Act, thy Word, into the ever-living, ever-working Universe: it is a
seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed to-day (says one), it will be found
flourishing as a Banyan-grove (perhaps, alas, as a Hemlock-forest!) after a
thousand years.

"He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of _Movable Types_
was disbanding hired Armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and
creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of
Printing. The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Charcoal drove
Monk Schwartz's pestle through the ceiling: what will the last do?
Achieve the final undisputed prostration of Force under Thought, of Animal
courage under Spiritual. A simple invention it was in the old-world
Grazier,--sick of lugging his slow Ox about the country till he got it
bartered for corn or oil,--to take a piece of Leather, and thereon scratch
or stamp the mere Figure of an Ox (or _Pecus_); put it in his pocket, and
call it _Pecunia_, Money. Yet hereby did Barter grow Sale, the Leather
Money is now Golden and Paper, and all miracles have been out-miracled:
for there are Rothschilds and English National Debts; and whoso has
sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands
cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over
him,--to the length of sixpence.--Clothes too, which began in foolishest
love of Ornament, what have they not become! Increased Security and
pleasurable Heat soon followed: but what of these? Shame, divine Shame
(_Schaam_, Modesty), as yet a stranger to the Anthropophagous bosom, arose
there mysteriously under Clothes; a mystic grove-encircled shrine for the
Holy in man. Clothes gave us individuality, distinctions, social polity;
Clothes have made Men of us; they are threatening to make Clothes-screens
of us.

"But, on the whole," continues our eloquent Professor, "Man is a Tool-using