Annihilation of Self. Belief in God, and love to Man. The
origin of Evil, a problem ever requiring to be solved anew:
Teufelsdroeckh's solution. Love of Happiness a vain whim: A
Higher in man than Love of Happiness. The Everlasting Yea.
Worship of Sorrow. Voltaire: his task now finished. Conviction
worthless, impossible, without Conduct. The true Ideal, the
Actual: Up and work! (p. 138).

CHAP. X. _Pause_

Conversion; a spiritual attainment peculiar to the modern Era.
Teufelsdroeckh accepts Authorship as his divine calling. The
scope of the command _Thou shalt not steal_.--Editor begins to
suspect the authenticity of the Biographical documents; and
abandons them for the great Clothes volume. Result of the
preceding ten Chapters: Insight into the character of
Teufelsdroeckh: His fundamental beliefs, and how he was forced
to seek and find them (p. 149).

BOOK III

CHAP. I. _Incident in Modern History_

Story of George Fox the Quaker; and his perennial suit of
Leather. A man God-possessed, witnessing for spiritual freedom
and manhood (p. 156).

CHAP. II. _Church-Clothes_

Church-Clothes defined; the Forms under which the Religious
principle is temporarily embodied. Outward Religion originates
by Society: Society becomes possible by Religion. The
condition of Church-Clothes in our time (p. 161).

CHAP. III. _Symbols_

The benignant efficacies of Silence and Secrecy. Symbols;
revelations of the Infinite in the Finite: Man everywhere
encompassed by them; lives and works by them. Theory of
Motive-millwrights, a false account of human nature. Symbols
of an extrinsic value; as Banners, Standards: Of intrinsic
value; as Works of Art, Lives and Deaths of Heroic men.
Religious Symbols; Christianity. Symbols hallowed by Time; but
finally defaced and desecrated. Many superannuated Symbols in
our time, needing removal (p. 163).

CHAP. IV. _Helotage_

Heuschrecke's Malthusian Tract, and Teufelsdroeckh's marginal
notes thereon. The true workman, for daily bread, or spiritual
bread, to be honoured; and no other. The real privation of the
Poor not poverty or toil, but ignorance. Over-population: With
a world like ours and wide as ours, can there be too many men?
Emigration (p. 170).

CHAP. V. _The Phoenix_

Teufelsdroeckh considers Society as _dead_; its soul
(Rel