They are of the set deserving to be called--and this not in the
way of profane swearing, but of solemn wrath and pity, I say of
virtuous anger and inexorable reprobation--the damned set. For, in
very deed, they are doomed and damned, by Nature's oldest Act of
Parliament, they, and whatsoever thing they do or say or think;
unless they can escape from that devil-element. Which I still hope
they may!--

"But with regard to the facts themselves, 'DE NOTRE MAISON,'
I take leave to say, they too are without basis of truth. They are
not so false as the theory, because nothing can in falsity quite
equal that. 'NOTRE MAISON,' this Pamphleteer may learn, if he
please to make study and inquiry before speaking, did not rise by
worship of Beelzebub at all in this world; but by a quite opposite
line of conduct. It rose, in fact, by the course which all, except
fools, stockjobber stags, cheating gamblers, forging Pamphleteers
and other temporary creatures of the damned sort, have found from
of old to be the one way of permanently rising: by steady service,
namely, of the Opposite of Beelzebub. By conforming to the Laws of
this Universe; instead of trying by pettifogging to evade and
profitably contradict them. The Hohenzollerns too have a History
still articulate to the human mind, if you search sufficiently;
and this is what, even with some emphasis, it will teach us
concerning their adventures, and achievements of success in the
field of life. Resist the Devil, good reader, and he will flee
from you!"--So ends our indignant friend.

How the Hohenzollerns got their big Territories, and came to what
they are in the world, will be seen. Probably they were not, any
of them, paragons of virtue. They did not walk in altogether