Your _Herzog_ (Duke,
_Dux_) is Leader of Armies; your Earl (_Jarl_) is Strong Man; your
Marshal cavalry Horse-shoer. A Millennium, or reign of Peace and
Wisdom, having from of old been prophesied, and becoming now daily
more and more indubitable, may it not be apprehended that such
Fighting-titles will cease to be palatable, and new and higher need to
be devised?

'The only Title wherein I, with confidence, trace eternity, is that of
King. _Koenig_ (King), anciently _Koenning_, means Ken-ning (Cunning),
or which is the same thing, Can-ning. Ever must the Sovereign of
Mankind be fitly entitled King.'

'Well, also,' says he elsewhere, 'was it written by Theologians: a
King rules by divine right. He carries in him an authority from God,
or man will never give it him. Can I choose my own King? I can choose
my own King Popinjay, and play what farce or tragedy I may with him:
but he who is to be my Ruler, whose will is to be higher than my will,
was chosen for me in Heaven. Neither except in such Obedience to the
Heaven-chosen is Freedom so much as conceivable.'

* * * * *

The Editor will here admit that, among all the wondrous provinces of
Teufelsdroeckh's spiritual world, there is none he walks in with such
astonishment, hesitation, and even pain, as in the Political. How,
with our English love of Ministry and Opposition, and that generous
conflict of Parties, mind warming itself against mind in their mutual
wrestle for the Public Good, by which wrestle, indeed, is our
invaluable Constitution kept warm and alive; how shall we domesticate
ourselves in this spectral Necropolis, or rather City both of the Dead
and of the Unborn, where the Present seems little other than an
inconsiderable Film dividing the Past and the Future? In those dim
longdrawn expanses, all is so immeasurable; much so disastrous,
ghastly; your very radiances and straggling light-beams have a
supernatural character. And then with such an indifference, such a
prophetic peacefulness (accounting the inevitably coming as already
here, to him all one whether it be distant by centuries or only by
days), does he sit;--and live, you would say, rather in any other age
than in his own! It is our painful duty to announce, or repeat, that,
looking into this man, we discern a deep, silent, slow-burning,
inextinguishable Radicalism, such as fills us with shuddering
admiration.

Thus, for example, he appears to make little even of t