This mad state of matters will of course before long allay
itself, as it has everywhere begun to do; the ordinary
necessities of men's daily existence cannot comport with it, and
these, whatever else is cast aside, will have their way. Some
remounting--very temporary remounting--of the old machine, under
new colors and altered forms, will probably ensue soon in most
countries: the old histrionic Kings will be admitted back under
conditions, under "Constitutions," with national Parliaments, or
the like fashionable adjuncts; and everywhere the old daily life
will try to begin again. But there is now no hope that such
arrangements can be permanent; that they can be other than poor
temporary makeshifts, which, if they try to fancy and make
themselves permanent, will be displaced by new explosions
recurring more speedily than last time. In such baleful
oscillation, afloat as amid raging bottomless eddies and
conflicting sea-currents, not steadfast as on fixed foundations,
must European Society continue swaying, now disastrously
tumbling, then painfully readjusting itself, at ever shorter
intervals,--till once the _new_ rock-basis does come to light,
and the weltering deluges of mutiny, and of need to mutiny, abate
again!

For universal _Democracy_, whatever we may think of it, has
declared itself as an inevitable fact of the days in which we
live; and he who has any chance to instruct, or lead, in his
days, must begin by admitting that: new street-barricades, and
new anarchies, still more scandalous if still less sanguinary,
must return and again return, till governing persons everywhere
know and admit that. Democracy, it may be said everywhere, is