ll that we touch and handle, speak
and work; kindling ever new light, by incalculable contagion,
spreading in geometric ratio, far and wide,--doing good only,
wheresoever it spreads, and not evil.

By Reform Bills, Anti-Corn-Law Bills, and thousand other bills
and methods, we will demand of our Governors, with emphasis, and
for the first time not without effect, that they cease to be
quacks, or else depart; that they set no quackeries and
blockheadisms anywhere to rule over us, that they utter or act no
cant to us,--that it will be better if they do not. For we shall
now know quacks when we see them; cant, when we hear it, shall
be horrible to us! We will say, with the poor Frenchman at the
Bar of the Convention, though in wiser style than he, and 'for
the space' not 'of an hour' but of a lifetime: _"Je demande
l'arrestation des coquins et des laches."_ 'Arrestment of the
knaves and dastards:' ah, we know what a work that is; how long
it will be before _they_ are all or mostly got 'arrested:'--but
here is one; arrest him, in God's name; it is one fewer! We
will, in all practicable ways, by word and silence, by act
and refusal to act, energetically demand arrestment,--_"le
demande cette arrestation-la!"_--and by degrees infallibly
attain it. Infallibly: for light spreads; all human
souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled
spreads, till all is luminous;--till the cry, "_Arrest_ your
knaves and dastards rises imperative from millions of hearts, and
rings and reigns from sea to sea. Nay, how many of them may we
not 'arrest' with our own hands, even now; we! Do not
countenance them, thou there: turn away from their lackered
sumptuosities, their belauded sophistries, their serpent
graciosities, their spoken and acted cant, with a sacred horror,
with an _Apage Satanas._--Bobus and Company, and all men will
gradually join us. We demand arrestment of the knaves and
dastards, and begin by arresting our own poor selves out of that
fraternity. There is no other reform conceivable. Thou and I,
my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us,
_one_ non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes
to begin with:--Courage! even that is a whole world of heroes to
end with, or what we poor Two can do in furtherance thereof!

Yes, friends: Hero-kings and a whole world not unheroic, there
lies the port and happy haven, towards which, through all these
stormtost seas, Fre