come out with me to the new gods!..."

But we must make allowance for these girds and gibes at Democracy, of
which we have given a specimen. Khalid's irony bites so deep at times
as to get at the very bone of truth. And here is the marrow of it. We
translate the following prophecy with which he closes his Chapter "In
Prison," and with it, too, we close ours.

"But my faith in man," he swears, "is as strong as my faith in
God. And as strong, too, perhaps, is my faith in the future
world-ruling destiny of America. To these United States shall
the Nations of the World turn one day for the best model of good
Government; in these United States the well-springs of the
higher aspirations of the soul shall quench the thirst of every
race-traveller on the highway of emancipation; and from these
United States the sun and moon of a great Faith and a great Art
shall rise upon mankind. I believe this, billah! and I am
willing to go on the witness stand to swear to it. Ay, in this
New World, the higher Superman shall rise. And he shall not be
of the tribe of Overmen of the present age, of the beautiful
blond beast of Zarathustra, who would riddle mankind as they
would riddle wheat or flour; nor of those political moralists
who would reform the world as they would a parish.

"From his transcendental height, the Superman of America shall
ray forth in every direction the divine light, which shall
mellow and purify the spirit of Nations and strengthen and
sweeten the spirit of men, in this New World, I tell you, he
shall be born, but he shall not be an American in the Democratic
sense. He shall be nor of the Old World nor of the New; he shall
be, my Brothers, of both. In him shall be reincarnated the
Asiatic spirit of origination, of Poesy and Prophecy, and the
European spirit of Art, and the American spirit of Invention.
Ay, the Nation that leads the world to-day in material progress
shall lead it, too, in the future, in the higher things of the
mind and soul. And when you reach that height, O beloved
America, you will be far from the majority-rule, and Iblis, and
Juhannam. And you will then conquer those 'enormous mud
Megatheriums' of which Carlyle makes loud mention."

CHAPTER II

SUBTRANSCENDENTAL

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and
import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always
vivacious, always working under va