is more true, but because it is a
more _advanced_ truth, and one step nearer, therefore, to the final
solution,_ which will then lap back, and subsume and assimilate and
reconcile the whole family of fundamental principles upon which the
existence of human society is inexpugnably based_. It is upon this lower
ground of adaptation to the exigency of the age and the occasion, and as
a means to the development of still higher truths, that we urge the
inestimable importance of the effectual conquest over the South by the
North.

But the two Principles, thus brought face to face with each other, in
deadly array, under the present guise of chattel slavery and republican
freedom, are not extinguished in the world, nor in America even, nor are
they to be permanently reconciled with each other by any outcoming
whatsoever of the present war. These principles are the Aristocratic and
the Democratic; the principle of conservative order and progressive
freedom. Both are vital and essential forces, ever living, ever active;
always antagonistic; never reconciled in the past; never to be
reconciled in the future, till it be done finally, effectually,
and forever, through the SCIENCE of the subject. By the
contingencies of this war still future, by the lingering and disastrous
_sequelae_ of the war, or by other and possible eventualities not yet
sufficiently developed to be distinctly cognizable, the inherent and
unconquerable antagonism (until reconciled through science) of the great
opposing forces in human society is liable to be burst upon us with a
conflagration in comparison with which even the devastations of the
present war will seem trifling. The writer of these papers anticipated
and predicted for a long time, and has not yet fully ceased to
anticipate, that the present conflict may gradually shape itself into a
desperate and universal struggle, North and South, between these two
principles, in their bald, undisguised, and unmitigated hostility; that,
in other words, as a party of freedom should be developed at the South,
there would be developed _pari passu_ at the North a great reactionary
party; assimilating the elements of a _bogus_ democracy and all those
who by organization or position are inherently and overweeningly
aristocratic; a party bold, powerful, and desperate enough to bring home
the civil war to our own doors; in other words, that the war would
become a war wholly of Ideas; and those defined down to their shar