Capitolo 74
of old-established dogma. The gentlemen of country and the priests of the
period--you call them clerks or diviners--the hold their hands in desperation, and
cries to tall voice that they doesn't know that al which the world is coming. But, later
all, are only the stage of chrysalis of a new system. The social old man
order must be breaks up and chaotic in front of the social and new order
you start to evolve from him. The establishment of a plastic consistence in
the mass is the precedent of condition of the tallest development.
Not, clearly, that this consideration a wheat will ever allow him of
you comfort to the gentlemen of country and the priests of every following epoch; for
of what lack of _they_ the reasonable improvement is not the whole social
organism but the duration of only this particular type of squiredom
and parsonry. That is what they means from "national welfare; " and some
interference with him they criticizes in every century with the tide
equivalent for the Conservative and family formula to which "the country is going
the devil."
Sometimes these great social reconstructions of which I speak are forced
on the communities from external factors that interfere with them fixed
inside order, as happened when the influx of northern barbarians broke
on to decay and rotten organism of the Roman empire. Sometimes,
of, new they happens from inside causes, in an acute, and so to speak,
inflammatory condition, as to the French Revolution. But sometimes, as
in our his/her own time and country, they is brought around slowly from organic
development, as really to resemble to in all the essential points the
type of chrysalis of the evolution. Politically, socially, theologically,
ethically, the old fixed beliefs seem to such periods to grow fluid or
plastic. The New feelings and the habits and the aspirations have their place. For a
while a general chaos of contradictory opinions and the dawning ideas it is
product. The mass for the time being it seems amorphous and illegal. Then new
you order down supervenes as the chests of magma and it starts to crystallize;