“As for my particular, I am verily perswaded, that since that age (thirtie yeares), both my spirit and my body have more decreased than encreased, more recoyled than advanced. It may be that knowledge and experience shall encrease in them, together with life, that bestow their time well: but vivacitie, promptitude, constancie, and other parts much more our owne, more important, and more essentiall, they droope, they languish, and they faint.”— Montaigne ( Florio’s translation ). The ending of th

“Exile is when a man is for a crime condemned to depart out of the dominion of the commonwealth, or out of a certain part thereof, and during a prefixed time, or for ever, not to return to it; and seemeth not in its own nature, without other circumstances, to be a punishment; but rather an escape, or a public commandment to avoid punishment by flight.”— Hobbes’ Leviathan . The first to land in Meliora were a company of English Socialists, with whom a few of the best who so called themselves were

“This is the righteous maid, the comforter.” Thus ended the hopes of the West. The time that followed was one of wild confusion. Violence was the only law, and those who escaped in that terrible day yielded themselves in hopeless misery to the disorders they could not avert or control. Some few there always were who longed for order and peace, and mourned in silence for their lost leaders; but none had the courage to speak out. It was in these days that a ship of strange appearance was seen appr

The next day another great meeting was convened. Their deliverance and the manner of it had wrought a great change in many, especially in the less educated of the community, who experienced at that time a conversion —that reversal of the natural selfish state which makes self come last instead of first in the thoughts of a man, and which leads him also to realize a Presence in the Unseen. I mention this because it very much changed the nature of their deliberations. I do not say that these conve

How little any thought in those happy days from what quarter the storm of invasion would come, or how the whole order of the civilized world would be once more sunk under waves of barbarism! We might now indeed despair, only that as from each such wave in ages past a better world has risen than that which went before, from the depth of our trouble now may rise the best of all-the new earth to which the new Heaven shall come down....

A very interesting paper in a magazine of last century by Professor Seeley was the first prophecy of this European Court. See Macmillan’s Magazine , March, 1871....

The women. —Of course I do not here allude to the wives of the Anarchists, of whom some accompanied their husbands....

Troops. —This must not be understood as if national armies were then existing. The United States of Europe and America maintained a large military force, which was sent hither and thither, where needed, as representing the Power which preserved the order of the civilized world and controlled the still savage or unruly....

Burmah had before this time ceased to be governed by England, having insisted on “Home Rule.”...

The now reduced number of the Dacoits was felt to be no longer a cause of danger if the rest of the society were ordered and strong; for it will hereafter be shown that even a free association for the ordering of a state must be able to deal in some way with the disorderly. C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE....