Socialism, disappointed of its Utopia, may then repeat the familiar lesson and reproduce the man-on-horseback, or the world may drop into another abyss, and, after the ensuing “dark ages,” like those that swallowed Babylon and Tyre, Greece and Rome, emerge with a new civilization and religion.
Watterson reflects on the potential outcomes of failed socialist movements and their historical consequences.
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Too many churches—or, shall I say, church fabrics—breeding controversy where there should be agreement, each sect and subdivision fighting phantoms of its fancy.
With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.
But my face in the glass I’ll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow— That this worn-out old stuff which is thread-bare to-day Shall become everlasting to-morrow.
Yet it is after all a figure of speech not a personality that appeals to our sense of duty without necessarily engaging our affection.
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