Professors of the Dismal Science, start up in an agitated
vehement manner: but the Premier resolutely beckons them down
again_]--Regiments not to fight the French or others, who are
peaceable enough towards us; but to fight the Bogs and
Wildernesses at home and abroad, and to chain the Devils of the
Pit which are walking too openly among us.

"Work, for you? Work, surely, is not quite undiscoverable in an
Earth so wide as ours, if we will take the right methods for it!
Indigent friends, we will adopt this new relation (which is _old_
as the world); this will lead us towards such. Rigorous
conditions, not to be violated on either side, lie in this
relation; conditions planted there by God Himself; which woe will
betide us if we do not discover, gradually more and more
discover, and conform to! Industrial Colonels, Workmasters,
Task-masters, Life-commanders, equitable as Rhadamanthus and
inflexible as he: such, I perceive, you do need; and such, you
being once put under law as soldiers are, will be discoverable
for you. I perceive, with boundless alarm, that I shall have to
set about discovering such,--I, since I am at the top of affairs,
with all men looking to me. Alas, it is my new task in this New
Era; and God knows, I too, little other than a red-tape
Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence
hitherto, am far behind with it! But street-barricades rise
everywhere: the hour of Fate has come. In Connemara there has
sprung a leak, since the potato died; Connaught, if it were not
for Treasury-grants and rates-in-aid, would have to recur to
Cannibalism even now, and Human Society would cease to pretend
that it existed there. Done this thing must be. Alas, I
perceive that if I cannot do it, then surely I shall die, and