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Temple of the Brave, that there be a just real union as of
brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of
slave and master. If the union with England be in fact one of
Scotland's chief blessings, we thank Wallace withal that it was
not the chief curse. Scotland is not Ireland: no, because brave
men rose there, and said, "Behold, ye must not tread us down like
slaves; and ye shall not,--and cannot!" Fight on, thou brave
true heart, and falter not, through dark fortune and through
bright. The cause thou fightest for, so far as it is true, no
farther, yet precisely so far, is very sure of victory. The
falsehood alone of it will be conquered, will be abolished, as it
ought to be: but the truth of it is part of Nature's own Laws,
cooperates with the World's eternal Tendencies, and cannot
be conquered.

The _dust_ of controversy, what is it but the _falsehood_ flying
off from all manner of conflicting true forces, and making such a
loud dust-whirlwind,--that so the truths alone may remain, and
embrace brother-like in some true resulting-force! It is ever
so. Savage fighting Heptarchies: their fighting is an
ascertainment, who has the right to rule over whom; that out of
such waste-bickering Saxondom a peacefully cooperating England
may arise. Seek through this Universe; if with other than owl's
eyes, thou wilt find nothing nourished there, nothing kept in
life, but what has right to nourishment and life. The rest, look
at it with other than owl's eyes, is not living; is all dying,
all as good as dead! Justice was ordained from the foundations
of the world; and will last with the world and longer.

From which I infer that the inner sphere of Fact, in this present
England as elsewhere, differs infinitely from the outer sphere
and spheres of Semblance. That the Temporary, here as elsewhere,
is too apt to carry it over the Eternal. That he who dwells in
the temporary Semblances, and does not penetrate into the eternal
Substance, will _not_ answer the Sphinx-riddle of Today, or of
any Day. For the substance alone is substantial; that is the
law of Fact: if you discover not that, Fact, who already knows
it, will let you also know it by and by!

What is justice? that, on the whole, is the question of the
Sphinx to us. The law of Fact is, that justice must and will be
done. The sooner the better; for the Time grows stringent,
frightfully pressing! "What is justice?" ask many, t