Modern society contains within itself the
seed of its own destruction,--the most utter Nihilist that ever swore
deadly oath need but contain his soul in patience and allow the seed to
ripen. For God's justice is as a circle that slowly surrounds an evil
and as slowly closes on it with crushing and resistless force,--and
feverish, fretting humanity, however nobly inspired, can do nothing
either to hasten or retard the round, perfect, absolute and Divine Law.
So let the babes of the world play on, and let us not frighten them with
stories of earthquakes; they are miserable enough as it is, believe
it!--their toys are so brittle, and snap in their feeble hands so
easily, that one is inclined to pity them! And Awning Avenue, with its
borrowed verdure and artificial light, is frequently erected for the use
of some of the most wretched among the children of the earth,--children
who have trifled with and lost everything,--love, honor, hope, and
faith, and who are travelling rapidly to the grave with no consolation
save a few handfuls, of base coin, which they must, perforce, leave
behind them at the last.
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