the supreme scoundrel always accurately the first hanged, this,
which presupposes that the supreme hero were always the first
promoted, this were precisely the millennium itself, clear
evidence that the millennium had come: alas, we must forbear
hope of this. Much water will run by before we see this.

And yet to quit all aim towards it; to go blindly floundering
along, wrapt up in clouds of horsehair, bombazine, and sheepskin
officiality, oblivious that there exists such an aim; this is
indeed fatal. In every human law there must either exist such an
aim, or else the law is not a human but a diabolic one.
Diabolic, I say: no quantity of bombazine, or lawyers' wigs,
three-readings, and solemn trumpeting and bow-wowing in high
places or in low, can hide from me its frightful infernal
tendency;--bound, and sinking at all moments gradually to
Gehenna, this "law;" and dragging down much with it! "To decree
_injustice_ by a _law_:" inspired Prophets have long since seen,
what every clear soul may still see, that of all Anarchies and
Devil-worships there is none like this; that this is the
"Throne of Iniquity" set up in the name of the Highest, the human
Apotheosis of Anarchy itself. "_Quiet_ Anarchy," you exultingly
say? Yes; quiet Anarchy, which the longer it sits "quiet" will
have the frightfuler account to settle at last. For every doit
of the account, as I often say, will have to be settled one day,
as sure as God lives. Principal, and compound interest
rigorously computed; and the interest is at a terrible rate per
cent in these cases! Alas, the aspect of certain beatified
Anarchies, sitting "quiet;" and of others in a state of infernal
explosion for sixty years back: this, the one view our Europe
offers at present, makes these days very sad.--