This third edition, for instance, which should have been out four or five months ago, they are keeping, I suppose, for the millennium, encouraged probably by the spiritual manifestations; and _my_ personal manifestations meanwhile have as much weight with them as facts have with Faraday, or the theory of fair play with the London 'Athenaeum.' I am sick of it all, indeed.

I look down on it all as the epicurean gods do on the world without putting out a finger to save an empire; perhaps because they can't.

Long live the -- --, who are kings of us.

It's the best thing possible, I conclude, in this best of possible social economies, though for ourselves individually it may not be a very good thing; not precisely what we should choose.

Think of the separate book of outlines.