who cause, and proclaim it. It is\\nnot a game to the conscript, or the pressed\\nsailor; but neither of these are the causers of\\nit. To the governor who determines that war\\nshall be, and to the youths who voluntarily\\nadopt it as their profession, it has always been\\na grand pastime and chiefly pursued because\\nthey had nothing else to do. And this is true\\nwithout any exception. No king whose mind\\nwas fully occupied with the development of\\nthe inner resources of his kingdom, or with\\nany other sufficing subject of thought, ever\\nentered into war but on compulsion. No youth", "height": "3848", "width": "2386", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 131\\nwho was earnestly busy with any peaceful sub-\\nject of study, or set on any serviceable course\\nof action, ever voluntarily became a soldier.\\nOccupy him early, and wisely, in agriculture\\nor business, in science or in literature, and he\\nwill never think of war otherwise than as a\\ncalamity. But leave him idle and, the more\\nbrave and active and capable he is by nature,\\nthe more he will thirst for some appointed field\\nfor action and find, in the passion and peril\\nof battle, the only satisfying fulfilment of his\\nunoccupied being. And from the earliest in-\\ncipient civilization until now, the population of\\nthe earth divides itself, when you look at it\\nwidely, into two races; one of workers, and\\nthe other of players one tilling the ground,\\nmanufacturing, building, and otherwise pro-\\nviding for the necessities of life the other\\npart proudly idle, and continually therefore\\nneeding recreation, in which they use the pro-\\nductive and laborious orders partly as their\\ncattle and partly as their puppets or pieces in\\nthe game of death.\\nNow, remember, whatever virtue or goodli-\\nness there may be in this game of war, rightly\\nplayed, there is none when you thus play it\\nwith a multitude of small human pawns.\\nIf you, the gentlemen of this or any other", "height": "3783", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "132 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nkingdom, choose to make your pastime of con-\\ntest, do so, and welcome; but set not up these\\nunhappy peasant-pieces upon the green fielded\\nboard. If the wager is to be of death, lay it\\non your own heads, not theirs. A goodly strug-\\ngle in the Olympic dust, though it be the dust\\nof the grave, the gods w r ill look upon, and be\\nwith you in, but they will not be with you, if\\nyou sit on the sides of the amphitheater, whose\\nsteps are the mountains of earth, whose arena\\nits valleys, to urge your peasant millions into\\ngladiatorial war. J You also, you tender and\\ndelicate women, for whom, and by whose com-\\nmand, all true battle has been, and must ever\\nbe you would perhaps shrink now, though you\\nneed not, from the thought of sitting as queens\\nabove set lists where the jousting game might\\nbe mortal. How much more, then, ought you\\nto shrink from the thought of sitting above a\\ntheater pit in which even a few condemned\\nslaves were slaying each other only for your\\ndelight. And do you not shrink from the fact\\nof sitting above a theater pit, where, not\\ncondemned slaves, but the best and bravest\\nof the poor sons of your people, slay each\\nother, not man to man, as the coupled glad-\\niators; but race to race, in duel of generations?\\nYou would tell me, perhaps, that you do not", "height": "3856", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 133\\nsit to see this; and it is indeed true, that the\\nwomen of Europe those who have no heart-\\ninterest of their own at peril in the contest\\ndraw the curtains of their boxes, and muffle\\nthe openings; so that from the pit of the circus\\nof slaughter there may reach them only at inter-\\nvals a half-heard cry and a murmur as of the\\nwind s sighing, when myriads of souls expire.\\nThey shut out the death-cries; and are happy,\\nand talk wittily among themselves. That is\\nthe utter literal fact of what our ladies do in\\ntheir pleasant lives.\\nNay, you might answer, speaking for them\\nWe do not let these wars come to pass for\\nour play, nor by our carelessness; we cannot\\nhelp them. How can any final quarrel of na-\\ntions be settled otherwise than by war? I\\ncannot now delay, to tell you how political\\nquarrels might be otherwise settled. But\\ngrant that they cannot. Grant that no law of\\nreason can be understood by nations no law\\nof justice submitted to by them; and that,\\nwhile questions of a few acres, and of petty\\ncash, can be determined by truth and equity,\\nthe questions which are to issue in the perish-\\ning or saving of kingdoms can be determined\\nonly by the truth of the sword, and the equity\\nof the rifle. Grant this, and even then, judge", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "134 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nif it will always be necessary for you to put\\nyour quarrel into the hearts of your poor, and\\nsign your treaties with peasants blood. You\\nwould be ashamed to do this in your own pri-\\nvate position and power. Why should you not\\nbe ashamed also to do it in public place and\\npower? If you quarrel with your neighbor,\\nand the quarrel be indeterminable by law, and\\nmortal, you and he do not send your footmen\\nto Battersea fields to fight it out; nor do you\\nset fire to his tenants cottages, nor spoil their\\ngoods. You fight our your quarrel yourselves,\\nand at your own danger, if at all. And you do\\nnot think it materially affects the arbitrament\\nthat one of you has a larger household than\\nthe other so that, if the servants or tenants\\nwere brought into the field with their masters,\\nthe issue of the contest could not be doubtful?\\nYou either refuse the private duel, or you\\npractice it under laws of honor, not of physical\\nforce; that so it may be, in a manner, justly\\nconcluded. Now the just or unjust conclusion\\nof the private feud is of little moment, while\\nthe just or unjust conclusion of the public feud\\nis of eternal moment; and yet, in this public\\nquarrel, you take your servants sons from\\ntheir arms to fight for it, and your servants\\nfood from their lips to support it; and the", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 135\\nblack seals on the parchment of your treaties of\\npeace are the deserted hearth and the fruit-\\nless field. There is a ghastly ludicrousness in\\nthis, as there is mostly in these wide and uni-\\nversal crimes. Hear the statement of the very\\nfact of it in the most literal words of the great-\\nest of our English thinkers\\nWhat, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the\\nnet-purport and upshot of war? To my own knowl-\\nedge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British\\nvillage of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls.\\nFrom these, by certain natural enemies of the French,\\nthere are successively selected, during the French war,\\nsay thirty able-bodied men. Dumdrudge, at her own\\nexpense, has suckled and nursed them; she has, not\\nwithout difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood,\\nand ever trained them to crafts, so that one can weave,\\nanother build, another hammer, and the weakest can\\nstand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless,\\namid much weeping and swearing, they are selected\\nall dressed in red, and shipped away, at the public\\ncharges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the\\nsouth of Spain, and fed there till wanted.\\nAnd now to that same spot in the south of Spain are\\nthirty similar French artisans, from a French Dum-\\ndrudge, in like manner wending till at length, after in-\\nfinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtapose\\ntion; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a\\ngun in his hand.\\nStraightway the word Fire! is given, and they blow\\nthe souls out of one another, and in place of sixty brisk\\nuseful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses,", "height": "3785", "width": "2400", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "136 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nwhich it must bury, and anon shed tears for. Had\\nthese men any quarrel? Busy as the devil is, not the\\nsmallest! They lived far enough apart; were the\\nentirest strangers; nay, in so wide a universe, there\\nwas even unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual\\nhelpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton!\\ntheir governors had fallen out and instead of shooting\\none another, had the cunning to make these poor block-\\nheads shoot. (Sartor Resartus.)\\nPositively, then, gentlemen, the game of\\nbattle must not, and shall not, ultimately be\\nplayed this way. But should it be played any\\nway? Should it, if not by your servants, be\\npracticed by yourselves? I think, yes. Both\\nhistory and human instinct seem alike to say,\\nyes. All healthy men like fighting, and like\\nthe sense of danger all brave women like to\\nhear of their fighting, and of their facing dan-\\nger. This is a fixed instinct in the fine race of\\nthem; and I cannot help fancying that fair\\nfight is the best play for them and that a tour-\\nnament was a better game than a steeple-\\nchase. The time may perhaps come in France\\nas well as here, for universal hurdle-races and\\ncricketing; but I do not think universal ll crick-\\nets will bring out the best qualities of the\\nnobles of either country. I use, in such ques-\\ntion, the test which I have adopted, of the con-\\nnection of war with other arts; and I reflect", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 137\\nhow, as a sculptor, I should feel, if I were\\nasked to design a monument for a dead knight,\\nin Westminster Abbey, with a carving of a bat\\nat one end, and a ball at the other. It may be\\nthe remains in me only of savage Gothic preju-\\ndice but I had rather carve it with a shield at\\none end, and a sword at the other. And this,\\nobserve, with no reference whatever to any\\nstory of duty done, or cause defended. As-\\nsume the knight merely to have ridden out oc-\\ncasionally to get his neighbor for exercise;\\nassume him even a soldier of fortune, and to\\nhave gained his bread, and filled his purse, at\\nthe sword s point. Still I feel as if it were,\\nsomehow, grander and worthier in him to\\nhave made his bread by sword play than any\\nother play I had rather he had made it by\\nthrusting than batting; much more, than by\\nbetting. Much rather that he should ride war\\nhorses, than back race horses, and I say it\\nsternly and deliberately much rather would I\\nhave him slay his neighbor, than cheat him.\\nBut remember, so far as this may be true,\\nthe game of war is only that in which the full\\npersonal power of the human creature is\\nbrought out in management of its weapons.\\nAnd this for three reasons\\nFirst, the great justification of this game is\\n10 Crown", "height": "3779", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "188 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthat it truly, when well played, determines\\nwho is the best man who is the highest bred,\\nthe most self-denying, the most fearless, the\\ncoolest of nerve, the swiftest of eye and hand.\\nYou cannot test these qualities wholly, unless\\nthere is a clear possibility of the struggle s\\nending in death. It is only in the fronting of\\nthat condition that the full trial of the man,\\nsoul and body, comes out. You may go to\\nyour game of wickets, or of hurdles, or of\\ncards, and any knavery that is in you may stay\\nunchallenged all the while. But if the play\\nmay be ended at any moment by a lance-\\nthrust, a man will probably make up his ac-\\ncounts a little before he enters it. Whatever\\nis rotten and evil in him will weaken his hand\\nmore in holding a sword hilt, than in balancing\\na billiard cue and, on the whole, the habit of\\nliving lightly hearted, in daily presence of\\ndeath, always has had, and must have, a ten-\\ndency both to the making and testing of hon-\\nest men. But for the final testing, observe,\\nyou must make the issue of battle strictly de-\\npendent on fineness of frame, and firmness of\\nhand. You must not make it the question,\\nwhich of the combatants has the longest gun,\\nor which has got behind the biggest tree, or\\nwhich has the wind in his face, or which has", "height": "3850", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 139\\ngunpowder made by best chemists, or iron\\nsmelted with the best coal, or the angriest\\nmob at his back. Decide your battle, whether\\nof nations, or individuals, on those terms\\nand you have only multiplied confusion, and\\nadded slaughter to iniquity. But decide your\\nbattle by pure trial which has the strongest\\narm, and steadiest heart, and you have gone\\nfar to decide a great many matters besides,,\\nand to decide them rightly.\\nAnd the other reasons for this mode of deci-\\nsion of cause, are the diminution both of the\\nmaterial destructiveness, or cost, and of the\\nphysical distress of war. For you must not\\nthink that in speaking to you in this (as you\\nmay imagine) fantastic praise of battle, I have\\noverlooked the conditions weighing against\\nme. I pray all of you, who have not read, to\\nread with the most earnest attention, Mr.\\nHelps two essays on War and Government,\\nin the first volume of the last series of\\nil Friends in Counsel. Everything that can\\nbe urged against war is there simply, exhaus-\\ntively, and most graphically stated. And all,\\nthere urged, is true. But the two great counts\\nof evil alleged against war by this most\\nthoughtful writer, hold only against modern\\nwar. If you have to take away masses of men", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "140 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nfrom all industrial employment, to feed them\\nhj the labor of others, to move them and pro-\\nvide them with destructive machines, varied\\ndaily in national rivalship of inventive cost if\\nyou have to ravage the country which you at-\\ntack, to destroy for a score of future years,\\nits roads, its woods, its cities, and its harbors;\\nand if, finally, having brought masses of men,\\n-counted by hundreds of thousands, face to face,\\nyou tear those masses to pieces with jagged\\nshot, and leave the fragments of living crea-\\ntures, countlessly beyond all help of surgery,\\nto starve and parch, through days of torture,\\ndown into clots of clay what book of accounts\\nshall record the cost of your work; What\\nbook of judgment sentence the guilt of it?\\nThat, I say, is modern war, scientific war,\\nchemical and mechanic war, worse even\\nthan the savage s poisoned arrow. And yet\\nyou will tell me, perhaps, that any other war\\nthan this is impossible now. It may be so;\\nthe progress of science cannot, perhaps, be\\n-otherwise registered than by new facilities of\\ndestruction; and the brotherly love of our\\nenlarging Christianity be only proved by mul-\\ntiplication of murder. Yet hear, for a moment,\\nwhat war was, in Pagan and ignorant days\\nwhat war might yet be, if we could extinguish", "height": "3850", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 141\\nour science in darkness, and join the heathen s,\\npractice to the Christian s theory. I read yoti\\nthis from a book which probably most of yott\\nknow well, and all ought to know Muller s\\nDorians; but I have put the points 1 wish\\nyou to remember in closer connection than in\\nhis text.\\nThe chief characteristic of the warriors of\\nSparta was great composure and subdued\\nstrength; the violence of Aristodemus and\\nIsadas being considered as deserving rather of\\nblame than praise; and these qualities in\\ngeneral distinguished the Greeks from the\\nnorthern Barbarians, whose boldness always\\nconsisted in noise and tumult. For the same\\nreason the Spartans sacrificed to the Muses;\\nbefore an action; these goddesses being ex*\\npected to produce regularity and order in\\nbattle as they sacrificed on the same occasion\\nin Crete to the god of love, as the confirmer of\\nmutual esteem and shame. Every man put\\non a crown, when the band of flute-players\\ngave the signal for attack; all the shields of\\nthe line glittered with their high polish, and\\nmingled their splendor with the dark red of\\nthe purple mantles, which were meant both to\\nadorn the combatant, and to conceal the bl6od\\nof the wounded; to fall well and decorously", "height": "3786", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "142 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nbeing an incentive the more to the most heroic\\nvalor. The conduct of the Spartans in battle\\ndenotes a high and noble disposition, which\\nrejected all the extremes of brutal rage. The\\npursuit of the enemy ceased when the victory\\nwas completed and after the signal for retreat\\nhad been given, all hostilities ceased. The\\nspoiling of arms, at least during the battle,\\nwas also interdicted; and the consecration of\\nthe spoils of slain enemies to the gods, as, in\\ngeneral, all rejoicings for victory, were con-\\nsidered as ill-omened.\\nSuch was the war of the greatest soldiers who\\nprayed to heathen gods. What Christian war\\nis, preached by Christian ministers, let any\\none tell you who saw the sacred crowning, and\\nheard the sacred flute-playing, and was\\ninspired and sanctified by the divinely-meas-\\nured and musical language, of any North\\nAmerican regiment preparing for its charge.\\nAnd what is the relative cost of life in Pagan\\nand Christian wars, let this one fact tell you:\\nthe Spartans won the decisive battle of\\nCorinth with the loss of eight men the victors\\nat indecisive Gettysburg confess to the loss of\\n30,000.\\nII. I pass now to our second order of\\nwar, the commonest among men, that under-", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 143\\ntaken in desire of dominion. And let me ask\\nyou to think for a few moments what the real\\nmeaning of this desire of dominion is first in\\nthe minds of kings then in that of nations.\\nNow, mind you this first, that I speak either\\nabout kings, or masses of men, with a fixed\\nconviction that human nature is a noble and\\nbeautiful thing; not a foul nor a base thing.\\nAll the sin of men I esteem as their disease,\\nnot their nature as a folly which may be pre-\\nvented, not a necessity which must be accepted.\\nAnd my wonder, even when things are at their\\nworst, is always at the height which this\\nhuman nature can attain. Thinking it high, I\\nfind it always a higher thing than I thought it\\nwhile those who think it low, find it, and will\\nfind it, always lower than they thought it the\\nfact being, that it is infinite, and capable of\\ninfinite height and infinite fall; but the\\nnature of it and here is the faith which I\\nwould have you hold with me the nature of it\\nis in the nobleness, not in the catastrophe.\\nTake the faith in its utmost terms. When\\nthe captain of the London* shook hands with\\nhis mate saying God speed you! I will go\\ndown with my passengers, that I believe to\\nbe human nature. He does not do it from\\nany religious motive from any hope of reward,", "height": "3783", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "144 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\npr any fear of punishment he does it because\\nhe is a man. But when a mother, living\\namong the fair fields of merry England, gives\\nher two-year-old child to be suffocated under a\\nmattress in her inner room, while the said\\nmother waits and talks outside that I believe\\nto be not human nature. You have the two\\nextremes there, shortly. And you, men, and\\nmothers, who are here face to face with me\\nto-night, I call upon you to say which of these\\nis human, and which is inhuman which\\nnatural, and which unnatural? Choose\\nyour creed at once, I beseech you: choose\\nit with unshaken choice choose it forever.\\nWill you take, for foundation of act and hope,\\nthe faith that this man was such as God made\\nhim or that this woman was such as God made\\nher? Which of them has failed from their\\nnature from their present, possible, actual\\nnature; not their nature of long ago, but\\ntheir nature of now? Which has betrayed it\\nfalsified it? Did the guardian who died in\\nhis trust die inhumanly, and as a fool; and\\ndid the murderess of her child fulfil the law\\nof her being? Choose, I say; infinitude of\\nchoices hang upon this. You have had false\\nprophets among you for centuries you have\\nhad them solemnly warned against them", "height": "3830", "width": "2378", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 145\\nthough you were; false prophets, who have\\ntold you that all men are nothing but fiends or\\nwolves, half beast, half devil. Believe that,\\nand indeed you may sink to that. But refuse\\nthat, and have faith that God made you up-\\nright, though you have sought out many\\ninventions; so you will strive daily to become\\nmore what your Maker meant and means you\\nto be, and daily gives you also the power to\\nbe and you will cling more and more to the\\nnobleness and virtue that is in you, saying,\\nMy righteousness I hold fast, and will not let\\nit go.\\nI have put this to you as a choice, as if you\\nmight hold either of these creeds you liked\\nbest. But there is in reality no choice for you\\nthe facts being quite easily ascertainable.\\nYou have no business to think about this mat-\\nter, or to choose in it. The broad fact is, that\\na human creature of the highest race, and\\nmost perfect as a human thing, is invariably\\nboth kind and true and that as you lower the\\nrace, you get cruelty and falseness, as you get\\ndeformity and this so steadily and assuredly,\\nthat the two great words which, in their first\\nuse, meant only perfection of race, have come,\\nby consequence of the invariable connection of\\nvirtue with the fine human nature both to\\n10", "height": "3785", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nsignify benevolence of disposition. The word\\ngenerous, and the word gentle, both, in their\\norigin, meant only of pure race/ but because\\ncharity and tenderness are inseparable from\\nthis purity of blood, the words which once\\nstood only for pride, now stand as synonyms\\nfor virtue.\\nNow, this being the true power of our\\ninherent humanity, and seeing that all the\\naim of education should be to develop this\\nand seeing also what magnificent self-sacrifice\\nthe higher classes of men are capable of, for\\nany cause that they understand or feel, it is\\nwholly inconceivable to me how well-educated\\nprinces, who ought to be of all gentlemen the\\ngentlest, and of all nobles the most generous,\\nand whose title of royalty means only their\\nfunction of doing every man 4 right* how\\nthese, I say, throughout history, should so\\nrarely pronounce themselves on the side of the\\npoor and of justice, but continually maintain\\nthemselves and their own interests by oppres-\\nsion of the poor, and by wrestling of justice\\nand how this should tie accepted as so natural,\\nthat the word loyalty, which means faithfulness\\nto law, is used as if it were only the duty of a\\npeople to be loyal to their king, and not the\\nduty of a king to be infinitely more loyal to his", "height": "3856", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 147\\npeople. How comes it to pass that a captain\\nwill die with his passengers, and lean over the\\ngunwale to give the parting boat its course\\nbut that a king will not usually die with, much\\nless for, his passengers, thinks it rather\\nincumbent on his passengers, in any number,\\nto die for him? Think, I beseech you, of the\\nwonder of this. The sea captain, not captain\\nby divine right, but only by company s\\nappointment not a man of royal descent, but\\nonly a plebeian who can steer; not with the\\neyes of the world upon him, but with feeble\\nchance, depending on one poor boat, of his name\\nbeing ever heard above the wash of the fatal\\nwaves not with the cause of a nation resting\\non his act, but helpless to save so much as a\\nchild from among the lost crowd with whom he\\nresolves to be lost, yet goes down quietly to\\nhis grave, rather than break his faith to these\\nfew emigrants. But your captain by divine\\nright, your captain with the hues of a hun-\\ndred shields of kings upon his breast, your\\ncaptain whose every deed, brave or base, will be\\nilluminated or branded forever before unes-\\ncapable eyes of men,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 your captain whose\\nevery thought and act are beneficent, or fatal,\\nfrom sunrising to setting, blessing as the sun-\\nshine, or shadowing as the night, this cap-", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "148 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ntain, as you find him in history, for the most\\npart thinks only how he may tax his passen-\\ngers, and sit at most ease in his state cabin\\nFor observe, if there had been indeed in the\\nhearts of the rulers of great multitudes of men\\nany such conception of work for the good of\\nthose under their command, as there is in the\\ngood and thoughtful masters of any small com-\\npany of men, not only wars for the sake of\\nmere increase of power could never take place,\\nbut our idea of power itself would be entirely\\naltered. Do you suppose that to think and\\nact even for a million of men, to hear their\\ncomplaint, watch their weaknesses, restrain\\ntheir vices, make laws for them, lead them,\\nday by day, to purer life, is not enough for\\none man s work? If any of us were absolute\\nlord only of a district of a hundred miles\\nsquare, and were resolved on doing our utmost\\nfor it; making it feed as large a number of\\npeople as possible making every clod produc-\\ntive, and every rock defensive, and every\\nhuman being happy; should we not have\\nenough on our hands think you? But if the\\nruler has any other aim than this if, careless\\nof the result of his interference, he desire only\\nthe authority to interfere and, regardless of\\nwhat is ill-done or well-done, cares only that it", "height": "3849", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 149\\nshall be done at his bidding; if he would\\nrather do two hundred miles space of mischief,\\nthan one hundred miles space of good, of\\ncourse he will try to add to his territory and\\nto add inimitably. But does he add to his\\npower? Do you call it power in a child, if he\\nis allowed to play with the wheels and bands\\nof some vast engine, pleased with their mur-\\nmur and whirl, till his unwise touch, wander-\\ning where it ought not, scatters beam and\\nwheel into ruin? Yet what machine is so vast,\\nso incognizable, as the working of the mind of\\na nation; what child s touch so wanton, as the\\nword of a selfish king? And yet, how long\\nhave we allowed the historian to speak of the\\nextent of the calamity a man causes, as a just\\nground for his pride and to extol him as the\\ngreatest prince, who is only the center of the\\nwidest error. Follow out this thought by\\nyourselves; and you will find that all power,\\nproperly so called, is wise and benevolent.\\nThere may be capacity in a drifting fire-ship\\nto destroy a fleet there may be venom enough\\nin a dead body to infect a nation but which\\nof you, the most ambitious, would desire a\\ndrifting kinghood, robed in consuming fire, or\\na poison-dipped scepter whose touch was mor-\\ntal? There is no true potency, remember, but", "height": "3787", "width": "2406", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "150 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthat of help; no true ambition, but ambition\\nto save.\\nAnd then, observe farther, this true power,\\nthe power of saving, depends neither on mul-\\ntitude of men, nor on extent of territory. We\\nare continually assuming that nations become\\nstrong according to their numbers. They in-\\ndeed become so, if those numbers can be made\\nof one mind but how are you sure you can\\nstay them in one mind, and keep them from\\nhaving north and south minds? Grant them\\nunanimous, how know you they will be unani-\\nmous in right? If they are unanimous in\\nwrong, the more they are, essentially the\\nweaker they are. Or, suppose that they can\\nneither be of one mind, nor of two minds, but\\ncan only be of no mind? Suppose they are a\\nmere helpless mob tottering into precipitant\\ncatastrophe, like a wagon load of stones when\\nthe wheel comes off. Dangerous enough for\\ntheir neighbors, certainly, but not i4 powerful.\\nNeither doest strength depend on extent of\\nterritory, any more than upon number of popu-\\nlation. Take up your maps when you go\\nhome this evening, put the cluster of British\\nIsles beside the mass of South America; and\\nthen consider whether any race of men need\\ncare how much ground they stand upon. The", "height": "3833", "width": "2367", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 151\\nstrength is in the men, and in their unity and\\nvirtue, not in their standing room: a little\\ngroup of wise hearts is better than a wilder-\\nness full of fools; and only that nation gains\\ntrue territory, which gains itself.\\nAnd now for the brief practical outcome of\\nall this. Remember, no government is ulti-\\nmately strong, but in proportion to its kind-\\nness and justice; and that a nation does not\\nstrengthen, by merely multiplying and diffus-\\ning itself. We have not strengthened, as yet,\\nby multiplying into America. Nay, even\\nwhen it has not to encounter the separating\\nconditions of emigration, a nation need not\\nboast itself of multiplying on its own ground,\\nif it multiplies only as flies or locusts do, with\\nthe god of flies for its god. It multiplies its\\nstrength only by increasing as one great fam-\\nily, in perfect fellowship and brotherhood.\\nAnd lastly, it does not strengthen itself by\\nseizing dominion over races whom it cannot\\nbenefit. Austria is not strengthened, but\\nweakened, by her grasp of Lombardy; and\\nwhatever apparent increase of majesty and of\\nwealth may have accrued to us from the pos-\\nsession of India, whether these prove to us\\nultimately power or weakness, depends wholly\\non the degree in which our influence on the", "height": "3782", "width": "2400", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "152 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nnative race shall be benevolent and exalting.\\nBut, as it is at their own peril that any race\\nextends their dominion in mere desire of\\npower, so it is at their own still greater peril\\nthat they refuse to undertake aggressive war,\\naccording to their force, whenever they are\\nassured that their authority would be helpful\\nand protective. Nor need you listen to any\\nsophistical objection of the impossibility of\\nknowing when a people s help is needed, or\\nwhen not. Make your national conscience\\nclean, and your national eyes will soon be\\nclear. No man who is truly ready to take part\\nin a noble quarrel will ever stand long in\\ndoubt by whom, or in what cause, his aid is\\nneeded. I hold it my duty to make no politi-\\ncal statement of any special bearing in this\\npresence *but I tell you broadly and boldly,\\nthat, within these last ten years, we English\\nhave, as a knightly nation, lost our spurs; we\\nhave fought where we should not have fought,\\nfor gain and we have been passive where we\\nshould not have been passive, for fear. I tell\\nyou that the principle of non-intervention, as\\nnow preached among us, is as selfish and\\ncruel as the worst frenzy of conquest, and\\ndiffers from it only by being not only malign-\\nant, but dastardly.", "height": "3860", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 153\\nI know, however, that my opinions on this\\nsubject differ too widely from those ordinarily\\nheld, to be any farther intruded upon you;\\nand therefore I pass lastly to examine the\\nconditions of the third kind of noble war\\nwar waged simply for the defense of the\\ncountry in which we were born, and for the\\nmaintenance and execution of her laws, by\\nwhomsoever threatened or defied. It is to this\\nduty that I suppose most men entering the\\narmy consider themselves in reality to be\\nbound, and I want you now to reflect what the\\nlaws of mere defense are and what the sol-\\ndier s duty, as now understood, or supposed to\\nbe understood. You have solemnly devoted\\nyourselves to be English soldiers, for the guar\\ndianship of England. I want you to feel what\\nthis vow of yours indeed means, or is gradually\\ncoming to mean. You take it upon you, first,\\nwhile you are sentimental schoolboys you go\\ninto your military convent, or barracks, just\\nas a girl goes into her convent while she is a\\nsentimental schoolgirl; neither of you then\\nknow what you are about, though both the\\ngood soldiers and good nuns make the best of\\nit afterward. You don t understand perhaps\\nwhy I call you sentimental schoolboys,\\nwhen you go into the army? Because, on the", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "154 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nwhole, it is love of adventure, of excitement,\\nof fine dress and of the pride of fame, a51\\nwhich are sentimental motives, which chiefly\\nmake a boy like going into the Guards better\\nthan into a counting house. You fancy, per-\\nhaps, that there is a severe sense ox duty\\nmixed with these peacocky motives? And in\\nthe best of you, there is but do not think that\\nit is principal. If you cared to do your duty\\nto your country in a prosaic and unsentimental\\nway, depend upon it, there is now truer duty\\nto be done in raising harvests, than in burn-\\ning them; more in building houses, than in\\nshelling them more in winning money by\\nyour own work, wherewith to help men, than\\nin taxing other people s work, for money\\nwherewith to slay men more duty, finally, in\\nhonest and unselfish living than in honest and\\nunselfish dying, though that seems to your\\nboys eyes the bravest. So far then, as for\\nyour own honor and the honor of your fam-\\nilies, you choose brave death in a red coat be-\\nfore brave life in a black one, you are senti-\\nmental and now see what this passionate vow\\nof yours comes to. For a little while you\\nride, and you hunt tigers or savages, you\\nshoot, and are shot; you are happy, and\\nproud, always, and honored and wept if you", "height": "3833", "width": "2371", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "THE GROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 155\\ndie and you are satisfied with your life, and\\nwith the end of it; believing, on the whole,\\nthat good rather than harm of it comes to\\nothers, and much pleasure to you. But as the\\nsense of duty enters into your forming minds,\\nthe vow takes another aspect. You find that\\nyou have put yourselves into the hand of your\\ncountry as a weapon. You have vowed to\\nstrike, when she bids you, and to stay scab-\\nbarded when she bids you all that you need\\nanswer for is, that you fail not in her graspo\\nAnd there is goodness in this, and greatness,\\nif you can trust the hand and heart of the\\nBritomart who has braced you to her side, and\\nare assured that when she leaves you sheathed\\nin darkness, there is no need for your flash to\\nthe sun. But remember, good and noble as\\nthis state may be, it is a state of slavery.\\nThere are different kinds of slaves and differ-\\nent masters. Some slaves are scourged to\\ntheir work by whips, others are scourged to it\\nby restlessness or ambition. It does not mat-\\nter what the whip is it is none the less a whip,\\nbecause you have cut thongs for it out of your\\nown souls the fact, so far, of slavery, is in\\nbeing driven to your work without thought, at\\nanother s bidding. Again, some slaves are\\nbought with money, and others with praise.", "height": "3787", "width": "2409", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "156 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nIt matters not what the purchase-money is.\\nThe distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a\\nprice, and be bought for it. Again, it mat-\\nters not what kind of work you are set on\\nsome slaves are set to forced diggings, others\\nto forced marches; some dig furrows, others\\nfield-work, and others graves. Some press the\\njuice of reeds, and some the juice of vines, and\\nsome the blood of men. The fact of the cap-\\ntivity is the same whatever work we are set\\nupon, though the fruits of the toil may be\\ndifferent. But, remember, in thus vowing\\nourselves to be the slaves of any master, it\\nought to be some subject of forethought with\\nus, what work he is likely to put us upon.\\nYou may think that the whole duty of a sol-\\ndier is to be passive, that it is the country you\\nhave left behind who is to command, and you\\nhave only to obey. But are you sure that you\\nhave left all your country behind, or that the\\npart of it you have so left is indeed the best\\npart of it? Suppose and, remember, it is\\nquite conceivable that you yourselves are in-\\ndeed the best part of England that you, who\\nhave become the slaves, ought to have been\\nthe masters and that those who are the mas-\\nters, ought to have been the slaves If it is a\\nnoble and whole-hearted England, whose bid-", "height": "3858", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 157\\nding you are bound to do, it is well but if\\nyou are yourselves the best of her heart, and\\nthe England you have left be but a half-\\nhearted England, how say you of your obedi-\\nence? You were too proud to become shop-\\nkeepers: are you satisfied then to become ser-\\nvants of shopkeepers? You were too proud to\\nbecome merchants or farmers yourselves will\\nyou have merchants or farmers then for your\\nfield marshals? You have no gifts of special\\ngrace for Exeter Hall: will you have some\\ngifted person thereat for your commander-in-\\nchief, to judge of your work, and reward?\\nYou imagine yourselves to be the army of\\nEngland how if you should find yourselves,\\nat last, only the police of her manufacturing\\ntowns, and the beadles of her little Bethels?\\nIt is not so yet, nor will be so, I trust, for\\never; but what I want you to see, and to be\\nassured of, is, that the ideal of soldiership is\\nnot mere passive obedience and bravery; that,\\nso far from this, no country is in a healthy\\nstate which has separated, even in a small de-\\ngree, her civil from ner military power. All\\nstates of the world, however great, fall at once\\nwhen they use mercenary armies; and\\nalthough it is a less instant form of error (be-\\ncause involving no national taint of coward-", "height": "3764", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "158 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nice), it is yet an error no less ultimately fatal\\nit is the error especially of modern times, of\\nwhich we cannot yet know all the calamitous\\nconsequences to take away the best blood and\\nstrength of the nation, all the soul- substance\\nof it that is brave, and careless of reward, and\\nscornful of pain, and faithful in trust and to\\ncast that into steel, and make a mere sword\\nof it taking away its voice and will but to\\nkeep the worst part of the nation whatever is\\ncowardly, avaricious, sensual, and faithless\\nand to give to this the voice, to this the autho-\\nrity, to this the chief privilege, where there is\\nleast capacity of thought. The fulfillment\\nof your vow for the defense of England will by\\nno means consist in carrying out such a sys-\\ntem. You are not true soldiers, if you only\\nmean to stand at a shop door, to protect shop-\\nboys who are cheating inside. A soldier s\\nvow to his country is that he will die for the\\nguardianship of her domestic virtue, of her\\nrighteous laws, and of her anyway challenged\\nor endangered honor. A state without virtue,\\nwithout laws, and without honor, he is bound\\nnot to defend nay, bound to redress by his\\nown right hand that which he sees to be base\\nin her. So sternly is the law of Nature and\\nlife, that a nation once utterly corrupt can only", "height": "3823", "width": "2386", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 159\\nbe redeemed by a military despotism never\\nby talking, nor by its free effort. And the\\nhealth of any state consists simply in this that\\nin it, those who are wisest shall also be strong-\\nest its rulers should be also its soldiers or,\\nrather, by force of intellect more than of\\nsword, it\u00c2\u00a3 soldiers its rulers. Whatever the\\nhold which the aristocracy of England has on\\nthe heart of England, in that they are still\\nalways in front of her battles, this hold will\\nnot be enough, unless they are also in front of\\nher thoughts. And truly her thoughts need\\ngood captain s reading now, if ever! Do you\\nknow what, by this beautiful division of labor\\n(her brave men fighting, and her cowards\\nthinking), she has come at last to think? Here\\nis a bit of paper in my hand*, a good one too,\\nand an honest one quite representative of the\\nbest common public thought of England at\\nthis moment and it is holding forth in one of\\nI do not care to refer to the journal quoted, because\\nthe article was unworthy of its general tone, though in\\norder to enable the audience to verify the quoted sen-\\ntence, I left the number containing it on the table, when\\nI delivered this lecture. But a saying of Baron Liebig s,\\nquoted at the head of a leader on the same subject in\\nthe Daily Telegraph of January n, 1866, summarily\\ndigests and presents the maximum folly of modern\\nthought in this respect Civilization, says the Baron,\\nis the economy of power, and English power is coal.\\nNot altogether so, my chemical friend. Civilization is", "height": "3784", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "160 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nits leaders upon our social warfare upon\\nour vivid life upon the political suprem-\\nacy of Great Britain. And what do you\\nthink all these are owing to? To what our\\nEnglish sires have done for us, and taught us,\\nage after age? No; not to that. To our\\nhonesty of heart, or coolness of head, or steadi-\\nness of will? No: not to these. To our think-\\ners, or our statesmen, or our poets, or our cap-\\ntains, or our martyrs, or the patient labor of\\nour poor? No: not to these; or at least not to\\nthese in any chief measure. Nay, says the\\njournal, more than any agency, it is the\\ncheapness and abundance of our coal which\\nhave made us what we are. If it be so, then,\\nashes to ashes be our epitaph! and thesooner\\nthe better. I tell you, gentlemen of England, if\\never you would have your country breathe the\\npure breath of heaven again, and receive again\\na soul into her body, instead of rotting into a\\ncarcass, blown up in the belly with carbolic\\nacid (and great that waj^), you must think, and\\nfeel, for your England, as well as fight for her:\\nthe making of civil persons, which is a kind of distilla-\\ntion of which alembics are incapable, and does not at all\\nimply the turning of a small company of gentlemen\\ninto a large company of ironmongers. And English\\npower (what little of it may be left), is by no means\\ncoal, but, indeed, of that which, when the whole world\\nturns to coal, then chiefly lives.", "height": "3847", "width": "2358", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 161\\nyou must teach her that all the true greatness\\nshe ever had, or ever can have, she won while\\nher fields were green and her faces ruddy\\nthat greatness is still possible for Englishmen,\\neven though the ground be not hollow under\\ntheir feet, nor the sky black over their heads\\nand that, when the day comes for their country\\nto lay her honors in the duot, her crest will\\nnot rise from it more loftily because it is dust\\nof coal. Gentlemen, I tell you, solemnly, that\\nthe day is coming when the soldiers of Eng-\\nland must be her tutors and the captains of\\nher army, captains also of her mind.\\nAnd now, remember, you soldier youths,\\nwho are thus in all ways the hope of your\\ncountry or must be, if she have any hope\\nremember that your fitness for all future trust\\ndepends upon what you are now. No good\\nsohlier in his old age was ever careless or\\nindolent in his youth. Many a giddy and\\nthoughtless boy has become a good bishop,\\nor a good lawyer, or a good merchant but no\\nsuch an one ever became a good general. I\\nchallenge you, in all history, to find a record\\nof a good soldier who was not grave and\\nearnest in his youth. And, in general, I have\\nno patience with people who talk about the\\nthoughtlessness of youth indulgently. I had\\n11 Crown", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "162 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ninfinitely rather hear of thoughtless old age,\\nand the indulgence due to that. When a man\\nhas done his work, and nothing can any way\\nbe materially altered in his fate, let him for-\\nget his toil, and jest with his fate, if he will\\nbut what excuse can you find for wilfulness\\nof thought, at the very time when every crisis\\nof future fortune hangs on your decisions? A\\nyouth thoughtless when all the happiness of\\nhis home forever depends on the chances, or\\nthe passions, of an hour! A youth thoughtless!\\nwhen the career of all his days depends on the\\nopportunity of a moment A youth thought-\\nless when his every act is a foundation-stone\\nof future conduct, and every imagination a\\nfountain of life or death Be thoughtless in\\nany after years, rather than now though?\\nindeed, there is only one place where a man\\nmay be nobly thoughtless, his death-bed.\\nNo thinking should ever be left to be done\\nthere.\\nHaving, then, resolved that you will not\\nwaste recklessly, but earnestly use, these early\\ndays of yours, remember that all the duties\\nof her children to England may be summed\\nin two words industry, and honor. I say first,\\nindustry, for it is in this that soldier youth are\\nespecially tempted to fall. Yet, surely, there", "height": "3855", "width": "2361", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 163\\nis no reason, because your life may possibly or\\nprobably be shorter than other men s, that\\nyou should therefore waste more recklessly the\\nportion of it that is granted you neither do\\nthe duties of your profession, which require\\nyou to keep your bodies strong, in any wise\\ninvolve the keeping of your minds weak. So\\nfar from that, the experience, the hardship,\\nand the activity of a soldier s life render his\\npowers of thought more accurate than those of\\nother men; and while, for others, all knowl-\\nedge is often little more than a means of\\namusement, there is no form of science which\\na soldier may not at some time or other find\\nbearing on business of life and death. A\\nyoung mathematician may be excused for lan-\\nguor in studying curves to be described only\\nwith a pencil but not in tracing those which\\nare to be described with a rocket. Your\\nknowledge of a wholesome herb may involve\\nthe feeding of an army; and acquaintance with\\nan obscure point of geography, the success of\\na campaign. Never waste an instant s time,\\ntherefore; the sin of idleness is a thousand-\\nfold greater in you than in other youths; for\\nthe fates of those who will one day be under\\nyour command hang upon your knowledge;\\nlost moments now will be lost lives then, and", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "164 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nevery instant which you carelessly take for\\nplay, you buy with blood. But there is one\\nway of wasting time, of all the vilest, because\\nit wastes, not time only, but the interest and\\nenergy of your minds. Of all the ungentle-\\nmanly habits into which you can fall, the vilest\\nis betting, or interesting yourselves in the\\nissues of betting. It unites nearly every con-\\ndition of folly and vice you concentrate your\\ninterest upon a matter of chance, instead of\\nupon a subject of true knowledge; and you\\nback opinions which you have no grounds for\\nforming, merely because they are your own.\\nAll the insolence of egotism is in this; and so\\nfar as the love of excitement is complicated\\nwith the hope of winning money, you turn\\nyourselves into the basest sort of tradesmen\\nthose who live by speculation. Were there no\\nother ground for industry, this would be a\\nsufficient one that it protected you from the\\ntemptation to so scandalous a vice. Work\\nfaithfully, and you will put yourselves in\\npossession of a glorious and enlarging happi-\\nness not such as can be won by the speed of\\na horse, or marred by the obliquity of a ball.\\nFirst, then, by industry you must fulfil your\\nvow to your country; but all industry and\\nearnestness will be useless unless they are con-\\nt", "height": "3852", "width": "2366", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 165\\nsecrated by your resolution to be in all things\\nmen of honor not honor in the common sense\\nonly, but in the highest. Rest on the force of\\nthe two main words in the great verse, integer\\nvitae, scelerisque purus. You have vowed your\\nlife to England; give it her wholly a bright,\\nstainless, perfect life a knightly life. Be-\\ncause you have to fight with machines instead\\nof lances, there may be a necessity for more\\nghastly danger, but there is none for less\\nworthiness of character, than in olden time.\\nYou may be true knights yet, though perhaps\\nnot equites; you may have to call yourselves\\ncannonry instead of chivalry, but that is\\nno reason why you should not call yourselves\\ntrue men. So the first thing you have to see\\nto in becoming soldiers is that you make your-\\nselves wholly true. Courage is a mere matter\\nof course among any ordinarily well-born\\nyouths; but neither truth nor gentleness is\\nmatter of course. You must bind them like\\nshields about your necks you must write them\\non the tables of your hearts. Though it be\\nnot exacted of you, yet exact it of yourselves,\\nthis vow of stainless truth. Your hearts are,\\nif you leave them unstirred, as tombs in which\\na god lies buried. Vow yourselves crusaders\\nto redeem that sacred sepulcher. And remem-", "height": "3783", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "166 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nber, before all things for no other memory\\nwill be so protective of you that the highest\\nlaw of this knightly truth is that under which\\nit is vowed to women. Whomsoever else you\\ndeceive, whomsoever you injure, whomsoever\\nyou leave unaided, you must not deceive, nor\\ninjure, nor leave unaided, according to your\\npower, any woman of whatever rank. Believe\\nme, every virtue of the higher phases of\\nmanly character begins in this; in truth and\\nmodesty before the face of all maidens; in\\ntruth and pity, or truth and reverence, to all\\nwomanhood.\\nAnd now let me turn for a moment to you,\\nwives and maidens, who are the souls of\\nsoldiers; to you, mothers, who have devoted\\nyour children to the great hierarchy of war.\\nLet me ask you to consider what part you have\\nto take for the aid of those who love you for\\nif you fail in your part they cannot fulfil theirs;\\nsuch absolute helpmates you are that no man\\ncan stand without that help, nor labor in his\\nown strength.\\nI know your hearts, and that the truth of\\nthem never fails when an hour of trial comes\\nwhich you recognize for such. But you know\\nnot when the hour of trial first finds you, nor\\nwhen it verily finds you. You imagine that", "height": "3852", "width": "2370", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 167\\nyou are only called upon to wait and suffer;\\nto surrender and to mourn. You know that you\\nmust not weaken the hearts of your husbands\\nand lovers, even by the one fear of which\\nthose hearts are capable, the fear of parting\\nfrom you, or of causing you grief. Through I\\nweary years of separation; through fearful\\nexpectancies of unknown fate; through the\\ntenfold bitterness of the sorrow which might\\nso easily have been joy, and the tenfold yearn-\\ning for glorious life struck down in its prime\\nthrough all these agonies you fail not, and\\nnever will fail. But your trial is not in these.\\nTo be heroic in danger is little you are Eng-\\nlishwomen. To be heroic in change and sway i\\nof fortune is little; for do you not love? To*\\nbe patient through the great chasm and pause\\nof loss is little for do you not still love in\\nheaven? But to be heroic in happiness; to\\nbear yourselves gravely and righteously in/\\nthe dazzling of the sunshine of morning; not^\\nto forget the God in whom you trust, when He\\ngives you most; not to fail those who trust-\\nyou, when they seem to need you least this is\\nthe difficult fortitude. It is not in the pining\\nof absence, not in the peril of battle, not in*\\nthe wasting of sickness, that your prayer\\nshould be most passionate, or your guardian-", "height": "3772", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "163 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nship most tender. Pray, mothers and maidens,\\nfor your young soldiers in the bloom of their\\npride pray for them, while the only dangers\\nround them are in their own wayward wills;\\nwatch you, and pray, when they have to face,\\nnot death, but temptation. But it is this for-\\ntitude also for which there is the crowning\\nreward. Believe me, the whole course and\\ncharacter of your lovers lives is in your hands;\\nwhat you would have them be, they shall be,\\nif you not only desire to have them so, but\\ndeserve to have them so; for they are but mir-\\nrors in which you will see yourselves imaged.\\nIf you are frivolous, they will be so also; if you\\nhave no understanding of the scope of their\\nduty, they also will forget it they will listen,\\nthey can listen, to no other interpretation\\nof it than that uttered from your lips. Bid\\nthem be brave; they will be brave for you;\\nbid them be cowards and how noble soever\\nthey be, they will quail for you. Bid them be\\nwise, and they will be wise for you mock at\\ntheir counsel, and they will be fools for you:\\nsuch and so absolute is your rule over them.\\nYou fancy, perhaps, as you have been told so\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2often, that a wife s rule should only be over\\nher husband s house, not over his mind. Ah,\\nno! the true rule is just the reverse of that; a", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 169\\ntrue wife, in her husband s house, is his ser-\\nvant; it is in his heart that she is queen.\\nWhatever of the best he can conceive, it is her\\npart to be; whatever of highest he can hope,\\nit is hers to promise all that is dark in him\\nshe must purge into purity all that is failing\\nin him she must strengthen into truth from\\nher, through all the world s clamor, he must\\nwin his praise; in her, through all the world s\\nwarfare, he must find his peace.\\nAnd, now, but one word more. You may\\nwonder, perhaps, that I have spoken all this\\nnight in praise of war. Yet, truly, if it might\\nbe, I, for one, would fain join in the cadence\\nof hammer-strokes that should beat swords\\ninto ploughshares: and that this cannot be, is\\nnot the fault of us men. It is your fault.\\nWholly yours. Only by your command, or by\\nyour permission, can any contest take place\\namong us. And the real, final, reason for all\\nthe poverty, misery, and rage of battle,\\nthroughout Europe, is simply that you women,\\nhowever good, however religious, however\\nself-sacrificing for those whom you love, are\\ntoo selfish and too thoughtless to take pains\\nfor any creature out of your own immediate\\ncircles. You fancy that you are sorry for the\\npain of others. Now I just tell you this, that\\n12 Crown", "height": "3784", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "170 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nif the usual course of war, instead of unroofing\\npeasants houses, and ravaging peasants fields,\\nmerely broke the china upon your own draw-\\ning-room tables, no war in civilized countries\\nwould last a week. I tell you more, that at\\nwhatever moment you chose to put a period to\\nwar, you could do it with less trouble than you\\ntake any day to go out to dinner. You know,\\nor at least you might know if you would think,\\nthat every battle you hear of has made many\\nwidows and orphans. We have, none of us,\\nheart enough truly to mourn with these. But\\nat least we might put on the outer symbols of\\nmourning with them. Let but every Christian\\nlady who has conscience toward God, vow\\nthat she will mourn, at least outwardly, for\\nHis killed creatures. Your praying is useless,\\nand you churchgoing mere mockery of God,\\nif you have not plain obedience in you\\nenough for this. Let every lady in the upper\\nclasses of civilized Europe simply vow, that,\\nwhile any cruel war proceeds, she will wear\\nblack; a mute s black, with no jewel, no\\nornament, no excuse for, or evasion into, pret-\\ntiness. I tell you again, no war would last a\\nweek.\\nAnd lastly. You women of England are all\\nnow shrieking with one voice. you and your", "height": "3856", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 171\\nclergymen together, because you hear of youf\\nBibles being attacked. If you choose to obey\\nyour Bibles, you will never care who attacks\\nthem. It is just because you never fulfil a\\nsingle downright precept of the Book, that you\\nare so careful for its credit: and just because\\nyou don t care to obey its whole words, that\\nyou are so particular about the letters of them.\\nThe Bible tells you to dress plainly, and you.\\nare mad for finery the Bible tells you to have-\\npity on the poor, and you crush them under\\nyour carriage- wheels the Bible tells you to do\\njudgment and justice, and you do not know\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nnor care to know, so much as what the Bible\\nword 4 justice means. Do but learn so much\\nof God s truth as that comes to know what He\\nmeans when He tells you to be just: and teach\\nyour sons, that their bravery is but a fool s\\nboast, and their deeds but a firebrand s tossing,\\nunless they are indeed Just men, and Perfect\\nin the fear of God and you will soon have no\\nmore war, unless it be indeed such as is willed\\nby Him, of whom, though Prince of Peace, it\\nis also written, In Righteousness He doth\\njudge, and make war.", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "LECTURE IV.\\nTHE FUTURE OF ENGLAND.\\n173", "height": "3786", "width": "2262", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3833", "width": "2258", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "LECTURE IV.\\nTHE FUTURE OF ENGLAND.\\n(Delivered at the R. A. Institution, Woolwick, Decem-\\nber 14, 1869.)\\nI would fain have left to the frank expression\\nof the moment, but fear I could not have found\\nclear words I cannot easily find them, even\\ndeliberately, to tell you how glad I am, and\\nyet how ashamed, to accept your permission to\\nspeak to you. Ashamed of appearing to think\\nthat I can tell you any truth which you have\\nnot more deeply felt than I but glad in the\\nthought that my less experience, and way of\\nlife sheltered from the trials, and free from the\\nresponsibilities of yours, many have left me\\nwith something of a child s power of help to\\nyou a sureness of hope, which may perhaps be\\nthe one thing that can be helpful to men who\\nhave done too much not to have often failed in\\ndoing all that they desired. And indeed, even\\nthe most hopeful of us cannot but now be in\\nmany things apprehensive, For this at least\\nwe all know too well, that we are on the eve of\\na great political crisis, if not of political\\n175", "height": "3785", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "176 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nchange. That a struggle is approaching\\nbetween the newly-risen power of democracy\\nand the apparently departing power of feudal-\\nism and another struggle, no less imminent,\\nand far more dangerous, between wealth and\\npauperism. These two quarrels are constantly\\nthought of as the same. They are being\\nfought together, and an apparently common\\ninterest unites for the most part the millionaire\\nwith the noble, in resistance to a multitude,\\ncrying, part of it for bread and part of it for\\nliberty.\\nAnd yet no two quarrels can be more dis-\\ntinct. Riches so far from being necessary to\\nnoblesse are adverse to it. So utterly-\\nadverse, that the first character of all the\\nNobilities which have founded great dynasties\\nin the world is to be poor often poor by oath\\nalways poor by generosity. And of every\\ntrue knight in the chivalric ages, the first thing\\nhistory tells you is, that he never kept treasure\\nfor himself.\\nThus the causes of wealth and noblesse are\\nnot the same; but opposite. On the other\\nhand, the causes of anarchy and of the poor\\nare not the same, but opposite. Side by side,\\nin the same rank, are now indeed set the pride\\nthat revolts against authority, and the misery", "height": "3823", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 177\\nthat appeals against avarice. But, so far from\\nbeing a common cause, all anarchy is the fore-\\nrunner of poverty, and all prosperity begins in\\nobedience. So that, thus, it has become\\nimpossible to give due support to the cause of\\norder, without seeming to countenance injury:\\nand impossible to plead justly the claims of\\nsorrow, without seeming to plead also for those\\nof licence.\\nLet me try, then, to put in very brief terms\\nthe real plan of this various quarrel, and the\\ntruth of the cause on each side. Let us face\\nthat full truth, whatever it may be, and decide\\nwhat part, according to our power, we should\\ntake in the quarrel.\\nFirst. For eleven hundred years, all but\\nfive, since Charlemagne set on his head the\\nLombard crown, the body of European people\\nhave submitted patiently to be governed gen-\\nerally by kings always by single leaders of\\nsome kind. But for the last fifty years they\\nhave begun to suspect, and of late they have\\nmany of them concluded, that they have been\\non the whole ill- governed, or misgoverned, by\\ntheir kings. Whereupon they say, more and\\nmore widely, Let us henceforth have no\\nkings and no government at all.\\nNow we said, we must face the full truth of\\n12", "height": "3770", "width": "2304", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "178 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthe matter, in order to see what we are to do.\\nAnd the truth is that the people have been\\nmisgoverned; that very little is to be said,\\nhitherto, for most of their masters and that\\ncertainly in many places they will try their\\nnew system of no masters and as that\\narrangement will be delightful to all foolish\\npersons, and, at first, profitable to all wicked\\nones, and as these classes are not wanting or\\nunimportant in any human society, the\\nexperiment is likely to be tried extensively.\\nAnd the world may be quite content to endure\\nmuch suffering with this fresh hope, and retain\\nits faith in anarchy, whatever comes of it, till\\nit can endure no more.\\nThen, secondly. The people have begun to\\nsuspect that one particular form of this past\\nmisgovernment has been, that their masters\\nhave set them to do all the work, and have\\nthemselves taken all the wages. In a word,\\nthat what was called governing them, meant\\nonly wearing fine clothes, and living on good\\nfare at their expense. And I am sorry to say,\\nthe people are quite right in this opinion also.\\nIf you inquire into the vital fact of the matter,\\nthis you will find to be the constant structure\\nof European society for the thousand years of\\nthe feudal system it was divided into peasants", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 179\\nwho lived by working; priests who lived by\\nbegging and knights who lived by pillaging\\nand as the luminous public mind becomes\\ngradually cognizant of these facts, it will\\nassuredly not suffer things to be altogether\\narranged that way any more; and the devising\\nof other ways will be an agitating business\\nespecially because the first impression of the\\nintelligent populace is, that whereas, in the\\ndark ages, half the nation lived idle, in the\\nbright ages to come, the whole of it may.\\nNow, thirdly and here is much the worst\\nphase of the crisis. This past system of mis-\\ngovernment, especially during the last three\\nhundred years, has prepared, by its neglect, a\\nclass among the lower orders which it is now\\npeculiarly difficult to govern. It deservedly\\nlost their respect but that was the least part\\nof mischief. The deadly part of it was, that\\nthe lower orders lost their habit, and at last\\ntheir faculty of, respect \u00e2\u0080\u0094lost the very capa-\\nbility of reverence, which is the most precious\\npart of the human soul. Exactly in the de-\\ngree in which you can find creatures, greater\\nthan yourself, to look up to, in that degree,\\nyou are ennobled yourself, and, in that degree,\\nhappy. If you could live always in the pres-\\nence of archangels, you would be happier than", "height": "3780", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "180 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nin that of men but even if only in the com-\\npany of admirable knights and beautiful ladies,\\nthe more noble and bright they were, and the\\nmore you could reverence their virtue, the\\nhappier you would be. On the contrary, if\\nyou were condemned to live among a multi-\\ntude of idiots, dumb, distorted, and malicious,\\nyou would not be happy in the constant sense\\nof your own superiority. Thus all real joy\\nand power of progress in humanity depend on\\nfinding something to reverence, and all the\\nbaseness and misery of humanity begin in a\\nhabit of disdain. Now, by general misgovern-\\nment, I repeat, we have created in Europe a\\nvast populace, and out of Europe a still vaster\\none, which has lost even the power and con-\\nception of reverence;* which exists only in\\nthe worship of itself which can neither see\\nanything beautiful around it, nor conceive\\nanything virtuous above it; which has,\\ntoward all goodness and greatness, no other\\nfeelings than those of the lowest creatures\\nfear, hatred, or hunger; a populace which has\\nsunk below your appeal in their nature, as it\\nhas risen beyond your power in their multi-\\ntude whom you can now no more charm than\\nCompare Time and Tide, 169, and Fors Clavigera\\nLetter XIV, page 9.", "height": "3825", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 181\\nyou can the adder, nor discipline, than you can\\nthe summer fly.\\nIt is a crisis, gentlemen and time to think\\nof it. I have roughly and broadly put it be-\\nfore you in its darkness. Let us look what we\\nmay find of light.\\nOnly the other day, in a journal which is a\\nfairly representative exponent of the Conser-\\nvatism of our day, and for the most part not at\\nall in favor of strikes or other popular pro-\\nceedings only about three weeks since, there\\nwas a leader, with this, or a similar, title\\n44 What is to become of the House of Lords?*\\nIt startled me, for it seemed as if we were\\ngoing even faster than I had thought, when\\nsuch a question was put as a subject of quite\\nopen debate, in a journal meant chiefly for the\\nreading of the middle and upper classes.\\nOpen or not the debate is near. What is to\\nbecome of them? And the answer to such\\nquestion depends first on their being able to\\nanswer another question What is the use of\\nthem? For some time back, I think the\\ntheory of the nation has been, that they are\\nuseful as impediments to business, so as to\\ngive time for second thoughts. But the na-\\ntion is getting impatient of impediments to\\nbusiness and certainly, sooner or later, will", "height": "3780", "width": "2251", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "182 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthink it needless to maintain these expensive\\nobstacles to its humors. And I have not\\nheard, either in public, or from any of them-\\nselves, a clear expression of their own concep-\\ntion of their use. So that it seems thus to be-\\ncome needful for all men to tell them, as our\\none quite clear-sighted teacher, Carlyle, has\\nbeen telling us for many a year, that the use\\nof the Lords of a country is to govern the\\ncountry. If they answer that use, the country\\nwill rejoice in keeping them if not, that will\\nbecome of them which must of all things\\nfound to have lost their serviceableness.\\nHere, therefore, is the one question, at this\\ncrisis, for them, and for us. Will they be\\nlords indeed, and give us laws dukes indeed,\\nand give us guiding princes indeed, and give\\nus beginning, of truer dynasty, which shall not\\nbe soiled by covetousness, nor disordered by\\niniquity? Have they themselves sunk so far\\nas not to hope this? Are there yet any among\\nthem who can stand forward with open Eng-\\nlish, brows, and say, So far as in me lies, I\\nwill govern with my might, not for Dieu et\\nmon Droit, but for the first grand reading of\\nthe war cry from which that was corrupted,\\nDieu et Droit Among them I know there\\nare some among you, soldiers of England, I", "height": "3832", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 183\\nknow there are many, who can do this; and in\\nyou is our trust. I, one of the lower people\\nof your country, ask of you in their name,\\nyou whom I will not any more call soldiers,\\nbut by the truer name of Knights; Equites\\nof England, how many yet of you are there,\\nknights errant now beyond all former fields of\\ndanger knights patient now beyond all\\nformer endurance; who still retain the ancient\\nand eternal purpose of knighthood, to subdue\\nthe wicked, and aid the weak? To them, be\\nthey few or many, we English people call for\\nhelp to the wretchedness, and for rule over the\\nbaseness, of multitudes desolate and deceived,\\nshrieking to one another, this new gospel of\\ntheir new religion. Let the weak do as they\\ncan, and the wicked as they will.\\nI can hear you saying in your hearts, even\\nthe bravest of you, The time is past for all\\nthat. Gentlemen, it is not so. The time has\\ncome for more than all that. Hitherto, sol-\\ndiers have given their lives for false fame, and\\nfor cruel power. The day is now when they\\nmust give their lives for true fame, and for\\nbeneficent power and the work is near every\\none of you close beside you the means of it\\neven thrust into your hands. The people are\\ncrying to you for command, and you stand there", "height": "3784", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "184 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nat pause, and silent. You think they don t want\\nto be commanded try them determine what is\\nneedful for them honorable for them show\\nit them, promise to bring them to it, and they\\nwill follow you through fire. Govern us,\\nthey cry with one heart, though many minds.\\nThey can be governed still, these English;\\nthey are men still; nor gnats, nor serpents.\\nThey love their old ways yet, and their old\\nmasters, and their old land. They would fain\\nlive in it, as many as may stay there, if you\\nwill show them how, there, to live or show\\nthem even, how, there, like Englishmen, to\\ndie.\\n44 To live in it, as many as may! How\\nmany do you think may? How many can?\\nHow many do you want to live there? As\\nmasters, your first object must be to increase\\nyour power and in what does the power of a\\ncountry consist? Will you have dominion over\\nits stones, or over its clouds, or over its souls?\\nWhat do you mean by a great nation, but a\\ngreat multitude of men who are true to each\\nother, and strong, and of worth? Now you\\ncan increase the multitude only definitely\\nyour island has only so much standing room\\nbut you can increase the worth indefinitely.\\nIt is but a little island suppose, little as it is,", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 185\\nyou were to fill it with friends? You may, and\\nthat easily. You must, and that speedily: or\\nthere will be an end to this England of ours,\\nand to all its loves and enmities.\\nTo fill this little island with true friends\\nmen brave, wise and happy Is it so impos-\\nsible, think you, after the world s eighteen\\nhundred years of Christianity, and our own\\nthousand years of toil, to fill only this little\\nwhite gleaming crag with happy creatures,\\nhelpful to each other? Africa, and India, and\\nthe Brazilian wide-watered plain, are these not\\nwide enough for the ignorance of our race?\\nhave they not space enough for its pain?\\nMust we remain here also savage, here at\\nenmity with each other, here foodless, house-\\nless, in rags, in dust, and without hope, as\\nthousands and tens of thousands of us are\\nlying? Do not think it, gentlemen. The\\nthought that it is inevitable is the last infidel-\\nity infidelity not to God only, but to every\\ncreature and every law that He has made.\\nAre we to think that the earth was only shaped\\nto be a globe of torture and that there cannot\\nbe one spot of it where peace can rest, or jus-\\ntice reign? Where are men ever to be happy,\\nif not in England? by whom shall they ever be\\ntaught to do right, if not by you? Are we not", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "186 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nof a race first among the strong ones of the\\nearth the blood in us incapable of weariness,\\nunconquerable by grief? Have we not a his-\\ntory of which we can hardly think without be-\\ncoming insolent in our just pride of it? Can\\nwe dare, without passing every limit of cour-\\ntesy to other nations, to say how much more\\nwe have to be proud of in our ancestors than\\nthey? Among our ancient monarchs, great\\ncrimes stand out as monstrous and strange.\\nBut their valor, and, according to their under-\\nstanding, their benevolence, are constant.\\nThe Wars of the Roses, which are as a fearful\\ncrimson shadow on our land, represent the\\nnormal condition of other nations while from\\nthe days of the Heptarchy downward we have\\nhad examples given us, in all ranks, of the\\nmost varied and exalted virtue; a heap of\\ntreasure that no moth can corrupt, and which\\neven our traitorship, if we are to become trait-\\nors to it, cannot sully.\\nAnd this is the race, then, that we know not\\nany more how to govern and this the history\\nwhich we are to behold broken off by sedition\\nand this is the country, of all others, where\\nlife is to become difficult to the honest, and\\nridiculous to the wise And the catastrophe,\\nforsooth, is to come just when we have been", "height": "3833", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 187\\nmaking swiftest progress beyond the wisdom\\nand wealth of the past. Our cities are a wil-\\nderness of spinning wheels instead of palaces\\nyet the people have not clothes. We have\\nblackened every leaf of English greenwood\\nwith ashes, and the people die of cold; our\\nharbors are a forest of merchant ships, and the\\npeople die of hunger.\\nWhose fault is it? Yours, gentlemen; yours\\nonly. You alone can feed them, and clothe,\\nand bring into their right minds, for you only\\ncan govern that is to say, you only, can edu-\\ncate them.\\nEducate, or govern, they are one and the\\nsame word. Education does not mean teach-\\ning people to know what they do not know.\\nIt means teaching them to behave as they do\\nnot behave. And the true compulsory edu-\\ncation which the people now ask of you is not\\ncatechism, but drill. It is not teaching the\\nyouth of England the shapes of letters and the\\ntricks of numbers; and then leaving them to\\nturn their arithmetic to roguery, and their lit-\\nerature to lust. It is, on the contrary, training\\nthem into the perfect exercise and kingly con-\\ntinence of their bodies and souls. It is a pain-\\nful, continual, and difficult work; to be done\\nby kindness, by watching, by warning, by pre-", "height": "3782", "width": "2299", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "188 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ncept, and by praise, but above all by\\nexample.\\nCompulsory! Yes, by all means! Go ye\\nout into the highways and hedges, and compel\\nthem to come in. Compulsory! Yes, and\\ngratis also. Dei Gratia, they must be taught,\\nas, Dei Gratia you are set to teach them. I\\nhear strange talk continually, how difficult it\\nis to make people pay for being educated!\\nWhy, I should think so Do you make your\\nchildren pay for their education, or do you give\\nit them compulsorily, and gratis? You do not\\nexpect them to pay you for their teaching, ex-\\ncept by becoming good children. Why should\\nyou expect a peasant to pay for his, except by\\nbecoming a good man? payment enough, I\\nthink, if we knew it. Payment enough to\\nhimself, as to us. For that is another of our\\ngrand popular mistakes people are always\\nthinking of education as a means of livelihood.\\nEducation is not a profitable business, but a\\ncostly one nay, even the best attainments of\\nit are always unprofitable, in any terms of coin.\\nNo nation ever made its bread either by its\\ngreat arts, or its great wisdoms. By its minor\\narts or manufactures, by its practical knowl-\\nedges, yes but its noble scholarship, its noble\\nphilosophy, and its noble art, are always to be", "height": "3826", "width": "2258", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 189\\nbought as a treasure, not sold for a livelihood.\\nYou do not learn that you may live\u00e2\u0080\u0094 you live\\nthat you may learn. You are to spend on\\nNational Education, and to be spent for it, and\\nto make by it, not more money, but better\\nmen; to get into this British Island the\\ngreatest possible number of good and brave\\nEnglishmen. They are to be your money s\\nworth.\\nBut where is the money to come from? Yes,\\nthat is to be asked. Let us, as quite the first\\nbusiness in this our national crisis, look not\\nonly into our affairs, but into our accounts, and\\nobtain some general notion how we annually\\nspend our money, and what we are getting for\\nit. Observe, I do not mean to inquire into\\nthe public revenue only of that some account\\nis rendered already. But let us do the best we\\ncan to set down the items of the national pri-\\nvate expenditure; and know what we spend\\naltogether, and how.\\nTo begin with this matter of education.\\nYou probably have nearly all seen the admir-\\nable lecture lately given by Captain Maxse, at\\nSouthampton. Tt contains a clear statement\\nof the facts at present ascertained as to our\\nexpenditure in that respect It appears that of\\nour public moneys, for every pound that we", "height": "3784", "width": "2292", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "190 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nspend on education we spend twelve either in\\ncharity or punishment ten millions a year in\\npauperism and crime, and eight hundred thou-\\nsand in instruction. Now Captain Maxse adds\\nto this estimate of ten millions public money\\nspent on crime and want, a more or less con-\\njectural sum of eight millions for private char-\\nities. My impression is that this is much\\nbeneath the truth, but at all events it leaves\\nout of consideration much the heaviest and\\nsaddest form of charity the maintenance, by\\nthe working members of families, of the unfor-\\ntunate or ill-conducted persons whom the gen-\\neral course of misrule now leaves helpless to\\nbe the burden of the rest.\\nNow I want to get first at some, I do not say\\napproximate, but at all events some suggestive,\\nestimate of the quantity of real distress and\\nmisguided life in this country. Then next, I\\nwant some fairly representative estimate of\\nour private expenditure in luxuries. We won t\\nspend more, publicly, it appears, than eight\\nhundred thousand a year, on educating men,\\ngratis. I want to know, as nearly as possible,\\nwhat we spend privately a year, in educating\\nhorses gratis. Let us, at least, quit ourselves\\nin this from the taunt of Rabshakeh, and see\\nthat for every horse we train also a horseman", "height": "3832", "width": "2315", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 191\\nand that the rider be at least as high-bred as\\nthe horse, not jockey, but chevalier. Again,\\nwe spend eight hundred thousand, which is\\ncertainly a great deal of money, in making\\nrough minds bright. I want to know how\\nmuch we spend annually in making rough\\nstones bright that is to say, what may be the\\nunited annual sum, or near it, of our jewelers\\nbills. So much we pay tor educating children\\ngratis; how much for educating diamonds\\ngratis? and which pays best for brightening\\nthe spirit, or the charcoal? Let us get those\\ntwo items set down with some sincerity, and\\na few more of the same kind. Publicly set\\ndown. We must not be ashamed of the way\\nwe spend our money. If our right hand is not\\nto know what our left does, it must not be\\nbecause it would be ashamed if it did.\\nThat is, therefore, quite the first practical\\nthing to be done. Let every man who wishes\\nwell to his country, render it yearly an account\\nof his income, and of the main heads of his\\nexpenditure or, if he is ashamed to do so, let\\nhim no more impute to the poor their poverty\\nas a crime, nor set them to break stones in\\norder to frighten them from committing it.\\nTo lose money ill is indeed often a crime but\\nto get it ill is a worse one, and to spend it ill,", "height": "3785", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "192 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nworst of all. You object, Lords of England, to\\nincrease, to the poor, the wages you give them,\\nbecause they spend them, you say, unadvis-\\nedly. Render them, therefore, an account of\\nthe wages which they give you; and show\\nthem, by your example, how to spend theirs,\\nto the last farthing, advisedly.\\nIt is indeed time to make this an acknowl-\\nedged subject of instruction, to the working-\\nman, how to spend his wages. For, gentle-\\nmen, we must give that instruction, whether\\nwe will or no, one way or the other, We have\\ngiven it in years gone by; and now we find\\nfault with our peasantry for having been too\\ndocile, and profited too shrewdly by our tui-\\ntion. Only a few days since I had a letter\\nfrom the wife of a village rector, a man of com-\\nmon sense and kindness, who was greatly\\ntroubled in his mind because it was precisely\\nthe men who got highest wages in summer\\nthat came destitute to his door in the winter.\\nDestitute, and of riotous temper for their\\nmethod of spending wages in their period of\\nprosperity was by sitting two days a week in\\nthe tavern parlor, ladling port wine, not out of\\nbowls, but out of buckets. Well, gentlemen,\\nwho taught them that method of festivity?\\nThirty years ago, I, a most inexperienced", "height": "3847", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "wmm^\\nm90^\\nCame destitute to his door in winter. Page 192.\\nThe Crown of Wild Olive.", "height": "3787", "width": "2451", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3833", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 193\\nfreshman, went to my first college supper at\\nthe head of the table sat a nobleman of high\\npromise and of admirable powers, since dead\\nof palsy there also we had in the midst of us,\\nnot buckets, indeed, but bowls as large as\\nbuckets there also we helped ourselves with\\nladles. There (for this beginning of college\\neducation was compulsory), I, choosing ladle-\\nfuls of punch instead of claret, because I was\\nthen able, unperceived, to pour them into my\\nwaistcoat instead of down my throat, stood it\\nout to the end, and helped to carry four of my\\nfellow students, one of them the son of the\\nhead of a college, head-foremost downstairs\\nand home.\\nSuch things are no more but the fruit of\\nthem remains, and will for many a day to come.\\nThe laborers whom you cannot now shut out\\nof the ale-house are only the too faithful dis-\\nciples of the gentlemen who were wont to shut\\nthemselves into the dining-room. The gentle-\\nmen have not thought it necessary, in order to\\ncorrect their own habits, to diminish their\\nincomes; and, believe me, the way to deal\\nwith your drunken workman is not to lower\\nhis wages, but to mend his wits.*\\nAnd if indeed we do not yet see quite clearly\\n^Compare 70 of Time and Tide.\\n13 Crown", "height": "3783", "width": "2293", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "194 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE,\\nhow to deal with the sins of our poor brother,\\nit is possible that our dimness of sight may\\nstill have other causes that can be cast out.\\nThere are two opposite cries of the great Lib-\\neral and Conservative parties, which are both\\nmost right, and worthy to be rallying cries.\\nOn their side, lt Let every man have his\\nchance on yours, t4 Let every man stand in\\nhis place. Yes, indeed, let that be so, every\\nman in his place, and every man fit for it.\\nSee that he holds that place from Heaven s\\nProvidence; and not from his family s Provi-\\ndence. Let the Lords Spiritual quit them-\\nselves of simony, we laymen will look after the\\nheretics for them. Let the Lords Temporal\\nquit themselves of nepotism, and we will take\\ncare of their authority for them. Publish for\\nus, you soldiers, an army gazette, in which\\nthe one subject of daily intelligence shall be\\nthe grounds of promotion; a gazette which\\nshall simply tell us, what there certainly can\\nbe no detriment to the service in our knowing,\\nwhen any officer is appointed to a new com-\\nmand, what his former services and successes\\nhave been, whom he has superseded, and\\non what ground. It will be always a satisfac-\\ntion to us it may sometimes be an advantage\\nto you and then, when there is really neces-", "height": "3833", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 195\\nsary debate respecting reduction of wages, let\\nus always begin not with the wages of the\\nindustrious classes, but with those of the idle\\nones. Let there be honorary titles, if people\\nlike them; but let there be no honorary\\nincomes.\\nSo much for the master s motto, Every\\nman in his place. Next for the laborer s\\nmotto, Every man his chance. Let us\\nmend that for them a little, and say, Every\\nman his certainty certainty, that if he does\\nwell, he will be honored, and aided, and\\nadvanced in such degree as may be fitting for\\nhis faculty and consistent with his peace and\\nequal certainty that if he does ill, he will by\\nsure justice be judged, and by sure punishment\\nbe chastised; if it may be, corrected; and if\\nthat may not be, condemned. That is the\\nright reading of the Republican motto, Every\\nman his chance. And then with such a sys-\\ntem of government, pure, watchful, and just,\\nyou may approach your great problem of\\nnational education, or, in other words, of\\nnational employment. For all education\\nbegins in work. What we think, or what we\\nknow, or what we believe, is in the end of\\nlittle consequence. The only thing of conse-\\nquence is what we do: and for man woman or", "height": "3784", "width": "2289", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "196 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nchild, the first point of education is to make\\nthem do their best. It is the law of good econ-\\nomy to make the best of everything. How\\nmuch more to make the best of every creature\\nTherefore, when your pauper comes to you\\nand asks for bread, ask of him instantly\\nWhat faculty have you? What can you do\\nbest? Can you drive a nail into wood? Go\\nand mend the parish fences. Can you lay a\\nbrick? Mend the walls of the cottages where\\nthe wind comes in. Can you lift a spadeful of\\nearth? Turn this field up three feet deep all\\nover. Can you only drag a weight with your\\nshoulders? Stand at the bottom of this hill\\nand help up the overladen horses. Can you\\nweld iron and chisel stone? Fortify this wreck-\\nstrewn coast into a harbor; and change these\\nshifting sands into fruitful ground. Wherever\\ndeath was, bring life that is to be your work\\nthat your parish refuge that your education.\\nSo and no otherwise can we meet existent dis-\\ntress. But for the continual education of the\\nwhole people, and for their future happiness,\\nthey must have such consistent employment,\\nas shall develop all the powers of the fingers,\\nand the limbs, and the brain and that devel-\\nopment is only to be obtained by hand-labor,\\nof which you have these four great divisions", "height": "3833", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 197\\nhand-labor on the earth, hand-labor on the sea,\\nhand-labor in art, hand-labor in war. Of the\\nlast two of these I cannot speak to-night, and\\nof the first two only with extreme brevity.\\nI. Hand-labor on the earth, the work of the\\nhusbandman and of the shepherd;\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to dress\\nthe earth and to keep the flocks of it the first\\ntask of man, and the final one the education\\nalways of noblest lawgivers, kings and teach-\\ners; the education of Hesiod, of Moses, of\\nDavid, of all the true strength of Rome and\\nall its tenderness the pride of Cincinnatus and\\nthe inspiration of Virgil. Hand-labor on the\\nearth, and the harvest of it brought forth with\\nsinging: not steam-piston labor on the earth,\\nand the harvest of it brought forth with steam-\\nwhistling. You will have no prophet s voice\\naccompanied by that shepherd s pipe, and pas-\\ntoral symphony. Do you know that lately, in\\nCumberland, in the chief pastoral district of\\nEngland, in Wordsworth s own home, a pro-\\ncession of villagers on their festa day provided\\nfor themselves, by way of music, a steam-\\nplough whistling at the head of them\\nGive me patience, while I put the principle\\nof machine labor before you, as clearly and in\\nas short compass as possible; it is one that\\nshould be known at this juncture. Suppose a", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "198 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nfarming proprietor needs to employ a hundred\\nmen on his estate, and that the labor of these\\nhundred men is enough, but not more than\\nenough, to till all this land, and to raise from\\nit food for his own family, and for the hundred\\nlaborers. He is obliged, under such circum-\\nstances, to maintain all the men in moderate\\ncomfort, and can only by economy accumulate\\nmuch for himself. But, suppose he contrive a\\nmachine that will easily do the work of fifty\\nmen, with only one man to watch it. This\\nsounds like a great advance in civilization.\\nThe farmer of course gets his machine made,\\nturns off the fifty men who may starve or emi-\\ngrate at their choice, and now he can keep half\\nof the produce of his estate, which formerly\\nwent to feed them, all to himself. That is the\\nessential and constant operation of machinery\\namong us at this moment.\\nNay, it is at first answered no man can in\\nreality keep half the produce of an estate to\\nhimself, nor can he in the end keep more than\\nhis own human share of anything; his riches\\nmust diffuse themselves at some time; he\\nmust maintain somebody else with them, how-\\never he spends them. That is mainly true\\n(not altogether so), for food and fuel are in\\nordinary circumstances personally wasted by", "height": "3833", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 199\\nrich people, in quantities which would save\\nmany lives. One of my own great luxuries,\\nfor instance, is candlelight and I probably\\nburn, for myself alone, as many candles dur-\\ning the winter, as would comfort the old eyes,\\nor spare the young ones, of a whole rush-\\nlighted country village. Still, it is mainly\\ntrue that it is not by their personal waste\\nthat rich people prevent the lives of the poor.\\nThis is the way they do it. Let me go back\\nto my farmer. He has got his machine made,\\nwhich goes creaking, screaming, and occasion-\\nally exploding, about modern Arcadia. He has\\nturned off his fifty men to starve. Now, at\\nsome distance from his own farm, there is an-\\nother on which the laborers were working for\\ntheir bread in the same way, by tilling the\\nland. The machinist sends over to these, say-\\ning I have got enough food for you without\\nyour digging or ploughing any more. I can\\nmaintain you in other occupations instead of\\nploughing that land if you rake in its gravel\\nyou will find some hard stones you shall\\ngrind those on mills till they glitter; then, my\\nwife shall wear a necklace of them. Also, if\\nyou turn up the meadows below you will find\\nsome fine white clay, of which you shall make\\na porcelain service for me and the rest of the", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "200 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nfarm I want for pasture for horses for my car-\\nriage and you shall groom them, and some of\\nyou ride behind the carriage with staves in\\nyou hands, and I will keep you much fatter\\nfor doing that than you can keep yourselves\\nby digging.\\nWell but it is answered, are we to have no\\ndiamonds, nor china, nor pictures, nor foot,\\nmen, then but all to be farmers? I am not\\nsaying what we ought to do, I want only to\\nshow you with perfect clearness first what we\\nare doing and that, I repeat, is the upshot of\\nmachine-contriving in this country. And ob-\\nserve its effect on the national strength.\\nWithout machines, you have a hundred and\\nfifty yeomen ready to join for defense of the\\nland. You ge your machine, starve fifty of\\nthem, make diamond-cutters or footmen of as\\nmany more, and for your national defense\\nagainst an enemy, you have now, and can\\nhave, only fifty men, instead of a hundred and\\nfifty these also now with minds much alienated\\nfrom you as their chief,* and the rest, lapi-\\ndaries or footmen and a steam plough.\\nThat is the one effect of machinery but at\\nall events, if we have thus lost in men, we\\n[They were deserting, I am informed, in the early\\npart of this year, 1873, at the rate of a regiment a week.", "height": "3830", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 201\\nhave gained in riches instead of happy human\\nsouls, we have at least got pictures, china,\\nhorses, and are ourselves better off than we\\nwere before. But very often, and in much of\\nour machine-contriving, even that result does\\nnot follow. We are not one whit the richer\\nfor the machine, we only employ it for our\\namusement. For observe, our gaining in\\nriches depends on the men who are out of em-\\nployment consenting to be starved, or sent out\\nof the country. But suppose they do not con-\\nsent passively to be starved, but some of them\\nbecome criminals, and have to be taken charge\\nof and fed at a much greater cost than if they\\nwere at work, and others, paupers, rioters, and\\nthe like, then you attain the real outcome of\\nmodern wisdom and ingenuity. You had your\\nhundred men honestly at country work but\\nyou don t like the sight of human beings in\\nyour fields; you like better to see a smoking\\nkettle. You pay, as an amateur, for that\\npleasure, and you employ your fifty men in\\npicking oakum, or begging, rioting, and thiev-\\ning.\\nBy hand-labor, therefore, and that alone, we\\nare to till the ground. By hand-labor also to\\nplough the sea; both for food, and in com-\\nmerce, and in war; not with floating kettles\\n14 Crown", "height": "3770", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "202 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthere neither, but with hempen bridle, and the\\nwinds of heaven in harness. That is the way\\nthe power of Greece rose on her Egean, the\\npower of Venice on her Adria, of Amalfl in\\nher blue bay, of the Norman sea-riders from\\nthe North Cape to Sicily so, your own domin-\\nion also of the past. Of the past, mind you.\\nOn the Baltic and the Nile, your power is\\nalready departed. By machinery you would\\nadvance to discovery by machinery you would\\ncarry your commerce; you would be engi-\\nneers instead of sailors and instantly in the\\nNorth seas you are beaten among the ice, and\\nbefore the very Gods of Nile, beaten among\\nthe sand. Agriculture, then, by the hand or\\nby the plough drawn only by animals: and\\nshepherd and pastoral husbandry, are to be\\nthe chief schools of Englishmen. And this\\nmost royal academy of all academies you have\\nto open over all the land, purifying your\\nheaths and hills, and waters, and keeping\\nthem full of every kind of lovely natural\\norganism, in tree, herb, and living creature.\\nAll land that is waste and ugly, you must re-\\ndeem into ordered fruitfulness; all ruin, deso*\\nlateness, imperfectness of hut or habitation,\\nyou must do away with and throughout every\\nvillage and city of your English dominion,", "height": "3830", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 203\\nthere must not be a hand that cannot find a\\nhelper, nor a heart that cannot find a com-\\nforter.\\nHow impossible I know you are think-\\ning. Ah So far from impossible, it is easy,\\nit is natural, it is necessary, and I declare to\\nyou that, sooner or later, it must be done, at\\nour peril. If now our English lords of land\\nwill fix this idea steadily before them take\\nthe people to their hearts, trust to their loy-\\nalty, lead their labor then indeed there will\\nbe princes again in the midst of us, worthy of\\nthe island throne,\\nThis royal throne of kings\u00e2\u0080\u0094 this sceptred isle\\nThis fortress built by nature for herself\\nAgainst infection, and the hand of war;\\nThis precious stone set in the silver sea\\nThis happy breed of men \u00e2\u0080\u0094this little world;\\nThis other Eden Demi-Paradise.\\nBut if they refuse to do this, and hesitate and\\nequivocate, clutching through the confused\\ncatastrophe of all things only at what they can\\nstill keep stealthily for themselves, their\\ndoom is nearer than even their adversaries\\nhope, and it will be deeper than even their de-\\nspisers dream.\\nThat, believe me, is the work you have to\\ndo in England; and out of England you have", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "204 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nroom for everything else you care to do. Are\\nher dominions in the world so narrow that she\\ncan find no place to spin cotton in but York-\\nshire? We may organize emigration into an\\ninfinite power. We may assemble troops of\\nthe more adventurous and ambitious of our\\nyouth we may send them on truest foreign\\nservice, founding new seats of authority, and\\ncenters of thought, in uncultivated and uncon-\\nquered lands retaining the full affection to\\nthe native country no less in our colonists than\\nin our armies, teaching them to maintain alle-\\ngiance to their fatherland in labor no less than\\nin battle aiding them with free hand in the\\nprosecution of discovery, and the victory over\\nadverse natural powers; establishing seats of\\nevery manufacture in the climates and places\\nbest fitted for it, and bringing ourselves into\\ndue allegiance and harmony of skill with the\\ndexterities of every race, and the wisdoms of\\nevery tradition and every tongue.\\nAnd then you may make England itself the\\ncenter of the learning, of the arts, of the cour-\\ntesies and felicities of the world. You may\\ncover her mountains with pasture her plains\\nwith corn, her valleys with the lily, and her\\ngardens with the rose. You may bring to-\\ngether there in peace the wise and the pure,", "height": "3856", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 205\\nand the gentle of the earth, and by their word,\\ncommand through its farthest darkness the\\nbirth of God s first creature, which was\\nLight. You know whose words those are\\nthe words of the wisest of Englishmen. He,\\nand with him the wisest of all other great na-\\ntions, have spoken always to men of this hope r\\nand they would not hear. Plato, in the dia-\\nlogue of Critias, his last, broken off at his\\ndeath, \u00e2\u0080\u0094Pindar, in passionate singing of the\\nfortunate islands, Virgil, in the prophetic\\ntenth ecologue, Bacon, in his fable of the New\\nAtlantis, Hore, in the book which, too im-\\npatiently wise, became the bye-word of fools\\nthese, all, have told us with one voice what we\\nshould strive to attain they not hopeless of\\nit, but for our follies forced, as it seems, by\\nheaven, to tell us only partly and in parables,\\nlest we should hear them and obey.\\nShall we never listen to the words of these\\nwisest of men? Then listen at least to the\\nwords of your children let us in the lips of\\nbabes and sucklings find our strength and see\\nthat we do not make them mock instead of\\npray, when we teach them, night and morning,\\nto ask for what we believe never can be", "height": "3787", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "206 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ngranted; that the will of the Father, which\\nis, that His creatures may be righteous and\\nhappy, should be done, on earth, as it is in\\nHeaven.", "height": "3817", "width": "2287", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\nNotes on the Political Economy of Prussia.\\nI am often accused of inconsistency; but be-\\nlieve myself defensible against the charge with\\nrespect to what I have said on nearly every\\nsubject except that of war. It is impossible\\nfor me to write consistently of war, for the\\ngroups of facts I have gathered about it lead\\nme to two precisely opposite conclusions.\\nWhen I find this the case, in other matters,\\nI am silent, till I can choose my conclusions\\nbut, with respect to war, I am forced to speak,\\nby the necessities of time and forced to act\\none way or another. The conviction on which\\nI act is that it causes an incalculable amount\\nof avoidable human suffering, and that it\\nought to cease among Christian nations; and\\nif therefore any of my boy-friends desire to be\\nsoldiers, I try my utmost to bring them into\\nwhat I conceive to be a better mind. But, on\\nthe other hand, I know certainly that the most\\nbeautiful characters yet developed among men\\nhave been formed in war; that all great\\nnations have been warrior nations, and that the\\nonly kinds of peace which we are likely to get\\nin the present age are ruinous alike to the in-\\ntellect, and the heart.\\n207", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "208 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nThe third lecture, in this volume, addressed\\nto young soldiers, had for its subject to\\nstrengthen their trust in the virtue of their\\nprofession. It is inconsistent with itself, in\\nits closing appeal to women, praying them to\\nuse their influence to bring wars to an end.\\nAnd I have been hindered from completing\\nmy long intended notes on the economy of the\\nKings of Prussia by continually increasing\\ndoubt how far the machinery and discipline of\\nwar, under which they learned the art of gov-\\nernment, was essential for such lesson; and\\nwhat the honesty and sagacity of the Friedrich\\nwho so nobly repaired his ruined Prussia might\\nhave done for the happiness of his Prussia,\\nunruined.\\nIn war, however, or in peace, the character\\nwhich Carlyle chiefly loves him for, and in\\nwhich Carlyle has shown him to differ from\\nall kings up to this time succeeding him, is his\\nconstant purpose to use every power intrusted\\nto him for the good of his people he, not in\\nname only, but in heart and hand, their king.\\nNot in ambition, but in natural instinct of\\nduty. Friederich, born to govern, determines\\nto govern to the best of his faculty. That\\n4 best may sometimes be unwise; and self-\\nwill, or love of glory, may have their oblique\\nhold on his mind, and warp it this way or that\\nbut they are never principal with him. He\\nbelieves that war is necessary, and maintains\\nit sees that peace is necessary, and calmly per-\\nsists in the work of it to the day of his death,\\nnot claiming therein more praise than the head", "height": "3833", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 209\\nof any ordinary household, who rules it simply\\nbecause it is his place, and he must not yield\\nthe mastery of it to another.\\nHow far, in the future, it may be possible\\nfor men to gain the strength necessary for king-\\nship without either fronting death, or inflicting\\nit, seems to me not at present determinable.\\nThe historical facts are that, broadly speaking,\\nnone but soldiers, or persons with a soldierly\\nfaculty, have ever yet shown themselves fit to\\nbe kings and that no other men are so gentle,\\nso just, or so clear-sighted. Wordsworth s\\ncharacter of the happy warrior cannot be\\nreached in the height of it but by a warrior\\nnay, so much is it beyond common strength\\nthat I had supposed the entire meaning of it to\\nbe metaphorical, until one of the best soldiers\\nof England himself read me the poem,* and\\ntaught me what I might have known, had I\\nenough watched his own life that it was entirely\\nliteral. There is nothing of so high reach\\ndistinctly demonstrable in Friedrich but I see\\nmore and more, as I grow older, that the things\\nwhich are the most worth, encumbered among\\nthe errors and faults of every man s nature, are\\nnever clearly demonstrable and are often most\\nforcible when they are scarcely distinct to his\\nown conscience, how much less, clamorous\\nfor recognition by others Nothing can be\\nmore beautiful than Carlyle s showing of this,\\nto any careful reader of Friedrich. But care-\\nful readers are but one in a thousand; and by\\n*The late Sir Herbert Edwards.\\n14", "height": "3768", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "210 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthe careless, the masses of detail with which\\nthe historian must deal are insurmountable.\\nMy own notes, made for the special purpose\\nof hunting down the one point of economy,\\nthough they cruelly spoil Carlyle s own current\\nand method of thought, may yet be useful in\\nenabling readers, unaccustomed to books in-\\nvolving so vast a range of conception, to dis-\\ncern what, on this one subject only, may be\\ngathered from that history. On any other\\nsubject of importance, similar gatherings\\nmight be made of other passages. The histor-\\nian has to deal with all at once.\\nI therefore have determined to print here, as\\na sequal to the Essay on War, my notes from\\nthe first volume of Friedrich, on the economies\\nof Brandenburg, up to the date of the establish-\\nment of the Prussian monarchy. The econo-\\nmies of the first three Kings of Prussia I shall\\nthen take up in Fors Clavigera, finding them\\nfitter for examination in connection with the\\nsubject of that book than of this.\\nI assume, that the reader will take down his\\nfirst volume of Carlyle, and read attentively\\nthe passages to which I refer him. I give the\\nreference first to the largest edition, in six vol-\\numes 1858-1865; then, in parenthesis, to the\\nsmallest or people s edition 1872-1873. The\\npieces which I have quoted in my own text\\nare for the use of readers who may not have\\nready access to the book and are enough for\\nthe explanation of the points to which I wish\\nthem to direct their thoughts in reading such\\nhistories of soldiers or soldier-kingdoms.", "height": "3829", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 211\\nI.\\nYear 928 to 936.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dawn of Order in Christian Germany.\\nBook II. Chap. i. p. 67 (47).\\nHenry the Fowler, the beginning of Ger-\\nman kings, is a mighty soldier in the cause of\\npeace; his essential work the building and\\norganization of fortified towns for the protec-\\ntion of men.\\nRead page 72 with utmost care (51), He\\nfortified towns to end of small print. I have\\nadded some notes on the matter in my lecture\\non Giovanni Pisano; but whether you can\\nglance at them or not, fix in your mind this\\ninstitution of truly civil or civic building in\\nGermany, as distinct from the building of\\nbaronial castles for the security of the robbers\\nand of a standing army consisting of every\\nninth man, called a burgher townsman\\na soldier appointed to learn that profession\\nthat he may guard the walls the exact re-\\nverse of our notion of a burgher.\\nFrederick s final idea of his army is, indeed,\\nonly this.\\nBrannibor, a chief fortress of the Wends, is\\nthus taken, and further strengthened by Henry\\nthe Fowler; wardens appointed for it; and\\nthus the history of Brandenburg begins. On\\nall frontiers, also, this beginning of German\\nkings has his Markgraf, Ancient of the\\nmarked place. Read page 73, measuredly,\\nlearning it by heart, if it may be. (51-2).", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "312 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nII.\\n936 1000. History of Nascent Brandenburg.\\nThe passage I last desired you to read ends\\nwith this sentence: The sea-wall you build,\\nand what main floodgates you establish in it,\\nwill depend on the state of the outer sea.\\nFrom this time forward you have to keep\\nclearly separate in your minds, (a) the history\\nof that outer sea, Pagan Scandinavia, Russia,\\nand Bor- Russia, or Prussia proper; (b) the\\nhistory of Henry the Fowler s Eastern and\\nWestern Marches; asserting themselves grad-\\nually as Austria and the Netherlands; and (c)\\nthe history of this inconsiderable fortress of\\nBrandenburg, gradually becoming consider-\\nable, and the capital city of increasing district\\nbetween them. That last history, however,\\nCarlyle is obliged to leave vague and gray for\\ntwo hundred years after Henry s death. Ab-\\nsolutely dim for the first century, in which\\nnothing is evident but that its wardens or\\nMarkgraves had no peaceable possession of the\\nplace. Read the second paragraph in page\\n74 (52-3), in old books to reader, and the\\nfirst in page 83 (59), meanwhile to sub-\\nstantial. consecutively. They bring the story\\nof Brandenburg itself down, at any rate, from\\n936 to 1000.\\nIII.\\n936 1000. State of the Outer Sea.\\nRead now chapter II. beginning at page 76\\n(54), wherein you will get account of the begin-", "height": "3854", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 213\\ntiing of vigorous missionary work on the outer\\nsea, in Prussia proper; of the death of St.\\nAdalbert, and of the purchase of his dead body\\nby the Duke of Poland.\\nYou will not easily understand Carlyle s\\nlaugh in this chapter, unless you have learned\\nyourself to laugh in sadness, and to laugh in\\nlove.\\nNo Czech blows his pipe in the woodlands\\nwithout certain precautions and preliminary\\nfuglings of a devotional nature. (Imagine\\nSt. Adalbert, in spirit, at the railway station\\nin Birmingham!)\\nMy own main point for notice in the chapter\\nis the purchase of his body for its weight in\\ngold. Swindling angels held it up in the\\nscales; it did not weigh so much as a web of\\ngossamer. Had such excellent odor, too, and\\ncame for a mere nothing of gold, says Car-\\nlyle. It is one of the first commercial transac-\\ntions of Germany, but I regret the conduct of\\nthe angels on the occasion. Evangelicalism has\\nbeen proud of ceasing to invest in relics, its\\nswindling angels helping it to better things,\\nas it supposes. For my own part, I believe\\nChristian Germany could not have bought at\\nthis time any treasure more precious; neverthe-\\nless, the missionary work itself you find is\\nwholly vain. The difference of opinion be-\\ntween St. Adalbert and the Wends, on Divine\\nmatters, does not signify to the Fates. They\\nwill not have it disputed about; and end the\\ndispute adversely, to St. Adalbert, adversely,", "height": "3769", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "214 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\neven, to Brandenburg and its civilizing power,\\nas you will immediately see.\\nIV.\\niooo 1030. History of Brandenburg in Trouble.\\nBook II. Chap. iii. p. 83 (59)*\\nThe adventures of Brandenburg in contest\\nwith Pagan Prussia, irritated, rather than\\namended, by St. Adalbert. In 1023, roughly,\\na hundred years after Henry the Fowler s\\ndeath, Brandenburg is taken by the Wends,\\nand its first line of Markgraves ended; its\\npopulation mostly butchered, especially the\\npriests; and the Wends* God, Triglaph, some-\\nthing like three whales cubs combined by\\nboiling, set up on the top of St. Mary s Hill.\\nHere is an adverse Doctrine of the Trinity\\nwhich has its supporters! It is wonderful,\\nthis Tripod and Triglyph, three footed, three\\ncut faith of the North and South, the leaf of\\nthe oxalis, and strawberry, and clover, foster-\\ning the same in their simple manner. I sup-\\npose it to be the most savage and natural of\\nnotions about Deity a prismatic idol-shape of\\nHim, rude as a triangular log, as a trefoil\\ngrass. I do not find how long Triglaph held\\nhis state on St. Mary s Hill. For a time,\\nsays Carlyle, the priests all slain or fled,\\nshadowy Markgraves the like church and\\nstate lay in ashes, and Triglaph, like a triple\\nporpoise under the influence of laudanum,\\nstood, I know not whether on his head or his", "height": "3820", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 215\\ntail, aloft on the Harlungsberg, as the Su-\\npreme of this Universe for the time being.\\n1030 1 130. Brandenburg under the Ditmarsch Mark-\\ngraves, or Ditrnarsch-Stade Markgraves.\\nBook II. Chap. iii. p. 85 (60).\\nOf Anglish, or Saxon breed. They attack\\nBrandenburg, under its Triglyphic protector,\\ntake it dethrone him, and hold the town for\\na hundred years, their history stamped ben-\\neficially on the face of things, Markgraf after\\nMarkgraf getting killed in the business.\\nErschlagen, 4 slain, fighting with the Heathen\\nsay the old books, and pass on to another.\\nIf we allow seven years to Triglaph \u00e2\u0080\u0094we get a\\nclear century for these as above indicated.\\nThey die out in 11 30.\\nVI.\\n1 130 1 1 70. Brandenburg under Albert the Bear.\\nBook II. Chap. iv. p. 91 (64).\\nHe is the first of the Ascenian Markgraves,\\nwhose castles of Ascanica is on the northern\\nslope of the Hartz Mountains, ruins still\\ndimly traceable.\\nThere had been no soldier or king of note\\namong the Ditmarsch Markgraves, so that you\\nwill do well to fix in your mind successively\\nthe three men, Henry the Fowler, St. Adal-\\nbert, and Albert the Bear. A soldier again,", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "216 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nand a strong one. Named the Bear only from\\nthe device on his shield, first wholly definite\\nMarkgraf of Brandenburg that there is, and\\nthat the luckiest of events for Brandenburg.\\nRead page 93 (66) carefully, and note this of\\nhis economies.\\n4 Nothing better is known to me of Albert\\nthe Bear than his introducing large numbers\\nof Dutch Netherlanders into those countries\\n-men thrown out of work, who already knew\\nhow to deal with bog and sand, by mixing\\nand delving, and who first taught Brandenburg\\nwhat greenness and cow-pasture was. The\\nWends, in presence of such things, could not\\nbut consent more and more to efface them-\\nselves either to become German, and grow\\nmilk and cheese in the Dutch manner, or to\\ndisappear from the world.\\n44 After two hundred and fifty years of bark-\\ning and worrying, the Wends are now finally\\nreduced to silence their anarchy well buried\\nand wholesome Dutch cabbage planted over\\nit; Albert did several great things in the\\nworld; but this, for posterity, remains his\\nmemorable feat. Not done quite easily, but\\ndone big destinies of nations or of persons are\\nnot founded gratis in this world. He had a\\nsore, toilsome time of it, coercing, warring,\\nmanaging among his fellow-creatures, while\\nhis day s work lasted fifty years or so, for it\\nbegan early. He died in his Castle of Ballen-\\nstadt, peaceably among the Hartz Mountains\\nat last, in the year 1170, age about sixty-five/", "height": "3849", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 217\\nNow, note in all this the steady gain of\\nsoldiership enforcing order and agriculture,\\nwith St. Adalbert giving higher strain to the\\nimagination. Henry the Fowler establishes\\nwalled towns, fighting for mere peace. Albert\\nthe Bear plants the country with cabbages,\\nfighting for his cabbage-fields. And the dis-\\nciples of St. Adalbert, generally, have suc-\\nceeded in substituting some idea of Christ for\\nthe idea of Triglaph. Some idea only other\\nideas than of Christ haunt even to this day\\nthose Hartz Mountains among which Albert\\nthe Bear died so peacefully. Mephistopheles,\\nand all his ministers, inhabit there, command-\\ning mephitic clouds and earth-born dreams.\\nVII.\\n1170 1320. Brandenburg 150 years under the Ascanien\\nMarkgraves.\\nVol. I. Book II. Chap. viii. p. 135 (96).\\n44 Wholesome Dutch cabbages continued to\\nbe more and more planted by them in the\\nwaste sand: intrusive chaos, and Triglaph\\nheld at bay by them, till at last in 1240,\\nseventy years after the great Bear s death,\\nthey fortify a new Bourg, a 44 little rampart/\\nWehrlin, diminutive of Wehr (or vallum),\\ngradually smoothing itself, with a little echo\\nof the Bear in it too, into Ber-lin, the oily\\nriver Spree flowing by, 44 in which you catch\\nvarious fish; while tracfe over the flats and\\nby the dull streams, is widely possible. Of\\nthe Ascanien race, the notablest is Otto with", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "218 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthe Arrow, whose story see, pp. 1 38-141\\n(98-109), noting that Otto is one of the first\\nMinnesingers; that, being a prisoner to the\\nArchbishop of Magdeburg, his wife rescues\\nhim, selling her jewels to bribe the canons;\\nand that the Knight, set free on parole and\\npromise of further ransom, rides back with his\\nown price in his hand holding himself thereat\\ncheaply bought, though no angelic legerdemain\\nhappens to the scales now. His own estimate\\nof his price Rain gold ducats on my war-\\nhorse and me, till you cannot see the point of\\nmy spear atop.\\nEmptiness of utter pride, you think?\\nNot so. Consider yourself, reader, how\\nmuch you dare to say, aloud, you are worth.\\nIf you have no courage to name any price\\nwhatsoever for yourself, believe me, the cause\\nis not your modesty, but that in ve^ truth\\nyou feel in your heart there would be no bid\\nfor you at Lucien s sale of lives, were that\\nagain possible, at Christie and Manson s.\\nFinally (13 19 exactly; say 1320, for memory),\\nthe Ascanien line expired in Brandenburg, and\\nthe little town and its electorate lapsed to the\\nKaiser: meantime other economical arrange-\\nments had been in progress but observe first\\nhow far we have got.\\nThe Fowler, St. Adalbert, and the Bear have\\nestablished order, and some sort of Christi-\\nanity; but the established persons begin to\\nthink somewhat too well of themselves. On\\nquite honest terms, a dead saint or a living\\nknight ought to be worth their true weight in", "height": "3826", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 219\\ngold. But a pyramid, with only the point of\\nthe spear seen at top, would be many times\\nover one s weight in gold. And although men\\nwere yet far enough from the notion of modern\\ndays, that the gold is better than the flesh,\\nand from buying it with the clay of one s body,\\nand even the fire of one s soul, instead of soul\\nand body with it, they were beginning to fight\\nfor their own supremacy, or for their own\\nreligious fancies, and not at all to any useful\\nend, until an entirely unexpected movement is\\nmade in the old useful direction forsooth, only\\nby some kind ship-captains of Lubeck!\\nVIII.\\n1210 1320. Civil work, aiding military, during the\\nAscanien period.\\nVol. I. Book II. Chap. vi. p. 109 (77).\\nIn the year 1 190, Acre not yet taken, and\\nthe crusading army wasting by murrain on the\\nshore, the German soldiers especially having\\nnone to look after them, certain compassionate\\nship-captains of Lubeck, one Walpot von Bas-\\nsenheim taking the lead, formed themselves\\ninto an union for succor of the sick and the\\ndying, set up canvas tents from the Lubeck\\nship stores, and did what utmost was in them\\nsilently in the name of mercy and heaven.\\nFinding its work prosper, the little medicinal\\nand weather-fending company took vows on\\nitself, strict chivalry forms, and decided to\\nbecome permanent Knights Hospitallers of\\nour dear Lady of Mount Zion, separate from", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "220 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nthe former Knights Hospitallers, as being\\nentirely German: yet soon, as the German\\nOrder of St. Mary, eclipsing in importance\\nTemplars, Hospitallers, and every other chiv-\\nalric order then extant; no purpose of battle\\nin them, but much strength for it; their pur-\\npose only the helping of German pilgrims. To\\nthis only they are bound by their vow, gel-\\nbude, and become one of the usefullest of\\nclubs in all the Pall Mall of Europe.\\nFinding pilgrimage in Palestine falling slack,\\nand more need for them on the homeward\\nside of the sea, their Hochmeister, Hermann\\nof the Salza. goes over to Venice in 1210.\\nThere, the titular bishop of still unconverted\\nPreussen advises him of that field of work for\\nhis idle knights. Hermann thinks well of it:\\nsets his St. Mary s riders at Triglaph, with\\nthe sword in one hand and a missal in the\\nother.\\nNot your modern way of effecting conver-\\nsion! Too illiberal, you think; and what\\nwould Mr. J. S. Mill say?\\nBut if Triglaph had been verily three\\nwhales cubs combined by boiling, you would\\nyourself have promoted attack on him for the\\nsake of his oil, would not you? The Teutsch\\nRitters, fighting him for charity, are they so\\nmuch inferior to you?\\nThey built, and burnt, innumerable stock-\\nade for and against built wooden forts which\\nare now stone towns. They fought much and\\nprevalently; galloped desperately to and fro,\\never on the alert. In peaceabler ulterior times,", "height": "3833", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 221\\nthey fenced in the Nogat and the Weichsel with\\ndams, whereby unlimited quagmire might\\nbecome grassy meadow as it continues to this\\nday. Marienburg (Mary s Burg), with its\\ngrand stone Schloss still visible and even hab-\\nitable this was at length their headquarters.\\nBut how many Burgs of wood and stone they\\nbuilt, in different parts; what revolts, sur-\\nprisals, furious fights in woody, boggy places\\nthey had no man has counted.\\nBut always some preaching by zealous\\nmonks, accompanied the chivalrous fighting.\\nAnd colonists came in from Germany trick-\\nling in, or at times streaming. Victorious\\nRitterdom offers terms to the beaten heathen\\nterms not of tolerant nature, but which will be\\npunctually kept by Ritterdom. When the\\nflame of revolt or general conspiracy burnt up\\nagain too extensively, high personages came\\non crusade to them. Ottocar, King of Bo-\\nhemia, with his extensive far-shining chivalry,\\nconquered Samland in a month; tore up the\\nRomove where Adalbert had been massacred,\\nand burnt it from the face of the earth. A\\ncertain fortress was founded at that time, in\\nOttocar s presence; and in honor of him they\\nnamed it King s Fortress, 4 Konigsberg.\\nAmong King Ottocar s esquires, or subaltern\\njunior officials, on this occasion, is one Rudolf,\\nheir of a poor Swiss lordship and gray hill\\ncastle, called Hapsburg, rather in reduced\\ncircumstances, whom Ottocar likes for his pru-\\ndent, hardy ways; a stout, modest, wise young", "height": "3771", "width": "2411", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "222 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nman, who may chance to redeem Hapsburg a\\nlittle, if he lives.\\n4 Conversion, and complete conquest once\\ncome, there was a happy time for Prussia;\\nploughshare instead of sword: busy sea-havens,\\nGerman towns, getting built churches every-\\nwhere rising; grass growing, and peaceable\\ncows, where formerly had beeen quagmire and\\nsnakes, and for the Order a happy time. On\\nthe whole, this Teutsch Ritterdom, for the\\nfirst century and more, was a grand phenom-\\nenon, and flamed like a bright blessed beacon\\nthrough the night of things, in those Northern\\ncountries. For above a century, we perceive,\\nit was the rallying place of all brave men who\\nhad a career to seek on terms other than vul-\\ngar. The noble soul, aiming beyond money,\\nand sensible to more than hunger in this\\nworld, had a beacon burning (as we say), if the\\nnight chanced to overtake it, and the earth to\\ngrow too intricate, as is not uncommon. Bet-\\nter than the career of stump-oratory, I should\\nfancy, and its Hesperides apples, golden, and\\nof gilt horse-dung. Better than puddling\\naway one s poor spiritual gift of God (loan, not\\ngift), such as it may be, in building the lofty\\nrhyme, the lofty review article, for a discern-\\ning public that has sixpence to spare! Times\\nalter greatly.\\nWe must pause here again for a moment to\\n*I would much rather print these passages of Carlyle\\nin large golden letters than small black ones but they\\nare only here at all for unlucky people who can t read\\nthem with the context.", "height": "3829", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 223\\nthink where we are, and who is with us. The\\nTeutsch Ritters have been fighting, indepen-\\ndently of all states, for their own hand, or St.\\nAdalbert s; partly for mere love of fight,\\npartly for love of order, partly for love of God.\\nMeantime, other Riders have been fighting\\nwholly for what they could get by it and other\\npersons, not Riders, have not been fighting at\\nall, but in their own towns peacefully manu-\\nfacturing and selling.\\nOf Henry the Fowler s Marches, Austria has\\nbecome a military power, Flanders a mercan-\\ntile one, pious only in the degree consistent\\nwith their several occupations. Prussia is\\nnow a practical and farming country, more\\nChristian than its longer-converted neighbors.\\nTowns are built, Konigsberg (King Otto-\\ncar s town), Thoren (Thorn, City of the Gates),\\nwith many others; so that the wild population\\nand the tame now lived tolerably together,\\nunder Gospel and Lubeck law; and all was\\nploughing and trading.\\nBut Brandenburg itself, what of it?\\nThe Ascanien Markgraves rule it on the\\nwhole prosperously down to 1320, when their\\nline expires, and it falls into the power of\\nImperial Austria.\\nIX.\\n1320 14 15\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Brandenburg under the Austrians.\\nA century the fourteenth of miserable\\nanarchy and decline for Brandenburg, its", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "224 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nKurfursts, in deadly succession, making what\\nthey can out of it for their own pockets. The\\ncity itself and its territory utterly helpless.\\nRead pp. 181 (129, 130). The towns suffered\\nmuch, and trade they might have had going to\\nwreck. Robber castles flourished, all else\\ndecayed, no higway safe. What are Hamburg\\npeddlers made for but to be robbed?\\nX.\\n141 5 1440. Brandenburg under Friedrich of Nurem-\\nberg.\\nThis is the fourth of the men whom you are\\nto remember as creators of the Prussian mon-\\narchy, Henry the Fowler, St. Adalbert, Albert\\nthe Bear, of Ascanien, and Friedrich of Nur-\\nemberg; (of Hohenzollern by name, and by\\ncountry of the Black Forest, north of the Lake\\nof Constance).\\nBrandenburg is sold to him at Constance, dur-\\ning the great Council, for about 5^200,000 of\\nour money, worth perhaps a million in that\\nday; still, with its capabilities, dog cheap.\\nAdmitting, what no one at the time denied,\\nthe general marketableness of states as private\\nproperty, this is the one practical result, thinks\\nCarlyle (not likely to think wrong), of that\\noecumenical deliberation, four years long, of\\nthe 4 elixir of the intellect and dignity of\\nEurope. And that one thing was not its\\ndoing; but a pawnbroking job, intercalated,\\nputting, however, at last, Brandenburg again\\nunder the will of one strong man. On St.", "height": "3833", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 225\\nJohn s Day, 1412, he first set foot in his town,\\n44 and Brandenburg, under its wise Kurfurst,\\nbegins to be cosmic again. The story of\\nHeavy Peg, pages 195-198 (138, 140), is one of\\nthe most brilliant and important passages of\\nthe first volume; page 199, specially to our\\npurpose, must be given entire\\n14 The offer to be Kaiser was made him in\\nhis old days; but he wisely declined that too.\\nIt was in Brandenburg, by what he silently\\nfounded there, that he did his chief benefit to\\nGermany and mankind. He understood the\\nnoble art of governing men had in him the\\njustness, clearness, valor, and patience needed\\nfor that. A man of sterling probity, for one\\nthing. Which indeed is the first requisite in\\nsaid art if you will have your laws obeyed\\nwithout mutiny, see well that they be pieces of\\nGod Almighty s law otherwise all the artillery\\nin the world would not keep down mutiny.\\n44 Friedrich traveled much over Braden-\\nburg looking into everything with his own\\neyes; making, I can well fancy, innumerable\\ncrooked things straight; reducing more and\\nmore that famishing dog-kennel of a Branden-\\nburg into a fruitful arable field. His portraits\\nrepresent a square-headed, mild-looking, solid\\ngentleman, with a certain twinkle of mirth in\\nthe serious eyes of him. Except in those Hus-\\nsite wars for Kaiser Sigismund and the Reich,\\nin which no man could prosper, he may be de-\\nfined as constantly prosperous. To Branden-\\nburg he was, very literally, the blessing of\\n15 Crown", "height": "3774", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "226 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nblessings redemption out of death into life.\\nIn the ruins of that old Friesack Castle, bat-\\ntered down by Heavy Peg, antiquarian science\\n(if it had any eyes) might look for the tap-\\nroot of the Prussian nation, and the beginning\\nof all that Brandenburg has since grown to\\nunder the sun.\\nWhich growth is now traced by Carlyle in its\\nvarious budding and withering, under the\\nsuccession of the twelve Electors, of whom\\nPriedrich, with his Heavy Peg is first, and\\nFriedrich, first King of Prussia, grandfather\\nof Friedrich the Great, the twelfth.\\nXI.\\n141 5 1 701. Brandenburg under the Hohenzollern Kur-\\nfursts.\\nBook III.\\nWho the Hohenzollerns were, and how they\\ncame to power in Nuremberg, is told in Chap.\\nv. of Book II.\\nTheir succession in Brandenburg is given in\\nbrief at page 377 (269). I copy it, in absolute\\nbarrenness of enumeration, for our momentary\\nconvenience, here\\nFriedrich 1st of Brandenburg (6th of\\nNuremberg) 141 2-1440\\nFriedrich II., called Iron Teeth .1440-1472\\nAlbert 1472-1486\\nJohann 1486-1499\\nJoachim I 1499-1535\\nJoachim II 1535-1571", "height": "3833", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 227\\nJohann George 1571-1598\\nJoachim Friedrich 1598-1608\\nJohann Sigismtmd 1608-1619\\nGeorge Wilhelm 1619-1640\\nFriedrich Wilhelm (the Great Elector) 1640-1688\\nFriedrich, first King; crowned 18th\\nJanuary f 1701\\nOf this line of Princes we have to say they\\nfollowed generally in their ancestor s steps, and\\nhad success of the like kind more or less;\\nHohenzollerns all of them, by character and\\nbehavior as well as by descent. No lack of\\nquiet energy, of thrift, sound sense. There\\nwas likewise solid fair play in general, no\\nfounding of yourself on ground that will not\\ncarry, and there was instant, gentle, but inex-\\norable crushing of mutiny, if it showed itself,\\nwhich, after the Second Elector, or at most\\nthe Third, it had altogether ceased to do.\\nThis is the general account of them; of\\nspecial matters note the following\\nII. Friedrich, called Iron Teeth, from his\\nfirmness, proves a notable manager and gov-\\nernor. Builds the palace at Berlin in its first\\nform, and makes it his chief residence. Buys\\nNeumark from the fallen Teutsch Ritters,\\nand generally establishes things on securer\\nfooting.\\nIII. Albert, a fiery, tough old gentleman,\\ncalled the Achilles of Germany in his day;\\nhas half-a-century of fighting with his own\\nNurembergers, with Bavaria, France, Bur-", "height": "3778", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "228 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ngundy and its fiery Charles, besides being head\\nconstable to the Kaiser among any disorderly\\npersons in the East. His skull, long shown on\\nhis tomb, marvelous for strength and with\\nno visible sutures.\\nIV. John, the orator of his race (but the\\norations unrecorded). His second son, Arch-\\nbishop of Maintz, for whose piece of memor-\\nable work see page 223 (143), and read in con-\\nnection with that the history of Markgraf\\nGeorge, pp. 237-241 (152-154), and the 8th\\nchapter of the third book.\\nV. Joachim, of little note thinks there has\\nbeen enough Reformation, and checks pro-\\nceedings in a dull stubbornness, causing him\\nat least grave domestic difficulties. Page 271\\n(i73).\\nVI. Joachim II. Again active in the\\nReformation, and staunch,\\nthough generally in a cautious, weighty never\\nin a rash, swift way, to the great cause of\\nProtestantism and to all good causes. He was\\nhimself a solemly devout man; deep, awe-\\nstricken reverence dwelling in his view of this\\nuniverse. Most serious, though with a jocose\\ndialect, commonly having a cheerful wit in\\nspeaking to men. Luther s books he called\\nhis Seelenschatz (soul s treasures) Luther and\\nthe Bible were his chief reading. Fond of\\nprofane learning, too, and of the useful or\\nornamental arts; given to music, and would\\nhimself sing aloud* when he had a melodious\\nleisure hour.", "height": "3847", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 229\\nVII. Johann George, a prudent thrifty Herr\\nno mistresses, no luxuries allowed at the sight\\nof a new-fashioned coat he would fly out on\\nan unhappy youth and pack him from his pres-\\nence. Very strict in point of justice a peasant\\nonce appealing to him in one of his inspection\\njourneys through the country\\n11 Grant me justice, Durchlaucht, against so\\nand so; I am your Highness s born subject.\\n4 Thou shouldst have it, man, wert thou a born\\nTurk! answered Johann George.\\nThus, generally, we find this line of Elec-\\ntors representing in Europe the Puritan mind\\nof England in a somewhat duller, but less\\ndangerous, form receiving what Protestantism\\ncould teach of honesty and common sense, but\\nnot its an ti- Catholic fury, or its selfish spiritual\\nanxiety. Pardon of sins is not to be had from\\nTetzel neither, the Hohenzollern mind advises\\nwith itself, from even Tetzel s master, for\\neither the buying or the asking. On the\\nwhole, we had better commit as few as pos-\\nsible, and live just lives and plain ones.\\nA conspicuous thrift, veracity, modest sol-\\nidity, looks through the conduct of this Herr;\\na determined Protestant he too, as indeed all\\nthe following were and are.\\nVIII. Joachim Friedrich. Gets hold of\\nPrussia, which hitherto, you observe, has\\nalways been spoken of as a separate country\\nfrom Brandenburg. March n, 1605\\nSqueezed his way into the actual guardian-\\n16", "height": "3781", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "230 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nship of Preussen and its imbecile Duke, which\\nwas his by right.\\nFor my own part, I do not trouble myself\\nmuch about these rights, never being able to\\nmake out any single one, to begin with, except\\nthe right to keep everything and every place\\nabout you in as good order as you can Prussia,\\nPoland, or what else. I should much like, for\\ninstance, just now, to hear of any honest\\nCornish gentleman of the old Drake breed tak-\\ning a fancy to land in Spain, and trying what\\nhe could make of his rights as far round Gib-\\nraltar as he could enforce them. At all\\nevents, Master Joachim has somehow got hold\\nof Prussia and means to keep it.\\nIX. Johann Sigismund. Only notable for\\nour economical purposes, as getting the\\n44 guardianship* of Prussia confirmed to him.\\nThe story at page 317 (226), a strong flame\\nof choler, indicates a new order of things\\namong the knights of Europe princely eti-\\nquettes melting all into smoke. Too literally\\nso, that being one of the calamitous functions\\nof the plain lives we are living, and of the busy\\nlife our country is living. In the Duchy of\\nCleve, especially, concerning which legal dis-\\npute begins in Sigismund s time. And it is\\nwell worth the lawyers trouble, it seems.\\nIt amounted, perhaps, to two Yorkshires\\nin extent. A naturally opulent country of fer-\\ntile meadows, shipping capabilities, metallifer-\\nous hills, and at this time, in consequence of\\nthe Dutch-Spanish war, and the multitude of", "height": "3830", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 231\\nProtestant refugees, it was getting filled with\\ningenious industries, and rising to be what it\\nstill is, the busiest quarter of Germany. A\\ncountry lowing with kine the hum of the flax-\\nspindle heard in its cottages in those old days\\nmuch of the linen called Hollands is made in\\nJulich, and only bleached, stamped, and sold\\nby the Dutch. says Busching. A coutitry in\\nour days which is shrouded at short intervals\\nwith the due canopy of coal-smoke, and loud\\nwith sounds of the anvil and the loom.\\nThe lawyers took two hundred and six years\\nto settle the question concerning this Duchy,\\nand the thing Johann Sigismund had claimed\\nlegally in 1609 was actually handed over to\\nJohann Sigismund s descendants in the seventh\\ngeneration. These litigated duchies are now\\nthe Prussian provinces, Julich, Berg, Cleve,\\nand the nucleus of Prussia s possessions in the\\nRhine country.\\nX. George Wilhelm. Read pp. 325 to 327\\n(23 1 333) on this Eelector and German Pro-\\ntestantism, now fallen old, and somewhat too\\nlittle dangerous. But George Wilhelm is the\\nonly weak prince of all the twelve. For\\nanother example how the heart and life of a\\ncountry depend upon its prince, not on its\\ncouncil, read this, Gustavus Adolphus, demand-\\ning the cession of Spandau and Kustrin\\nWhich cession Kurfurst George Wilhelm,\\nthough giving all his prayers to the good cause,\\ncould by no means grant. Gustav had to", "height": "3786", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "232 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\ninsist, with more and more emphasis, advanc-\\ning at last with military menace upon Berlin\\nitself. He was met by George Wilhelm and\\nhis Council, in the woods of Copenick, a short\\nway to the east of that city there George Wil-\\nhelm and his Council wandered about, sending\\nmessages, hopelessly consulting, saying among\\neach other, Que faire? ils ont des canons.\\nFor many hours so, round the inflexible Gus-\\ntav, who was there like a fixed milestone, and\\nto all questions and comers had only one\\nanswer.\\nOn our special question of war and its conse-\\nquences, read this of the Thirty Years one:\\nBut on the whole, the grand weapon in it,\\nand towards the latter times the exclusive one,\\nwas hunger. The opposing armies tried to\\nstarve one another; at lowest, tried each not to\\nstarve. Each trying to eat the country or, at\\nany rate, to leave nothing eatable in it what\\nthat will mean for the country we may con-\\nsider. As the armies too frequently, and the\\nKaiser s armies habitually, lived without com-\\nmissariat, often enough without pay, all hor-\\nrors of war and of being a seat of war, that\\nhave been since heard of, are poor to those then\\npracticed, the detail of which is still horrible\\nto read. Germany, in all eatable quarters of\\nit, had to undergo the process; tortured, torn\\nto pieces, wrecked, and brayed as in mortar,\\nunder the iron mace of war. Brandenburg\\nsaw its towns seized and sacked, its coun-", "height": "3853", "width": "2284", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 233\\ntry populations driven to despair by the one\\nparty and the other. Three times first in the\\nWallenstein- Mecklenburg times, while fire and\\nsword were the weapons, and again, twice over,\\nin the ultimate stages of the struggle, when\\nstarvation had become the method Branden-\\nburg fell to be the principal theater of conflict,\\nwhere all forms of the dismal were at their\\nheight. In 1638, three years after that preci-\\nous Peace of Prag, the ravages of the\\nstarving Gallas and his Imperialists excelled\\nall precedent, men ate human flesh, nay,\\nhuman creatures ate their own children. Que\\nfaire? ils ont des canons! M\\nWe have now arrived at the lowest nadir\\npoint (says Carlyle) of the history of Bran-\\ndenburg under the Hohenzollerns. Is this\\nthen all that Heavy Peg and our nine Kurfursts\\nhave done for us?\\nCarlyle does not mean that: but even he,\\ngreatest of historians since Tacitus, is not\\nenough careful to mark for us the growth of\\nnational character, as distinct from the pros-\\nperity of dynasties.\\nA republican historian would think of this\\ndevelopment only, and suppose it to be pos-\\nsible without any dynasties.\\nWhich is indeed in a measure so, and the\\nwork now chiefly needed in moral philosophy,\\nas well as history, is an analysis of the con-\\nstant and prevalent, yet unthought of, influ-\\nences, which, without any external help from\\nkings, and in a silent and entirely necessary\\nmanner, form, in Sweden, in Bavaria, in the", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "231 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nTyrol, in the Scottish border, and on the\\nFrench seacoast, races of noble peasants paci-\\nfic, poetic, heroic, Christian-hearted in the\\ndeepest sense, who may indeed perish by sword\\nor famine in any cruel thirty years war, or\\nignoble thirty years peace, and yet leave such\\nstrength to their children that the country,\\napparently ravaged into hopeless ruin, re-\\nvives, under any prudent king, as the culti-\\nvated fields do under the spring rain. How\\nthe rock to which no seed can cling, and which\\nno rain can soften, is subdued into the good\\nground which can bring forth its hundredfold,\\nwe forget to watch, while we follow the foot-\\nsteps of the sower, or mourn the catastrophe\\nof the storm. All this while, the Prussian\\nearth, the Prussian soul, has been thus\\ndealt upon by successive fate; and now,\\nthough laid, as it seems, utterly desolate, it\\ncan be revived by a few years of wisdom and\\nof peace.\\nVol. I. Book III. Chap, xviii.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Great\\nElector, Friedrich Wilhelm. Eleventh of the\\ndynasty\\n4 There hardly ever came to sovereign power\\na young man of twenty under more distress-\\ning, hopeless-looking circumstances. Political\\nsignificance Brandenburg had none; a mere\\nProtestant appendage, dragged about by a\\nPapist Kaiser, his father s Prime Minister, as\\nwe have seen, was in the interest of his ene-\\nmies; not Brandenburg s servant, but\\nAustria s. The very commandants of his fort-", "height": "3832", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 235\\nresses, Commandant of Spandau more espe-\\ncially, refused to obey Friedrich Wilhelm on\\nhis accession; were bound to obey the Kaiser\\nin the first place.\\n44 For twenty years past Brandenburg had\\nbeen scoured by hostile armies, which, espe-\\ncially the Kaiser s part of which, committed\\noutrages new in human history. In a year or\\ntwo hence, Brandenburg became again the\\ntheater of business. Austrian Gallas advanc-\\ning thither again (1644) with intent 4 to shut up\\nTorstenson and his Swedes in Jutland. Gal-\\nlas could by no means do what he intended;\\non the contrary, he had to run from Torsten-\\nson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 what feet could do; was hunted, he and\\nhis Merode Bruder (beautiful inventors of the\\nmarauding* art), till they pretty much all\\ndied (crepirten), says Kohler. No great loss\\nto society, the death of these artists, but we\\ncan fancy what their life, and especially what\\nthe process of their dying, may have cost poor\\nBrandenburg again!\\n44 Friedrich Wilhelm s aim, in this as in\\nother emergencies, was sun-clear to himself,\\nbut for most part dim to everybody else. He\\nhad to walk very warily, Sweden on one hand\\nof him, suspicious Kaiser on the other: he\\nhad to wear semblances, to be ready with eva-\\nsive words, and advance noiselessly by many\\ncircuits. More delicate operation could not\\nbe imagined. But advance he did; advance\\nand arrive. With extraordinary talent, dili-\\ngence, and felicity the young man wound him-\\nself out of this first fatal position, got those", "height": "3787", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "236 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nforeign armies pushed out of his country, and\\nkept them out. His first concern had been\\nto find some vestige of revenue, to put that\\nupon a clear footing, and by loans or other-\\nwise to scrape a little ready-money together.\\nOn the strength of which a small body of sol-\\ndiers could be collected about him, and drilled\\ninto real ability to fight and obey. This as a\\nbasis: on this followed all manner of things,\\nfreedom from Swedish-Austrian invasions, as\\nthe first thing. He was himself, as appeared\\nby-and-by, a fighter of the first quality, when\\nit came to that but never was willing to fight\\nif he could help it. Preferred rather to shift,\\nmanoeuvre, and negotiate, which he did in\\nmost vigilant, adroit, and masterly manner.\\nBut by degrees he had grown to have, and\\ncould maintain it, an army of 24,000 men,\\namong the best troops then in being.\\nTo wear semblances, to be ready with eva-\\nsive words, how is this, Mr. Carlyle? thinks\\nperhaps, the rightly thoughtful reader.\\nYes, such things have to be. There are lies\\nand lies, and there are truths and truths.\\nUlysses cannot ride on the ram s back, like\\nPhryxus; but must ride under his belly.\\nRead also this, presently following\\n4 Shortly after which, Friedrich Wilhelm\\nwho had shone much in the battle of Warsaw,\\ninto which he was dragged against his will,\\nchanged sides. An inconsistent, treacherous\\nman? Perhaps not, O reader! perhaps a man", "height": "3855", "width": "2277", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF AVILD OLIVE. 237\\nadvancing in circuits, the only way he has\\nspirally, face now east, now west, with his own\\nreasonable private aim sun-clear to him all\\nthe while?\\nThe battle of Warsaw, three days long,\\nfought with Gustavus, the grandfather of\\nCharles XII., against the Poles, virtually\\nends the Polish power\\nOld Johann Casimir, not long after that\\npeace of Olivia, getting tired of his unruly\\nPolish chivalry and their ways, abdicated re-\\ntired to Paris, and lived much with Ninon de\\nl Enclos and her circle/ for the rest of his life.\\nHe used to complain of his Polish chivalry,\\nthat there was no solidity in them nothing but\\noutside glitter, with tumult and anarchic\\nnoise; fatal want of one essential talent, the\\ntalent of obeying; and has been heard to pro-\\nphesy that a glorious Republic, persisting in\\nsuch courses would arrive at results which\\nwould surprise it.\\nOnward from this time, Friedrich Wilhelm\\nfigures in the world; public men watching his\\nprocedure; kings anxious to secure him\\nDutch print-sellers sticking up his portraits for\\na hero-worshipping public. Fighting hero,\\nhad the public known it, was not his essential\\ncharacter, though he had to fight a great deal.\\nHe was essentially an industrial man great\\nin organizing, regulating, in constraining\\nchaotic heaps to become cosmic for him. He\\ndrains bogs, settles colonies in the waste", "height": "3768", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "238 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nplaces of his dominion, cuts canals; unweari-\\nedly encourages trade and work. The\\nFriedrich Wilhelm s Canal, which still carries\\ntonnage from the Oder to the Spree, is a monu-\\nment of his zeal in this way creditable with\\nthe means he had. To the poor French Protes-\\ntants in the Edict-of-Nantes affair, he was like\\nan express benefit of Heaven; one helper\\nappointed to whom the help itself was profit-\\nable. He munificently welcomed them to\\nBrandenburg showed really a noble piety and\\nhuman pity, as well as judgment; nor did\\nBrandenburg and he want their reward. Some\\n20,000 nimble French souls, evidently of the\\nbest French quality, found a home there;\\nmade waste sands about Berlin into potherb\\ngardens; and in spiritual Brandenburg, too,\\ndid something of horticulture which is still\\nnoticeable.\\nNow read carefully the description of the\\nman, p. 352 (224-5) 5 the story of the battle of\\nFehrbellin, the Marathon of Brandenburg/\\np. 354 (225); and of the winter campaign of\\n1679, p. 356 (227), beginning with its week s\\nmarches at sixty miles a day;- his wife, as\\nalways, being with him\\nLouisa, honest and loving Dutch girl, aunt\\nto our William of Orange, who trimmed up\\nher own Orange-burg (country-house),\\ntwenty miles north of Berlin, into a little jewel\\nof the Dutch type, potherb gardens, training-\\nschools, for young girls, and the like, a favor-\\nite abode of hers when she was at liberty for", "height": "3814", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE. 239\\nrecreation. But her life was busy and ear-\\nnest she was helpmate, not in name only, to\\nan ever busy man. They were married young\\na marriage of love withal. Young Friedrich\\nWilhelm s courtship; wedding in Holland;\\nthe honest, trustful walk and conversation of\\nthe two sovereign spouses, their journeyings\\ntogether, their mutual hopes, fears, and mani-\\nfold vicissitudes, till death, with stern beauty,\\nshut it in all is human, true, and wholesome\\nin it, interesting to look upon, and rare among\\nsovereign persons.\\nLouisa died in 1667, twenty-one years before\\nher husband, who married again (little to his\\ncontentment) died in 1688; and Louisa s\\nsecond son, Friedrich, ten years old at his\\nmother s death, and now therefore thirty-one,\\nsucceeds, becoming afterward Friedrich I. of\\nPrussia.\\nAnd here we pause on two great questions.\\nPrussia is assuredly at this point a happier and\\nbetter country than it was when inhabited by\\nWends. But is Friedrich I. a happier and bet-\\nter man than Henry the Fowler? Have all\\nthese kings thus improved their country, but\\nnever themselves? Is this somewhat expen-\\nsive and ambitious Herr, Friedrich I., but-\\ntoned in diamonds, indeed the best that Protes-\\ntantism can produce, as against Fowlers,\\nBears, and Red Beards? Much more, Frie-\\ndrich Wilhelm, orthodox on predestination;\\nmost of all, his less orthodox son have we,\\nin these, the highest results which Dr. Martin", "height": "3777", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "240 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.\\nLuther can produce for the present, in the\\nfirst circles of society? And if not, how is it\\nthat the country, having gained so much in in-\\ntelligence and strength, lies more passively in\\ntheir power than the baser country did under\\nthat of nobler men?\\nThese, and collateral questions, I mean to\\nwork out as I can, with Carlyle s good help;\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nbut must pause for this time; in doubt, as\\nheretofore. Only of this one thing I doubt\\nnot, that the name of all great kings, set over\\nChristian nations, must at last be, in fulfill-\\nment, the hereditary one of these German\\nprinces, Rich in Peace; and that their coro-\\nnation will be with Wild Olive, not with gold.", "height": "3833", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "crownofwildolive01rusk_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "W. B. 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