for little! Say Two Centuries yet,--say even Ten of such a process:
before the Old is completely burnt out, and the New in any state of
sightliness? Millennium of Anarchies;--abridge it, spend your
heart's-blood upon abridging it, ye Heroic Wise that are to come!
For it is the consummation of All the Anarchies that are and were;
--which I do trust always means the death (temporary death) of
them! Death of the Anarchies: or a world once more built wholly on
Fact better or worse; and the lying jargoning professor of Sham-
Fact, whose name is Legion, who as yet (oftenest little conscious
of himself) goes tumulting and swarming from shore to shore, become
a species extinct, and well known to be gone down to Tophet!--

There were bits of Anarchies before, little and greater: but till
that of France in 1789, there was none long memorable; all were
pygmies in comparison, and not worth mentioning separately.
In 1772 the Anarchy of Poland, which had been a considerable
Anarchy for about three hundred years, got itself extinguished,--
what we may call extinguished;--decisive surgery being then first
exercised upon it: an Anarchy put in the sure way of extinction.
In 1775, again, there began, over seas, another Anarchy much more
considerable,--little dreaming that IT could be called an Anarchy;
on the contrary, calling itself Liberty, Rights of Man; and singing
boundless Io-Paeans to itself, as is common in such cases;
an Anarchy which has been challenging the Universe to show the like
ever since. And which has, at last, flamed up as an independent
Phenomenon, unexampled in the hideously SUICIDAL way;--and does
need much to get burnt out, that matters may begin anew on truer
conditions. But neither the PARTITION OF POLAND nor the AMERICAN
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE have much general importance, or, except as
precursors of 1789, are worth dwelling on in History. From us here,