tremendous cheers upon it is yet come, or not yet by a great way,
I perceive too well! A business to make us all very serious
indeed. A business not to be accomplished but by noble manhood,
and devout all-daring, all-enduring loyalty to Heaven, such as
fatally _sleeps_ at present,--such as is not _dead_ at present
either, unless the gods have doomed this world of theirs to die!
A business which long centuries of faithful travail and heroic
agony, on the part of all the noble that are born to us, will not
end; and which to us, of this "tremendous cheering" century, it
were blessedness very great to see successfully begun. Begun,
tried by all manner of methods, if there is one wise Statesman or
man left among us, it verily must be;--begun, successfully or
unsuccessfully, we do hope to see it!


In all European countries, especially in England, one class of
Captains and commanders of men, recognizable as the beginning of
a new real and not imaginary "Aristocracy," has already in some
measure developed itself: the Captains of Industry;--happily the
class who above all, or at least first of all, are wanted in this
time. In the doing of material work, we have already men among
us that can command bodies of men. And surely, on the other
hand, there is no lack of men needing to be commanded: the sad
class of brother-men whom we had to describe as "Hodge's
emancipated horses," reduced to roving famine,--this too has in
all countries developed itself; and, in fatal geometrical
progression, is ever more developing itself, with a rapidity
which alarms every one. On this ground, if not on all manner of
other grounds, it may be truly said, the "Organization of Labor"
(_not_ organizable by the mad methods tried hitherto) is the