deserter from the ranks where all men, at their eternal peril,
are bound to be: palpable deserter, taken with the red band
fighting thus against the whole Universe and its Laws, we--send
thee back into the whole Universe, solemnly expel thee from our
community; and will, in the name of God, not with joy and
exultation, but with sorrow stern as thy own, hang thee on
Wednesday next, and so end."

Other ground on which to deliberately slay a disarmed fellow-man
I can see none. Example, effects upon the public mind, effects
upon this and upon that: all this is mere appendage and
accident; of all this I make no attempt to keep
account,--sensible that no arithmetic will or can keep account of
it; that its "effects," on this hand and on that, transcend all
calculation. One thing, if I can calculate it, will include all,
and produce beneficial effects beyond calculation, and no ill
effect at all, anywhere or at any time: What the Law of the
Universe, or Law of God, is with regard to this caitiff? That,
by all sacred research and consideration, I will try to find out;
to that I will come as near as human means admit; that shall be
my exemplar and "example;" all men shall through me see that, and
be profited _beyond_ calculation by seeing it.

What this Law of the Universe, or Law made by God, is? Men at
one time read it in their Bible. In many Bibles, Books, and
authentic symbols and monitions of Nature and the World (of Fact,
that is, and of Human Speech, or Wise Interpretation of Fact),
there are still clear indications towards it. Most important it
is, for this and for some other reasons, that men do, in some
way, get to see it a little! And if no man could now see it by