ere a
man has vision for the essential God's-Truth of the things
jargoned of, will become very vain indeed. The silence of here
and there such a man, how eloquent in answer to such jargon!
Such jargon, frightened at its own gaunt echo, will unspeakably
abate; nay, for a while, may almost in a manner disappear,--the
wise answering it in silence, and even the simple taking cue from
them to hoot it down wherever heard. It will be a blessed time;
and many 'things' will become doable,--and when the brains are
out, an absurdity will die! Not easily again shall a Corn-Law
argue ten years for itself; and still talk and argue, when
impartial persons have to say with a sigh that, for so long back,
they have heard no 'argument' advanced for it but such as might
make the angels and almost the very jackasses weep!--

Wholly a blessed time: when jargon might abate, and here and
there some genuine speech begin. When to the noble opened heart,
as to such heart they alone do, all noble things began to grow
visible; and the difference between just and unjust, between
true and false, between work and sham-work, between speech and
jargon, was once more, what to our happier Fathers it used to be,
_infinite,_--as between a Heavenly thing and an Infernal: the
one a thing which you were _not_ to do, which you were wise not
to attempt doing; which it were better for you to have a
millstone tied round your neck, and be cast into the sea, than
concern yourself with doing!--Brothers, it will not be a
Morrison's Pill, or remedial measure, that will bring all this
about for us.

And yet, very literally, till, in some shape or other, it be
brought about, we remain cureless; till it begin to be brought
about, the cure does not begin. For Nature and Fact, not Redtape
and Semblance, are to this hour the basis of man's life; and on
those, through never such strata of these, man and his life and
all his interests do, sooner or later, infallibly come to rest,--
and to be supported or be swallowed according as they agree with
those. The question is asked of them, not, How do you agree with
Downing-streets and accredited Semblance? but, How do you agree
with God's Universe and the actual Reality of things? This
Universe _has_ its Laws. If we walk according to the Law, the
Law-Maker will befriend us; if not, not. Alas, by no Reform
Bill, Ballot-box, Five-point Charter, by no boxes or bills or
charters, can you perform this alchemy: '