democracy. But aristocracy is not wholly wrong, nor is
democracy wholly right, in the nature and constitution of things. These
are two great antagonistic principles, when sifted to the bottom; one
the principle of Order, through Subordination, the soul of Conservatism;
and the other the principle of Freedom, through Individuality, the soul
of Progression. Neither will ever expunge or expel the other from the
constitution of man, individually or collectively; and it pertains to
Science, the Science of Politics, based on the Unity of the Sciences
below that level, to be arrived at by humanity in the future, to
discover and lead in the complete harmony and reconciliation between the
two. The writer of these papers has in manuscript a labored document
upon the Slavery question from this more radical and philosophical point
of view, which was prepared just previous to the outbreak of the
existing war, in the hope of attracting the leading minds, North and
South, to the peaceable and scientific solution of the whole Slavery
question. But the antagonism was too far advanced, passions too much
aroused, the popular ignorance of the existence of higher methods of
solution too dense, and the crisis too imminent for the existence of any
demand for such considerations then; and the publication of the document
was withheld. In it were shown the significance of Slavery as a Fact in
History and a Principle in Nature; its Compensations and Advantages; its
positive value, in fact, in the larger sense, in the development of
human society on the planet; then its destiny to give way in our
advancing civilization to the higher doctrine of abstract rights and
individual culture through intellectual means; and again, the
insufficiency of the latter doctrine, when taken for the whole truth;
and finally, to show how, by the intervention of the science of the
subject, the value of both the Principles in conflict could be extracted
and made cooeperative, and their evils completely neutralized. The world
not being ripe for the adoption of the superior and rational methods
here intimated for the adjustment of our difficulties--the readiness of
one party even, without the equal readiness of the other, being
inadequate--the crisis and the conflict could not be averted; and that
again being the case, it is of the utmost importance that the second in
order of the two adverse principles, the principle of democracy, be
completely triumphant; not because it