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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The island of anarchy - A fragment of history in the 20th century - -Authors: Elizabeth Hodgkin Waterhouse - Edwin Waterhouse - -Release Date: November 30, 2022 [eBook #69449] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading - Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from - images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ISLAND OF ANARCHY *** - - - - - - The Island of Anarchy. - A Fragment of History in the 20th Century. - - - BY - - E. W. - - “Bind thyself with one cord.” - -[Illustration] - - PUBLISHED BY MISS LANGLEY, - LOVEJOY’S LIBRARY, READING. - 1887. - - - - - Chiswick Press: - Charles Whittingham and Co., - Tooks Court, London. - - - - - THE ISLAND OF - ANARCHY. - - - - - CHAPTER I. - - “As for my particular, I am verily perswaded, that since that age - (thirtie yeares), both my spirit and my body have more decreased than - encreased, more recoyled than advanced. It may be that knowledge and - experience shall encrease in them, together with life, that bestow - their time well: but vivacitie, promptitude, constancie, and other - parts much more our owne, more important, and more essentiall, they - droope, they languish, and they faint.”—MONTAIGNE (_Florio’s - translation_). - - -The ending of the nineteenth century, like that of the eighteenth, was a -time of terrible and strange things, as if it were coming to be the law -of human affairs that the sunsets of the centuries should be red with a -“Terror” and dark with despair. - -In England—then, as in the past, the refuge of banished men—social -disorder reached a height that would soon have driven all her quiet -dwellers to seek more peaceful homes on the other side of the globe, had -not a new and strange thing changed the whole aspect of affairs. - -It began to be perceived, and was soon widely acknowledged, that the -cause of the great weakness and futility of our government lay in the -advanced age of those by whom the most important offices were held. Age -is wont to trifle, to take things lightly, and to study life, of which -it can at best hope to possess so little, from a frivolous and temporary -point of view. - -“Things are well enough as they are,” say they; “a little tinkering -here, a little fancy legislation there, and they will last our time; -meanwhile, let us hear ourselves talk.” - -The only wonder now seemed that the world had been so slow to perceive -this, that it had taken the human race so many thousand years to -discover a truth which now seemed as simple and patent as the converse -one, that it would not be wise to entrust grave affairs to children in -their first decade. - -And so the younger men of England, by a sudden and united effort at the -general election of 19—, secured the return of a House of Commons -containing no man over the age of thirty-five, and no woman: (for women -had begun to come in and to make matters worse). - -This House of Commons, strong, in earnest for real work, and not divided -by Party, that frivolous pastime of politicians who were too old for -other games, passed without difficulty a wise “superannuation law.” And -the government of the country, thus at last able to govern indeed, made -the almost foundering ship of our unhappy State once more answer to the -helm, and steered for that haven of peaceful order and settled rule -which men remembered sadly as a lost Paradise or longed for as an -undiscoverable “Atlantis.” - -That _laws are made to be obeyed_ had glided in those days from the -place of a truism into that of a fallacy. It was the first principle of -the new Cabinet. - -To two classes this principle had to be made clear—Criminals, or -law-breakers; Anarchists, or law-deniers. - -Of the first of these we will speak first. It will now hardly be -believed that there existed at that time in England what were called -“the Criminal Classes”—thousands of men, women, and children known to be -living in the continual commission of crime, as other people are engaged -in commerce, husbandry, and the like, spending much of their time in -prison, and never doing or desiring any honest work. - -This state of things the young government set themselves to bring to an -end. - -Instead of progressing towards that universal slipshod leniency which -the philanthropists of an earlier time had set before themselves as a -goal—with capital punishment evaded for awhile and eventually -abolished,—these rulers, with all the ruthless severity of youth, -extended the area of crimes punishable by death. To those whose lives -were hurtful to the innocent community, mercy could only be shown, so -they held, at the expense of those to whom mercy, that is, protection, -was really due. Not only all who compassed, or even attempted the lives -of others, but all who after repeated smaller punishments still lived -the lives of evildoers, were counted unworthy longer to live,—and this -without any attempted distinction of sane or insane,—the existence of -the latter being considered even more hopelessly injurious to the State -than that of the former, and, on the other hand, less valuable to -themselves. - -But while the punishment of death was certain and frequent, it was no -longer inflicted in the barbarous manner which continued, a ghastly -anachronism, through the reign of the tender-hearted Victoria. - -Those whose lives were forfeit were placed for a time—the length of -which depended on various circumstances—in a place of solemn -sequestration, to the care of which a society of holy men and women -devoted their existence, and which was placed rather under the authority -of the Church than of the State. The State, indeed, had done with them; -they were already cut off from their place as citizens; it only remained -for the Church to lead them with kind hand through paths of penitence -and prayer to the door of a new life, a new hope—where this was -possible. With some, with many perhaps, the soul seemed already dead -before the body. - -When the time came, surrounded by a serious company of the “Brethren of -Death,” whose prayers and solemn hymns made the last moments beautiful -to those who were repentant, and awful to those who were hardened, the -condemned drank an opiate, which closed their eyes in a painless sleep -from which there was no waking, while those about them still prayed for -the departing spirit on its way to a higher judgment. - -Beautiful histories were told of some who in the quiet of their cells, -aided by the gentle ministrations of the Brothers and Sisters, came to -see with an anguish of repentance the sinfulness of their past, and to -rejoice in the thought of passing, sprinkled with fresh dews of -penitence and forgiveness, away from a world whose temptations had been -too strong for them. Of their forfeit lives they made a willing -sacrifice, and they were glad to be allowed to lay them down. - -Children who had committed crimes, after fitting punishment were placed -in settlements where they were kept under strict discipline and -carefully instructed, the rudiments of some useful art being added to a -simple education in general subjects. Girls were trained in household -work, and all, as soon as they were grown men and women, were removed -from these settlements to places where their past was unknown, unless -they showed themselves so dyed with their early habits and so resolved -to return to them that this would have been harmful to the State. - -In these cases, which were very few, they were treated in the same way -as the hardened offenders of whom I have just spoken. - -There were not wanting intelligent persons to whom the punishment of -death for a misused life seemed a terrible and even a wicked thing. Yet, -not only had such punishment been in use for just such offences in the -time of Queen Elizabeth and of other sovereigns, but at so late a time -as the commencement of the present century, war among civilized nations -was considered justifiable, and the profession of a soldier was even -held to be a noble and Christian calling. The very women whose tender -hearts cried out against the new law would send their young sons away -with their blessing to face death in compassing that of other innocent -and unwilling victims in a cause for which, often, none of them cared. -Those who thus perished in war, believing that it was for their -country’s honour that they fought, were among the best and bravest of -the nation—men to whom discipline and order were their very breath. -Those whom the new law excluded from life were scarcely worthy of the -name of men, and more hostile to their country than any of the soldiers -of other states. - -This then was the course adopted with reference to the Law-Breakers. We -must now speak of the Law-Deniers. Anarchy, Socialism, free-land -leagues, communistic democracy more or less indigenous, and every shade -of Nihilism and Dynamitism introduced from the East and the West, had so -long had free course that a large mass of the population had come to -believe practically that might was right, and the problems of the -earliest stages of barbarism were staring men in the face as the -products of an over-ripe civilization. - -It was true, and the young rulers recognized this, that much of the -discontent of the poorer classes had had just ground in the indifference -and selfish luxury of the rich, but that cause was already in great part -removed, and in two ways. - -Women as highly educated as men, and now wise enough to see that they -were made for better things than the dust of politics, turned their -thoughts to home reforms. Their higher standard of principle and -refinement of taste led to a contempt for what was gorgeous or costly in -dress or equipage, food or furniture, as essentially vulgar, or at best -barbaric. Thus their quiet ways and simple attire left little space to -be bridged over as regards outward show between them and the thrifty -women of a humbler class, and that space was bridged by kindly -intercourse, by knowledge shared, and by the ready sympathy which is the -gift of the highest intelligence. - -This was one great power for good. The other was the fact that so many -owners of land had devoted large portions of it to sites for Industrial -Villages, and even those who had no sympathy for the poor or enthusiasm -for the good of their country, partly for fashion’s sake, and partly -because these schemes proved not only useful to the poor but beneficial -to the landowner, joined to aid the great work of withdrawing the -population from the towns into the country. - -The gradual disuse of steam, with all its dismal accompaniments of -blackened skies and unlovely chimneys, allowed of almost all -manufactures being carried on under healthy and cheerful conditions. On -every hill, rows of windmills gathered the force which produced -electricity and stored it for the use of the village below; while by -every stream, and on every shore visited by tides, the forces of water -were in the same way brought into a service which, being no longer -intermittent, was of permanent and continuous value. - -Thus the real misery of the honest poor in England was becoming a thing -of the past, and the large class of people whose stock-in-trade was the -discontent of others became at once more reckless and more dangerous -when, flinging away all disguise and separated from those whose wrongs -had lent colour to their schemes, they appeared under their true flag as -the enemies of all law and duty, industry and religion. - -The young Cabinet saw at once the way to meet them. Those who would not -obey the laws of one country must seek a home in another. Banishment -seemed at once the mildest and the most reasonable punishment (if indeed -it can be so called),—not transportation to some special spot, but -simply exile from England and from all British dominions and -colonies—the Great Federation being absolutely united in this important -matter—under penalty of death if the banished returned. - -On conviction the Anarchist was marked, by an indelible brand in a -painless manner, with a red O in sign of outlawry, and received his -sentence of banishment—and in this way some thousands of the disaffected -and idle were at once removed from our shores. - -Some of them were of the lowest and most violent class, who are -naturally rude and lawless because bound by no inner law themselves -(though, as has been shown, those leading an actually criminal life were -dealt with in other ways); and associated with them, indignant at the -new law, and therefore enthusiastically determined to share the fate of -the exiled, were men and women of a far higher type, mistaken, yet nobly -in the wrong. Some few were poets, historians, religious visionaries, -women whose dreams of a millennium were based on a false notion of the -origin and essence of law. All these last gave themselves up at once, -and stretched out the right hand that had held the pen, or blessed the -chalice, or soothed the dying forehead, for the circle in which they -gloried as a sign of their fellowship with the oppressed. - -At first the result was, of course, that in other countries the -Anarchists found hearers for their doctrines and ready adherents to -their destructive schemes, the false notion that lawlessness is liberty -being one readily welcomed by the unthinking. But one by one the -countries to which they had fled followed the precedent of England, and -banished from their shores also the men and women of the red right hand. -In those days the States of Europe were already bound in a sort of -confederation, with an International Court in which matters of common -interest were discussed, and it was agreed that a place must be found -for the growing nation of outlaws, who else might justly plead for a -home in a law-obeying state as a mere necessity of humanity. - -In the terrible era of volcanic action which began about the year 1885 -and lasted nearly half a century, many coasts and islands had been -submerged, with great loss of human life and of the results of human -industry. Among others the beautiful Island of Meliora in the South -Pacific had been the scene of the sudden formation of a volcano and of a -fearful eruption. It seemed as if the whole heart of the Island were -poured for many days and nights into the sultry sky, and then sank into -the sea and was seen no more. - -After a period of several years, the captain of a merchant vessel, -looking with his corrected chart for the circle of coral reef which -marked the place of the lost Island, saw with wonder Meliora re-arisen -from the sea, crowned by the wide crater of its fatal mountain and -already clothed with brilliant vegetation. It would seem strange that -its re-appearance had not been noticed by other vessels, as the trees -upon it showed that it must have been some years above water, but this -will not appear remarkable when it is known that no ordinary course for -vessels carried them within sight of the Island, and that the new reefs -which had been raised around it by the action of the volcano were so -dangerous that captains who entered those seas avoided their -neighbourhood. The line of coral reef which encircled the Island had not -sunk more than a few feet, hence the thick growth of Coco-palms that -covered it had not been submerged, and no doubt directly Meliora arose -from the waves seeds from these would at once begin to take root and -make rapid growth in that wonderful soil and climate. - -When the captain of the “Ville d’Is,” driven out of his way by adverse -winds, saw the wonder of the restored land, it was at the moment of -perplexity of which I have spoken as to where the outlawed nation should -find a home. - -It was at once resolved by the united governments of Europe that they -should be offered transport to this Island—an offer which the most part -gladly accepted, chased as they had been from country to country, and -very weary of their wandering. - -Indeed, what other chance remained for them, since to enter any -civilized country, any country governed by settled rule of law, was to -die? - -From all points of the compass ships with various flags entered the -circle of reefs that surrounded Meliora, and set down their strange -passengers on that beautiful shore. - -A land large enough for all, fertile as a garden of romance, perfect in -climate, and abounding in all they could need for food, clothing and -shelter, what more could the outlaws desire? - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration] - - CHAPTER II. - - “Exile is when a man is for a crime condemned to depart out of the - dominion of the commonwealth, or out of a certain part thereof, and - during a prefixed time, or for ever, not to return to it; and seemeth - not in its own nature, without other circumstances, to be a - punishment; but rather an escape, or a public commandment to avoid - punishment by flight.”—HOBBES’ _Leviathan_. - - -The first to land in Meliora were a company of English Socialists, with -whom a few of the best who so called themselves were careful to cast in -their lot. These were men of forethought and resource, and the truth -that the circumstances of men are made by their inner natures was never -more clearly seen than in the difference which soon appeared in the -homes of the new settlers. The leader of this elect company was an old -Scholar who in his younger days had distinguished himself in many ways, -but, from a genuine belief that the medicine of a sick world lay in a -socialist creed, had laid aside all that had gained him fame and credit -for this one dream, and sealed his choice with the brand. - -To him in his old age, after years of desolate wanderings, the thought -of a home in a new Atlantis was welcome indeed,—the soft sweet air of -the southern seas, the beautiful vegetation and strange fantastic story -of the Island awakened the old poetic feelings of his youth, and it -seemed as if his mission to the world would here meet fulfilment and -find its lost harmony with the earlier longings of his genius and fancy. - -Through his help and counsel the first settlement of the land was -organized, houses suitable to the climate were built, Indian corn and -other crops for which they had brought a common stock of seed were sown -for the coming season, and to each was allotted an equal share of the -fruitful land on which there was only so much need to labour as Adam -found in Milton’s Paradise. - -Some of course were more industrious, some more ingenious, than others. -Some had less bodily vigour; among these were those of whom I have -spoken as the elect few—the old Scholar and a little company of young -clerics, “Priests” of the Church of England. - -This Church from the time of its disestablishment had begun a new -life—it had at once shown its vitality by casting off some of its old -disused organisms and by adapting itself in quick sympathy to the needs -of a changed order of things. - -The young Priests of whom I have spoken believed that men had lost sight -of the great communistic idea of early Christianity, and they made -themselves poor and homeless for the sake of their creed. True brethren -of the Cross they were, not the less willing to cast in their lot with -the outlawed because most of these denied the Christian faith with their -lips. Some of them they knew acknowledged it in their lives, while in -the multitude who cast away all law and chose evil rather than good, -they recognized the lost sheep whom it was their mission if possible to -recall. - -These men, who were less strong in body than many others, were yet much -more skilful in the use they made of the advantages which all shared -alike, and even the women, of whom a small company of enthusiasts had -arrived, were so wise and industrious in the building of their simple -homes and the tilling of their small plots, that the western point of -the Island, in which these elect ones took up their abode, became soon a -thriving and pleasant settlement, while the homes of the less -intelligent, even of those who were of great bodily strength, were of -poorer construction, their lands worse tilled, and an altogether -different manner of living and occupation prevailed among them. - -And this notwithstanding that the little brotherhood of Priests made no -home for themselves beyond a rude shelter from the air before they had -built with the best skill they possessed, and with all the help they -could persuade others to give them, a church where daily worship of the -simplest kind was offered. - -Things went for a time very happily; all that the elect company -possessed of skill or knowledge they were eager to share with others. -The old Scholar of whom I have spoken gave advice in regard to the -building of each new dwelling; those whose crops were the largest shared -with those who had least, and through the whole little colony in the -western part of the Island a common exile produced a common feeling of -loyalty to one another, and of desire for the good of the community, to -which for a time even those who professed to believe in no moral order -yielded. I cannot say that the white wooden church among the Bread-fruit -trees held many worshippers, but at least the Christian Brotherhood was -looked upon as a harmless and kindly element in the new society. - -Some Russian noblemen and students were among the next arrivals. They -were full of enthusiasm for the future of the settlement, though enraged -at their banishment, and a little jealous of the established order they -found on the island and of the influence of the Scholar and the Priests. -The former, by the love and esteem in which he was held by many, and -even by the beauty of his venerable countenance, seemed to them -dangerously like a patriarch or chief, and the superiority of the -western dwellings was to them a sign of something reactionary. They -built their own homes rather carelessly, and gathered little companies -together by the side of the Lagoon to whom they talked in low and -earnest tones and in excellent English of the beauty of Anarchy and of -Nihilism, glorifying the _absence_ of certain things as a _presence_ -more than any religion or philosophy had done before. The “Nothing” of -Molinos, the emptiness of Nirvana, would have been far too existent for -them. - -Their ideas did not always meet with acceptance, for even the more -violent of the Socialists could hardly see that there was an object for -destructive denunciations in the simple order which seemed to them an -assurance of individual freedom. - -But a change was coming. - -I am not going here to write the history of the great Irish revolution -which followed the separation of that country from England. It is well -known how terrible that time was, and how, when all men were wearied out -and sick to death of the horrors of civil war, there followed a great -swing of the pendulum towards order and high-handed government; they -entreated for a king of the Royal Family of England, and a strongly -Conservative Cabinet in Dublin banished in large numbers all who -remained of the disaffected party. - -These were the men who next landed in Meliora. They had been maddened -with rage against their own Church in consequence of the wise part taken -by the Pope and the Irish bishops against the revolutionary party. Hence -they were enemies of all creeds and forms of religion, and they were -also of course filled with the old bitterness against all of English -race. - -At the same time a great number of German and Belgian Socialists of the -most violent kind were also landed on the Island, and they found no -difficulty in making friends at once with the Irish company, the German -system of education having made them as perfect in the use of foreign -tongues as it left them ignorant of the first principles of moral law -and of all sound theories of government and political economy. - -These new-comers settled themselves in the southeast of the Island, -where there were large forests of Coco-palms, Bananas, and Bread-fruit -trees, which they began at once to fell in order to use the timber for -their houses, and this in so wasteful a way that they cut down those -trees which were valuable for fruit, but of slight use as timber, quite -as freely as the others. Indeed, for such houses as they wanted much -smaller wood was sufficient. The abundant Hybiscus would have supplied -all their material in that climate, where solid and substantial -dwellings are entirely needless. - -Not content with a reckless destruction in their own district, they did -not scruple to begin cutting wood from the coco-bearing reef which -fringed the Lagoon far to the westward of their settlement. - -A gentle remonstrance from those whom I will name the Western party -called forth feelings of anger and unreason in these men of violent -ideas, and there arose among them, it is scarcely known how, an idea of -building ships in which they might go out and subdue some neighbouring -islands. At the same time they had a scheme for constructing defences on -their own shore against the attacks they might in this manner provoke. -And, later, they showed signs of erecting a sort of stockade which, with -the abrupt line of the great mountain and its outlying ridges of broken -crater, would separate them from the Western settlement. At first, as -has been said, the scheme which led to their cutting down the forest was -chiefly one for shipbuilding. To this the Western party strongly opposed -themselves. - -What indeed was the use of such a project? All the islands of the South -Pacific, in which signs of their great future were already -foreshadowing, were members of the British Federation. To land on any -one of them could only mean a defiance of the whole power of that -Federation, some fresh laws of repression, and possibly the presence of -troops in the island. - -And this, a mean and futile struggle with the laws of a strong country -instead of the peaceful future for which the Island might have looked—a -future not of conflict, but of freedom and peace, so the Western -enthusiasts believed—a future in which every man should be a law to -himself, in which each should willingly work for all—a future from which -the old world, with its worn-out notions, should learn this lesson—that -to be without laws was not to be lawless, and that freedom from forms of -external government did not mean slavery to selfishness and passion. - -Such counsels of perfection were hardly fitted for the wilder notions of -the Southern and Eastern settlers. The remonstrances of the West were -met with many an angry cry. From the Irish that they had not come round -the world to submit again to English rule; from the Russians that they -would not be governed by priests; from the Germans every possible -argument with no possible ground. - -After a time a sort of parliament was convened in an amphitheatre formed -by one of the craters of the great mountain. No one could think of this -strange place of assembly as having been so lately given over to the two -fiercer elements of those primal four in which the old world believed, -the rush of angry Fire, or the wash of stormy Waves under which it had -lain a little while, but long enough for the busy coral creatures to -have claimed it for a foundation. Now it seemed as if Earth from the -beginning had held it in her green arms, and as if the gentle Air had -immemorially carried to and fro the sleepy odours of its wonderful -flowers. - -Here they met, the Western party standing loyally round their leaders -and chief speakers—the old Scholar of whom I have spoken, the young -Priests, and a large company of English working men, who believed -heartily in the communistic idea. I will not say that as they discussed -the affairs of their Island nationality and opinion always kept -together. There were some Englishmen of a low type who applauded the -violent and warlike party; there was a company of the wiser and more -educated Russians who were convinced by the words of the West; there -were moderate men among the Germans and Belgians; but the Irish were -mostly for the axe and the sword. It was clearly shown at this time that -the Moderates were in the minority; there was no force to which they -could appeal, and, as the sun set behind the ridge on which they stood, -they turned and went rather sadly homeward. - -Still there seemed one effort to be made. The Western party was now, -through the opposition of the South, bound by a real unity of thought. -They could, at any rate, set themselves to persuade by individual -converse some of the other side; indeed, as I have said, some of the -better class of Russian Nihilists had already been convinced—these might -influence their own people. - -So for a while, though without much hope, milder counsels were urged -here and there by messengers from the West, who went singly across the -hills to speak to all who would listen. The young Priests even -endeavoured to recall some of the settlers of the South to thoughts of -duty and heavenly wisdom, and preached the gladness of a life in which -each lived for his fellows, in contrast with the misery of that state in -which each strove for his own gain, wrangling like brute beasts. But -though some few, touched by words that recalled an innocent past, -inclined at least to consider their meaning, there were but few who were -ready to receive them, and to most the Cross seemed but a worn-out -emblem of the creed of oppressors. - -Finally, the sole result of all these efforts was to rouse the -opposition of the Southern leaders, who went to and fro denouncing those -of the West, inflaming the passions of their own followers by violent -appeals and angry denunciations, till that day came which all had -foreseen—how could it indeed not come? Yet it seemed, so said those who -remained to tell the story, as if so horrible a thing could not really -happen in that sweet, languid air, under that warm sun, tempered by soft -winds and sweet with a thousand flowers. Conflict and tumult and -cruelty—what had they to do with such a scene? - -It was a Sunday morning. All the Western folk were gathered in and round -the church, whose open arcaded sides allowed those without to join -freely the worship of those within. The church indeed was too large for -those who mostly cared to enter it, but to-day the sense of coming -trouble brought the whole community together. - -Suddenly upon the sound of prayer broke in the noisy shouts and hideous -laughter of their enemies; a wild multitude came rushing through the -trees, and then forming a ring round the church and the kneeling crowd, -they called for those they most hated in all that company—the Scholar -and the Priests. - -The old Scholar, if the truth be told, was one who had no love for -creeds; he cared little for churches, though these Churchmen he had come -to honour as men—good men, wise, gentle and true of heart. He took -pleasure in believing that he was no Christian, not knowing himself. For -in truth he loved the Christ in His poor, and in these men His servants, -and he had long lived, though, as has been said, not thinking it, the -life of the Cross. Self had long been put away, so far as it can be by -any still dwelling in the flesh, only he had not ever looked up into the -face of Him who led him by the hand. He was therefore not within the -church, but a little away, under a Bread-fruit tree. - -But when he heard them call his name, he came and stood upon the steps -at the door and spoke to the leaders of the crowd. He said that they -might do as they would with him, but he would entreat them once again to -consider what was good for the peace and safety of the whole Island. He -begged them to spare the Priests who had come there to serve them, to -teach their children, and to help all with wise counsels and the example -of virtuous lives. While he spoke, these men, having reverently finished -their prayers, came and stood beside him. Then the crowd broke out in -wild cries and thrust them back into the church, while some of their -number, with a sudden inspiration from the Evil Will, set fire to the -slight wooden roof of the porch. - -It was but for a little while that the flames ran round the dry, thin -walls and mounted the wooden spire, and rose, a column of clear, pale -scarlet against the brilliant green of the tall Bread-fruit trees. Those -within the church saw that there was no escape, and the youngest of the -Priests, a boyish fellow who in England had thought much about stoles -and albs, quietly gave out the hymn they had meant to sing at the end of -the service. All joined with one voice, and only as the flames wrapped -round and choked them the sound of their singing died away—no groan, no -cry for help, no struggle to escape, but just one solemn, triumphant -martyr song, and all was still. The old Scholar died on the steps of the -altar, as they knew by his signet ring, an antique of great beauty, on -which was engraved the figure of a man bound by his outstretched hands -and feet, supposed to represent Prometheus chained upon the rock. - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration] - - CHAPTER III. - - “This is the righteous maid, the comforter.” - - -Thus ended the hopes of the West. The time that followed was one of wild -confusion. Violence was the only law, and those who escaped in that -terrible day yielded themselves in hopeless misery to the disorders they -could not avert or control. Some few there always were who longed for -order and peace, and mourned in silence for their lost leaders; but none -had the courage to speak out. - -It was in these days that a ship of strange appearance was seen -approaching the entrance of the Lagoon, which, passing quickly round to -the north of the Island, a bare, rocky region not yet inhabited, landed -there a large number of passengers, and before the rest of the -inhabitants could cross the mountain and discover who were the -new-comers, the ship which brought them had vanished again into the open -sea. - -A stealthy departure and scarcely to be wondered at, for the government -of Burmah had grave fears whether even on the Island of Outlaws its -passengers could be welcomed or endured. They were a large company of an -entirely lawless robber race known at that time by the name of -Dacoits—the terror of the Burmese country. - -These men soon found that they had been put ashore on the least fertile -part of the Island, and they began to come over the heights and plunder -the older settlers for whatever they needed, even driving them from -their homes and taking possession of these. - -There was no government or settled order to which anyone could -appeal—“each man for himself” was the only rule. The number of the early -settlers was much diminished by the years of strife and violence, and -though some of those who came as children to the Island were now growing -to man’s and woman’s estate, these were not many, and the fact that -among the older settlers there were some who had families was a great -source of weakness to them as against the new-comers, for even the most -lawless of the old Southern men dreaded the attacks of these wild -marauders upon their feeble women and children. - -Thus the presence of the Dacoits wrought a change at once on the island. - -The common trouble to which they were now exposed inclined the earlier -settlers to look upon one another with more friendly eyes, and indeed I -think by this time they were all beginning a little to weary of -conflict, and so they drew together and determined on measures in which -they should all unite for driving the Dacoits back to the North, or at -any rate reducing them to some sort of subjection. - -But this was by no means easy. Men who had no scruple at midnight -murder, and delighted in the torture of little children in the sight of -their mothers, could not be met by any force but that of perfectly -organized and strong repression, and the leaders of the party who now -represented the order of the Island began to dread whether they would -not indeed all perish at the hands of these savage invaders. It might be -so, but all that was best in these men rose up to meet the danger and to -defend their homes. They were beginning to understand the meaning of -union, of some sort of law, of the sacrifice of the will of each one to -the good of the whole, when a new thing happened. - -Some Dacoits who had just been driven back from a plundering expedition -were men who had learnt a few words of English, and as they sullenly -retired they uttered terrible threats against their opponents, which -they said they would perform when the next moon was round, for then -ships would come bringing their friends, and they made signs to show -that these would come in great numbers. - -Here were indeed tidings of despair for the settlers. They met once -again in the green amphitheatre in which they had been convened before, -and many of them remembered sadly how things had changed for the worse -since that day. The presence of this terror made them all of one accord, -though there seemed nothing to be done. The shipbuilding projects had -been long abandoned among the pre-occupations of their internal -conflicts, and the little boats in which they crossed the Lagoon were -perfectly useless for long voyages at this time of year; but indeed, -since all could not leave the Island, none of them would dream of -deserting their companions in misery. - -Further, if other reason were needed for their remaining, all but the -children and quite young men and, women bore the brand which made life -impossible for them elsewhere. - -And now a voice was heard among the anxious company to which all -listened, for most of them knew it well. It was a woman’s voice, the -voice of one who came among the first settlers of the West, drawn there -not by political sympathy or communistic fellow-feeling with them, but -simply by the thought that here, if anywhere, would be sick souls to -heal, sick bodies to tend, and women and little children needing help -and care. She was called “Our Sister,” and no one had learnt anything of -her family or her history. Of those whom she comforted in sickness or -trouble, each one felt assured that she held the creed his mother had -taught him as a little child; some would have sworn she belonged to the -Church of Rome; the Russians claimed her as theirs; some wild Welsh -Home-Rulers were certain that she belonged to the Primitive Methodist -Connexion; and a company of rough men from the English iron districts -were still more certain that her gentle voice was that of a Quakeress -from a secluded Yorkshire valley. - -It did hot matter. - -She had escaped, almost alone of the inmost circle of the West, at the -time of the burning of the church, by the fact that she was that day -nursing a little child who was sick of a fever and whose mother had just -died. Since that time evil habits and careless living had led to a great -spread of this terrible disease, and the Sister had gone from one sick -bed to another bringing medicine and the healing of her presence, and -there were those who said that something miraculous lay in the touch of -her hands and the whisper of her prayer. - -It was her voice that spoke in the midst of the people that day. She -stood on a little mound among the tangled growth of scented -flowers—almost amidst of the great amphitheatre—and in the perfect hush -of her hearers and the stillness of the clear windless air every -syllable was heard. - -She said that these troubles had come upon them, as they knew, through -their own folly and dissensions; that they might now, if they were -indeed united, resist their enemies and oblige them to live peaceably in -their own part of the Island, getting their supplies from the northern -reef, which was very fruitful, and not crossing the hills; that if, -taking warning from the weakness which their disorders had brought, they -would set themselves to strengthen some simple form of government, they -might even yet live peaceable and happy lives on the Island. If the new -company of Dacoits found them thus united and strong they might submit -to the same rule as the others; but alas! the moon was near the full. -There was but little time for such measures, even if all did their best. - -But there was one weapon they had all long neglected, the weapon of -Prayer, and she entreated them all to kneel down around her. - -The wild multitude thus taken unawares in a serious mood did not bethink -them of scoffing, indeed they loved her, and that was enough. - -Her sweet, piercing voice seemed to touch the cloudless sky as she -confessed the sins of that company and acknowledged their need of all -things; and with words that claimed as the gift certain to be given by a -loving father’s hand, what others would timidly have asked as a doubtful -favour from a distant king, she seemed to lay hold at once with a strong -hand on all the infinite help hidden in the storehouse of the Heavenly -Will. - -She claimed for that company, not safety only, but blessings and -gladness undreamed of by any; and when she ended, a great “Amen” went up -from all that strange congregation. - -At this moment a wild cry was heard from those who stood on the eastern -ridge of the crater, which commanded the sea and the opening in the reef -by which vessels entered the Lagoon. A ship whose lines were but too -well known was in sight: the Dacoits were coming. - -The whole assembly climbed up the sides of the crater and on to the long -ridge of hill beyond, and stood looking seaward. The ship came quickly -nearer—when those who knew the coast observed that, instead of following -the winding channel of deep water that leads to the opening of the -Lagoon, they were hurrying on to a great sunken reef to the north of -this, on which the sea, being unusually calm, was not breaking as it was -wont to do at most seasons. - -They saw a crowd of Dacoits rush to the shore making signs to those on -board, but it was too late. The ship struck, and sank at once in the -fathomless depth of water outside the reef. The Dacoits on shore swam -across the Lagoon, and running over the reef again, swam towards the -sunken ship, and dived in the hope of saving their friends. But during -this little space of time, the tide, which turns there very suddenly, -brought great waves again to break over the sunken rocks and on the -outer edge of the reef, and many of those who swam out to the wreck were -drowned. - -Why the ship took the wrong course no one could ever know; perhaps, -having made the voyage before, the captain ventured without a pilot. - -To all who stood on the mountain ridge and saw what happened in that -short space of time, it seemed only that their prayer had been answered. - - - - -[Illustration] - - CHAPTER IV. - - “Love, and do what thou wilt.” - - -The next day another great meeting was convened. - -Their deliverance and the manner of it had wrought a great change in -many, especially in the less educated of the community, who experienced -at that time a _conversion_—that reversal of the natural selfish state -which makes self come last instead of first in the thoughts of a man, -and which leads him also to realize a Presence in the Unseen. I mention -this because it very much changed the nature of their deliberations. I -do not say that these conversions would have had a lasting effect but -for certain events which followed. - -All desired a settled order in the Island. Those who were not truly in -principle Anarchists, but rather Democrats, proposed some form of social -contract by which they might “confer all their power and strength upon -one man, or upon one assembly of men, that might reduce all their wills, -by plurality of voices, unto one will; which is as much as to say, to -appoint one man, or assembly of men, to bear their Person: and every one -to owne, and acknowledge himself to be Author of whatsoever he that so -beareth their person shall Act, or cause to be acted in those things -which concerne the common Peace and Safetie; and therein to submit their -Wills, every one to his Will, and their Judgments to his Judgment. This -is more than consent or concord; it is a real Unitie of them all, in one -and the same Person, made by covenant of every man with every man, in -such manner, as if every man should say to every man, ‘I authorize and -give up my right of governing myself to this Man or to this assembly of -men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him and authorize -all his actions in like manner.’” - -These words are originally those of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, and -these, or something like these, were spoken on this occasion by a young -Englishman of gentle birth and manners, but of very ungentle notions -when first he came to the Island. He was not one of those who came of -their own free will, but as a branded man, having continued, after many -warnings, to gather large companies of men in the London squares, and to -exhort them to Revolution. - -He was now, notwithstanding, as we have seen, rather old-fashioned in -his ideas, and his proposal was met by not a little opposition. Who, it -was asked, should be the governing body? How chosen? Who should make, -and who enforce, the laws? All the old well-worn, yet not worn-out -difficulty about elections, and minorities, and oligarchies, seemed to -appear in forecast on the Island, which at least had never known these -evils; and the young man, as the argument proceeded, felt himself to -have been in the wrong. - -But the voice which on this day made itself heard with the most -clearness and decision was that of a Russian Prince, who was persuaded -as firmly as he had ever been that in Anarchy—absence of all -government—lay the only true order of society. He had always -acknowledged that to this end certain principles of morality recognized -by the whole community, were necessary. He had believed, on first coming -to the Island, that the mere absence of outward law would develop in men -that natural morality from which, under the blight of government, they -had fallen away; and he had opposed the work of the Priests of the West -on the ground that the artificial restraints of religion are as fatal as -civil enactments to the free growth of this natural virtue. But he had -seen what sort of fruit was borne by common human nature when first left -in a wild garden. His soul had been awakened to find that the morality -of which he had dreamed, kindled and made living could be no other than -the life of the Cross. - -In truth, like the old Scholar of the Western settlement, his heart had -long been dwelling in the place of lowly service and of death to self, -without knowing the meaning of such a life, or putting it into the words -of the Christian faith; for the Christian faith that he had been taught -had been shut up in sacred books and disguised in sacred images, and so -hidden from his eyes. - -But on the evening before this convention, after the great deliverance, -he had gone up the western slope of the mountain and had found the -Sister sitting in silent meditation at the door of her house, wearied -with all the anxieties and events of the day, and with the reaction that -comes to all high natures after times of tension and excitement. The -thought of the drowned Dacoits, of the unsettled state of the Island, of -the wickedness that abounded, and of her own helplessness for good, -weighed on her sensitive spirit. She was in Elijah’s mood when he said, -“Oh, that I now might die!” - -To those who feel weary and wanting all things, the call is often to -work and to give; and so it was that evening with the Sister. They spoke -together by the door of her house till the full moon dropped from the -height of the northern sky towards the western sea; and as they talked -the things unseen seemed the only realities. The high hope and faith in -which the Sister had long lived and moved were communicated in that hour -to the seeking soul of the Prince; his whole being rose up to greet the -new vision of the Best; and when he took his leave of the teacher to -whom he owed so much, it was not to return at once to his home by the -southern shore. He climbed by a steep path to the mountain top, and -there, till the moon set and dawn came over the sea, he communed with -his own heart and swore a solemn allegiance to the Master whom he had -chosen. - -To-day, full of hope and confidence, he rose among the people, and laid -before them his scheme of a Christian Anarchy—a society of men set free -from all outward law, set free from the bondage of self and of evil -desires, because the willing servants of a holy Lord. - -As we have seen, he was not the first to speak in the assembly; his old -restless desire to make his voice heard was gone; he was clothed with a -new humility. The cause for which he pleaded was not his, but that of -One who hastes not:— - - “Day by day, - And year by year He tarrieth: little need - The Lord should hasten.” - -It has been shown that the people were ready in heart for such an -appeal. There was not one voice raised against him; each seemed fired by -a high enthusiasm for the good of all; each eager only that the highest -will should be done. - -This will not seem strange to those who realize the excitement of the -times just past, and who remember how frequent in the history of -religion has been the sudden awakening, under strong feeling, of large -multitudes of men. I will not say that this was altogether unlike such -other awakenings; I only say that it was more lasting in its -consequences than many such have been. - -With a people in this temper the structure of the new Polity seemed -rather the building up of a Church than the ordering of a Commonwealth. - -Yet it truly resembled neither of these things. They determined that no -written laws, no written book of religion, no formal creed should have a -place among them. They had seen how law-making means law-breaking, and -they determined that their rule of life should be simply this one -thing—a principle, a passion, not a command; just this—Love to a living -Lord, in whom they recognized the perfection of all that the mind of man -can conceive as holiest and best, whom they knew to be among them -always. In all troubles and difficulties they stretched out hands of -prayer and proved His presence. - -These being their thoughts, it was rather a furtherance of their work -than a hindrance of it that all the books of the Priests had been -consumed in the burning of the church. They did not attempt, as they -might well have done, to reconstruct a book of Faith from the words and -thoughts with which the memories of the Sister and some others were -stored. - -These were held all the more precious because they had to be told by one -to another, and told again and again, till in the hearts of all were -embedded as shining jewels fragments of perfect truth and flashes of -mystical insight. Dearest to all were the parable of the Vine and Its -branches, the Story of the Cross, the “Sermon on the Mount,” and many -sayings such as these: “The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life;” -“He that loveth his life shall lose it;” many words of St. Paul, and -especially those which tell of the struggle of the soul to get free from -the only real tyranny, and the splendid anarchy of the slaves of Christ; -many sayings of Thomas à Kempis, of Tauler, of Molinos, and of Marcus -Aurelius, dear to the heart of the Sister; many fragments of poems and -hymns such as she loved and had learnt; many beautiful old hymns which -some of the wives of the German Socialists remembered and sang. But it -would not be possible even to hint at the chosen words which ruled the -lives of that happy community, every voice in which swelled the sweet -hymn of praise which rose at morn and even among the Bread-fruit groves. -They did not assemble to worship or to sing, for they sang and -worshipped everywhere. - -No one called anything his own; and each was eager to find opportunities -of helping others with his strength or his substance. - -But as to the Dacoits, concerning them even the Prince was led to doubt -the fitness of Anarchy. They were not, indeed, now so strong, or the -rest of the community so weak, that they could not be forced to submit -to laws; but they did not seem able to understand the very rudiments of -that inner law which he saw was needful to the peace of a country -ordered on the principles of which we have spoken. - -So they were taken in calm weather in the Lagoon boats to a small -neighbouring island, where they would find plenty of food, but no large -timber of which boats might be built; and they were left there to work -out for themselves the problem just solved on Meliora. - -How long the Anarchy, which was truly a Theocracy, would have continued -in unbroken peace cannot be known. It is possible that, though the -children of the first settlers were passionately eager for settled -order, and enthusiastically religious, their children might show a -return of evil tendencies, and that those who did not remember the first -fearful days of strife in the Island might wilfully have roused again a -spirit of disorder; for the world and all the spheres mount only in -upward spirals toward that point of the Heavens where they shall rest at -last, and are turning always to the same point again, only a little -higher than before. - -What did happen was this. - -Not long after the time of which I have written, the Sister having died, -and been buried at her desire high up on the mountain, the Prince went -one evening to sit by her grave awhile and to gather strength by -communing with the spirit that had first led him into the way of -gladness. - -It had been a sultry day, and the breeze that was wont to cool the -Island when the sun went down was this day asleep; no breath lifted the -heavy air. - -The heart of the Prince was mournful too; only the hidden help which -never fails upheld him in the vague depression which stole over him. - -Then he heard suddenly a strange rumbling sound in the mountain under -him; the earth shook, and as he sprang to his feet he saw a horrible -sight—the sea drawn back from the reef, sucked from the great Lagoon, -and then rushing in upon the Island and surging up over the reef, over -the fringe of Palms, over all the peaceful homes below. Twice this was -repeated as he staggered down from the highest point of the mountain; -and when the violence of the shock was over, the crater lay at his feet -a salt lagoon, and over all the fruitful plain the sea lay deep and -still. - -He alone was left of all that land’s inhabitants. - -To a nature like his there was nothing terrible in solitude, nor did the -whole of this awful event seem to him so sad as it would have been to -hear one evil word from the lips of a child. - -He lived for some years after this a life of meditation and peace, -finding just enough food to supply his need among the fruits of the -higher mountain forests; and one day, in his extreme old age, a ship’s -boat seeking water entered the Lagoon. He was taken on board, and he -brought with him a manuscript which he had written on slips of the bark -of trees, relating the history of the Island. From his own lips yet more -of the story was gathered and written down by a Jesuit father who was -returning in the ship from a mission to the newly-settled Antarctic -Continent. - -There is no more to be told. The old Prince died on the voyage, glad to -depart as soon as he had told his tale. - -He had come to see many things clearly in his lonely years on the -mountain height. What these things were, beyond what has been written -here, he told to the Jesuit father—under the seal of confession. - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration] - - NOTES. - - - _Page 22._ - -How little any thought in those happy days from what quarter the storm -of invasion would come, or how the whole order of the civilized world -would be once more sunk under waves of barbarism! We might now indeed -despair, only that as from each such wave in ages past a better world -has risen than that which went before, from the depth of our trouble now -may rise the best of all-the new earth to which the new Heaven shall -come down. - - - _Page 26._ - -A very interesting paper in a magazine of last century by Professor -Seeley was the first prophecy of this European Court. See _Macmillan’s -Magazine_, March, 1871. - - - _Page 37._ - -_The women._—Of course I do not here allude to the wives of the -Anarchists, of whom some accompanied their husbands. - - - _Page 48._ - -_Troops._—This must not be understood as if national armies were then -existing. The United States of Europe and America maintained a large -military force, which was sent hither and thither, where needed, as -representing the Power which preserved the order of the civilized world -and controlled the still savage or unruly. - - - _Page 63._ - -Burmah had before this time ceased to be governed by England, having -insisted on “Home Rule.” - - - _Page 78._ - -The now reduced number of the Dacoits was felt to be no longer a cause -of danger if the rest of the society were ordered and strong; for it -will hereafter be shown that even a free association for the ordering of -a state must be able to deal in some way with the disorderly. - -[Illustration] - - -[Illustration: C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES - - - 1. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in - spelling. - 2. 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W.</span></div> - <div class='c003'>“Bind thyself with one cord.”</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/title.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>PUBLISHED BY MISS LANGLEY,</div> - <div>LOVEJOY’S LIBRARY, READING.</div> - <div>1887.</div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><span class='small'>Chiswick Press:</span></div> - <div><span class='small'>Charles Whittingham and Co.,</span></div> - <div><span class='small'>Tooks Court, London.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter ph1'> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>THE ISLAND OF</div> - <div>ANARCHY.</div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span> - <h2 class='c005'><span class='sc'>Chapter I.</span></h2> -</div> -<p class='c006'>“As for my particular, I am -verily perswaded, that since that -age (thirtie yeares), both my -spirit and my body have more -decreased than encreased, more -recoyled than advanced. It may -be that knowledge and experience -shall encrease in them, -together with life, that bestow -their time well: but vivacitie, -promptitude, constancie, and -other parts much more our owne, -more important, and more essentiall, -they droope, they languish, -and they faint.”—<span class='sc'>Montaigne</span> -(<cite>Florio’s translation</cite>).</p> - -<div class='c007'> - <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_005.jpg' width='100' alt=''> -</div><p class='drop-capi_8'> -The ending of the -nineteenth century, -like that of -the eighteenth, -was a time of terrible and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>strange things, as if it were -coming to be the law of -human affairs that the sunsets -of the centuries should -be red with a “Terror” -and dark with despair.</p> - -<p class='c008'>In England—then, as in -the past, the refuge of banished -men—social disorder -reached a height that -would soon have driven all -her quiet dwellers to seek -more peaceful homes on -the other side of the globe, -had not a new and strange -thing changed the whole -aspect of affairs.</p> - -<p class='c008'>It began to be perceived, -and was soon widely acknowledged, -that the cause -of the great weakness and -futility of our government -lay in the advanced age of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>those by whom the most -important offices were held. -Age is wont to trifle, to -take things lightly, and to -study life, of which it can -at best hope to possess so -little, from a frivolous and -temporary point of view.</p> - -<p class='c008'>“Things are well enough -as they are,” say they; “a -little tinkering here, a little -fancy legislation there, and -they will last our time; -meanwhile, let us hear ourselves -talk.”</p> - -<p class='c008'>The only wonder now -seemed that the world had -been so slow to perceive -this, that it had taken the -human race so many thousand -years to discover a -truth which now seemed as -simple and patent as the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>converse one, that it would -not be wise to entrust grave -affairs to children in their -first decade.</p> - -<p class='c008'>And so the younger men -of England, by a sudden -and united effort at the -general election of 19—, secured -the return of a House -of Commons containing no -man over the age of thirty-five, -and no woman: (for -women had begun to come -in and to make matters -worse).</p> - -<p class='c008'>This House of Commons, -strong, in earnest for -real work, and not divided -by Party, that frivolous -pastime of politicians who -were too old for other -games, passed without difficulty -a wise “superannuation -<span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>law.” And the government -of the country, thus -at last able to govern indeed, -made the almost -foundering ship of our unhappy -State once more answer -to the helm, and -steered for that haven of -peaceful order and settled -rule which men remembered -sadly as a lost Paradise -or longed for as -an undiscoverable “Atlantis.”</p> - -<p class='c008'>That <i>laws are made to be -obeyed</i> had glided in those -days from the place of a -truism into that of a fallacy. -It was the first principle -of the new Cabinet.</p> - -<p class='c008'>To two classes this principle -had to be made clear—Criminals, -or law-breakers; -<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>Anarchists, or law-deniers.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Of the first of these we -will speak first. It will now -hardly be believed that -there existed at that time in -England what were called -“the Criminal Classes”—thousands -of men, women, -and children known to be -living in the continual commission -of crime, as other -people are engaged in commerce, -husbandry, and the -like, spending much of -their time in prison, and -never doing or desiring any -honest work.</p> - -<p class='c008'>This state of things the -young government set -themselves to bring to an -end.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Instead of progressing -<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>towards that universal slipshod -leniency which the -philanthropists of an earlier -time had set before themselves -as a goal—with capital -punishment evaded for -awhile and eventually abolished,—these -rulers, with -all the ruthless severity of -youth, extended the area -of crimes punishable by -death. To those whose -lives were hurtful to the innocent -community, mercy -could only be shown, so they -held, at the expense of those -to whom mercy, that is, protection, -was really due. -Not only all who compassed, -or even attempted -the lives of others, but all -who after repeated smaller -punishments still lived the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>lives of evildoers, were -counted unworthy longer -to live,—and this without -any attempted distinction -of sane or insane,—the existence -of the latter being -considered even more hopelessly -injurious to the State -than that of the former, -and, on the other hand, less -valuable to themselves.</p> - -<p class='c008'>But while the punishment -of death was certain -and frequent, it was no -longer inflicted in the barbarous -manner which continued, -a ghastly anachronism, -through the reign of -the tender-hearted Victoria.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Those whose lives were -forfeit were placed for a -time—the length of which -depended on various circumstances—in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>a place of -solemn sequestration, to -the care of which a society -of holy men and women -devoted their existence, -and which was placed -rather under the authority -of the Church than of the -State. The State, indeed, -had done with them; they -were already cut off from -their place as citizens; it -only remained for the -Church to lead them with -kind hand through paths of -penitence and prayer to the -door of a new life, a new -hope—where this was possible. -With some, with -many perhaps, the soul -seemed already dead before -the body.</p> - -<p class='c008'>When the time came, surrounded -<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>by a serious company -of the “Brethren of -Death,” whose prayers and -solemn hymns made the -last moments beautiful to -those who were repentant, -and awful to those who -were hardened, the condemned -drank an opiate, -which closed their eyes in -a painless sleep from which -there was no waking, while -those about them still -prayed for the departing -spirit on its way to a higher -judgment.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Beautiful histories were -told of some who in the -quiet of their cells, aided -by the gentle ministrations -of the Brothers and Sisters, -came to see with an anguish -of repentance the sinfulness -<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>of their past, and to rejoice -in the thought of passing, -sprinkled with fresh dews -of penitence and forgiveness, -away from a world -whose temptations had been -too strong for them. Of -their forfeit lives they made -a willing sacrifice, and they -were glad to be allowed to -lay them down.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Children who had committed -crimes, after fitting -punishment were placed in -settlements where they were -kept under strict discipline -and carefully instructed, -the rudiments of some useful -art being added to a -simple education in general -subjects. Girls were trained -in household work, and all, -as soon as they were grown -<span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>men and women, were removed -from these settlements -to places where their -past was unknown, unless -they showed themselves so -dyed with their early habits -and so resolved to return -to them that this would -have been harmful to the -State.</p> - -<p class='c008'>In these cases, which -were very few, they were -treated in the same way as -the hardened offenders -of whom I have just -spoken.</p> - -<p class='c008'>There were not wanting -intelligent persons to whom -the punishment of death -for a misused life seemed a -terrible and even a wicked -thing. Yet, not only had -such punishment been in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>use for just such offences in -the time of Queen Elizabeth -and of other sovereigns, but -at so late a time as the commencement -of the present -century, war among civilized -nations was considered -justifiable, and the profession -of a soldier was even -held to be a noble and -Christian calling. The very -women whose tender hearts -cried out against the new -law would send their young -sons away with their blessing -to face death in compassing -that of other innocent -and unwilling victims -in a cause for which, often, -none of them cared. Those -who thus perished in war, -believing that it was for -their country’s honour that -<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>they fought, were among -the best and bravest of the -nation—men to whom discipline -and order were their -very breath. Those whom -the new law excluded from -life were scarcely worthy -of the name of men, and -more hostile to their country -than any of the soldiers of -other states.</p> - -<p class='c008'>This then was the course -adopted with reference to -the Law-Breakers. We must -now speak of the Law-Deniers. -Anarchy, Socialism, -free-land leagues, communistic -democracy more or -less indigenous, and every -shade of Nihilism and Dynamitism -introduced from the -East and the West, had so -long had free course that -<span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>a large mass of the population -had come to believe -practically that might was -right, and the problems of -the earliest stages of barbarism -were staring men in -the face as the products of -an over-ripe civilization.</p> - -<p class='c008'>It was true, and the young -rulers recognized this, that -much of the discontent of -the poorer classes had had -just ground in the indifference -and selfish luxury of -the rich, but that cause -was already in great part -removed, and in two -ways.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Women as highly educated -as men, and now wise -enough to see that they -were made for better things -than the dust of politics, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>turned their thoughts to -home reforms. Their -higher standard of principle -and refinement of taste led -to a contempt for what was -gorgeous or costly in dress -or equipage, food or furniture, -as essentially vulgar, -or at best barbaric. Thus -their quiet ways and simple -attire left little space to be -bridged over as regards outward -show between them -and the thrifty women of a -humbler class, and that -space was bridged by kindly -intercourse, by knowledge -shared, and by the -ready sympathy which is -the gift of the highest intelligence.</p> - -<p class='c008'>This was one great power -for good. The other was -<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>the fact that so many -owners of land had devoted -large portions of it to sites -for Industrial Villages, and -even those who had no sympathy -for the poor or enthusiasm -for the good of their -country, partly for fashion’s -sake, and partly because -these schemes proved not -only useful to the poor but -beneficial to the landowner, -joined to aid the great work -of withdrawing the population -from the towns into -the country.</p> - -<p class='c008'>The gradual disuse of -steam, with all its dismal -accompaniments of blackened -skies and unlovely -chimneys, allowed of almost -all manufactures being carried -on under healthy and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>cheerful conditions. On -every hill, rows of windmills -gathered the force -which produced electricity -and stored it for the use of -the village below; while by -every stream, and on every -shore visited by tides, the -forces of water were in the -same way brought into a service -which, being no longer -intermittent, was of permanent -and continuous value.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Thus the real misery of -the honest poor in England -was becoming a thing of -the past, and the large class -of people whose stock-in-trade -was the discontent of -others became at once more -reckless and more dangerous -when, flinging away all -disguise and separated from -<span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>those whose wrongs had -lent colour to their schemes, -they appeared under their -true flag as the enemies of -all law and duty, industry -and religion.</p> - -<p class='c008'>The young Cabinet saw -at once the way to meet -them. Those who would -not obey the laws of one -country must seek a home -in another. Banishment -seemed at once the mildest -and the most reasonable -punishment (if indeed it -can be so called),—not transportation -to some special -spot, but simply exile from -England and from all British -dominions and colonies—the -Great Federation -being absolutely united in -this important matter—under -<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>penalty of death if the -banished returned.</p> - -<p class='c008'>On conviction the Anarchist -was marked, by an -indelible brand in a painless -manner, with a red O in -sign of outlawry, and received -his sentence of banishment—and -in this way -some thousands of the disaffected -and idle were at -once removed from our -shores.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Some of them were of -the lowest and most violent -class, who are naturally -rude and lawless because -bound by no inner law -themselves (though, as has -been shown, those leading -an actually criminal life -were dealt with in other -ways); and associated with -<span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>them, indignant at the new -law, and therefore enthusiastically -determined to -share the fate of the exiled, -were men and women of a -far higher type, mistaken, -yet nobly in the wrong. -Some few were poets, historians, -religious visionaries, -women whose dreams -of a millennium were based -on a false notion of the -origin and essence of law. -All these last gave themselves -up at once, and -stretched out the right -hand that had held the pen, -or blessed the chalice, or -soothed the dying forehead, -for the circle in which they -gloried as a sign of their -fellowship with the oppressed.</p> - -<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>At first the result was, of -course, that in other countries -the Anarchists found -hearers for their doctrines -and ready adherents to -their destructive schemes, -the false notion that lawlessness -is liberty being -one readily welcomed by -the unthinking. But one -by one the countries to -which they had fled followed -the precedent of -England, and banished -from their shores also the -men and women of the -red right hand. In those -days the States of Europe -were already bound in a -sort of confederation, with -an International Court in -which matters of common -interest were discussed, and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>it was agreed that a place -must be found for the -growing nation of outlaws, -who else might justly plead -for a home in a law-obeying -state as a mere necessity -of humanity.</p> - -<p class='c008'>In the terrible era of volcanic -action which began -about the year 1885 and -lasted nearly half a century, -many coasts and islands -had been submerged, with -great loss of human life -and of the results of human -industry. Among others -the beautiful Island of Meliora -in the South Pacific -had been the scene of the -sudden formation of a volcano -and of a fearful eruption. -It seemed as if the -whole heart of the Island -<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>were poured for many -days and nights into the -sultry sky, and then sank -into the sea and was seen -no more.</p> - -<p class='c008'>After a period of several -years, the captain of a merchant -vessel, looking with -his corrected chart for the -circle of coral reef which -marked the place of the -lost Island, saw with wonder -Meliora re-arisen from the -sea, crowned by the wide -crater of its fatal mountain -and already clothed with -brilliant vegetation. It -would seem strange that -its re-appearance had not -been noticed by other vessels, -as the trees upon it -showed that it must have -been some years above -<span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>water, but this will not appear -remarkable when it is -known that no ordinary -course for vessels carried -them within sight of the -Island, and that the new -reefs which had been raised -around it by the action of -the volcano were so dangerous -that captains who -entered those seas avoided -their neighbourhood. The -line of coral reef which encircled -the Island had not -sunk more than a few feet, -hence the thick growth of -Coco-palms that covered it -had not been submerged, -and no doubt directly Meliora -arose from the waves -seeds from these would at -once begin to take root -and make rapid growth in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>that wonderful soil and climate.</p> - -<p class='c008'>When the captain of the -“Ville d’Is,” driven out of -his way by adverse winds, -saw the wonder of the restored -land, it was at the -moment of perplexity of -which I have spoken as to -where the outlawed nation -should find a home.</p> - -<p class='c008'>It was at once resolved -by the united governments -of Europe that they should -be offered transport to this -Island—an offer which the -most part gladly accepted, -chased as they had been -from country to country, -and very weary of their -wandering.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Indeed, what other chance -remained for them, since -<span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>to enter any civilized country, -any country governed -by settled rule of law, was -to die?</p> - -<p class='c008'>From all points of the -compass ships with various -flags entered the circle of -reefs that surrounded Meliora, -and set down their -strange passengers on that -beautiful shore.</p> - -<p class='c008'>A land large enough for -all, fertile as a garden of -romance, perfect in climate, -and abounding in all they -could need for food, clothing -and shelter, what more -could the outlaws desire?</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_031.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span></div> -<div class='chapter'> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_032.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> -<div> - <h2 class='c005'><span class='sc'>Chapter II.</span></h2> -</div> - -</div> - -<p class='c006'>“Exile is when a man is for -a crime condemned to depart out -of the dominion of the commonwealth, -or out of a certain part -thereof, and during a prefixed -time, or for ever, not to return -to it; and seemeth not in its -own nature, without other circumstances, -to be a punishment; -but rather an escape, or a public -commandment to avoid punishment -by flight.”—<span class='sc'>Hobbes’</span> <cite>Leviathan</cite>.</p> - -<div class='c007'> - <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_032.jpg' width='100' alt=''> -</div><p class='drop-capi_8'> -The first to land -in Meliora were -a company of -English Socialists, -with whom a few of -the best who so called themselves -<span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span>were careful to cast -in their lot. These were -men of forethought and resource, -and the truth that -the circumstances of men -are made by their inner -natures was never more -clearly seen than in the -difference which soon appeared -in the homes of the -new settlers. The leader -of this elect company was -an old Scholar who in -his younger days had distinguished -himself in many -ways, but, from a genuine -belief that the medicine of -a sick world lay in a socialist -creed, had laid aside all -that had gained him fame -and credit for this one -dream, and sealed his -choice with the brand.</p> - -<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>To him in his old age, -after years of desolate wanderings, -the thought of a -home in a new Atlantis -was welcome indeed,—the -soft sweet air of the southern -seas, the beautiful vegetation -and strange fantastic -story of the Island awakened -the old poetic feelings of -his youth, and it seemed -as if his mission to the -world would here meet fulfilment -and find its lost -harmony with the earlier -longings of his genius and -fancy.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Through his help and -counsel the first settlement -of the land was organized, -houses suitable to the climate -were built, Indian -corn and other crops for -<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>which they had brought a -common stock of seed were -sown for the coming season, -and to each was allotted an -equal share of the fruitful -land on which there was -only so much need to -labour as Adam found in -Milton’s Paradise.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Some of course were more -industrious, some more ingenious, -than others. Some -had less bodily vigour; among -these were those of -whom I have spoken as the -elect few—the old Scholar -and a little company of -young clerics, “Priests” of -the Church of England.</p> - -<p class='c008'>This Church from the -time of its disestablishment -had begun a new life—it -had at once shown its vitality -<span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span>by casting off some of -its old disused organisms -and by adapting itself in -quick sympathy to the -needs of a changed order -of things.</p> - -<p class='c008'>The young Priests of -whom I have spoken believed -that men had lost -sight of the great communistic -idea of early Christianity, -and they made -themselves poor and homeless -for the sake of their -creed. True brethren of the -Cross they were, not the -less willing to cast in their -lot with the outlawed because -most of these denied -the Christian faith with -their lips. Some of them -they knew acknowledged it -in their lives, while in the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>multitude who cast away -all law and chose evil rather -than good, they recognized -the lost sheep whom it was -their mission if possible to -recall.</p> - -<p class='c008'>These men, who were less -strong in body than many -others, were yet much more -skilful in the use they made -of the advantages which all -shared alike, and even the -women, of whom a small -company of enthusiasts -had arrived, were so wise -and industrious in the -building of their simple -homes and the tilling of -their small plots, that the -western point of the Island, -in which these elect ones -took up their abode, became -soon a thriving and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>pleasant settlement, while -the homes of the less intelligent, -even of those who were -of great bodily strength, -were of poorer construction, -their lands worse tilled, -and an altogether different -manner of living and occupation -prevailed among -them.</p> - -<p class='c008'>And this notwithstanding -that the little brotherhood -of Priests made no home -for themselves beyond a -rude shelter from the air -before they had built with -the best skill they possessed, -and with all the -help they could persuade -others to give them, a -church where daily worship -of the simplest kind was -offered.</p> - -<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>Things went for a time -very happily; all that the -elect company possessed of -skill or knowledge they -were eager to share with -others. The old Scholar of -whom I have spoken gave -advice in regard to the -building of each new dwelling; -those whose crops -were the largest shared with -those who had least, and -through the whole little colony -in the western part of -the Island a common exile -produced a common feeling -of loyalty to one another, -and of desire for the good -of the community, to which -for a time even those who -professed to believe in no -moral order yielded. I -cannot say that the white -<span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>wooden church among the -Bread-fruit trees held many -worshippers, but at least -the Christian Brotherhood -was looked upon as a harmless -and kindly element in -the new society.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Some Russian noblemen -and students were among -the next arrivals. They -were full of enthusiasm for -the future of the settlement, -though enraged at their -banishment, and a little -jealous of the established -order they found on the -island and of the influence -of the Scholar and the -Priests. The former, by the -love and esteem in which -he was held by many, and -even by the beauty of -his venerable countenance, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>seemed to them dangerously -like a patriarch or chief, -and the superiority of the -western dwellings was to -them a sign of something -reactionary. They built -their own homes rather -carelessly, and gathered -little companies together -by the side of the Lagoon -to whom they talked in low -and earnest tones and in -excellent English of the -beauty of Anarchy and of -Nihilism, glorifying the -<i>absence</i> of certain things as -a <i>presence</i> more than any -religion or philosophy had -done before. The “Nothing” -of Molinos, the -emptiness of Nirvana, would -have been far too existent -for them.</p> - -<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>Their ideas did not always -meet with acceptance, -for even the more violent -of the Socialists could -hardly see that there was -an object for destructive -denunciations in the simple -order which seemed to -them an assurance of individual -freedom.</p> - -<p class='c008'>But a change was coming.</p> - -<p class='c008'>I am not going here to -write the history of the -great Irish revolution which -followed the separation of -that country from England. -It is well known how terrible -that time was, and how, -when all men were wearied -out and sick to death of -the horrors of civil war, -there followed a great swing -<span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>of the pendulum towards -order and high-handed -government; they entreated -for a king of the Royal -Family of England, and a -strongly Conservative Cabinet -in Dublin banished in -large numbers all who remained -of the disaffected -party.</p> - -<p class='c008'>These were the men who -next landed in Meliora. -They had been maddened -with rage against their own -Church in consequence of -the wise part taken by the -Pope and the Irish bishops -against the revolutionary -party. Hence they were -enemies of all creeds and -forms of religion, and they -were also of course filled -with the old bitterness -<span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>against all of English -race.</p> - -<p class='c008'>At the same time a great -number of German and -Belgian Socialists of the -most violent kind were also -landed on the Island, and -they found no difficulty in -making friends at once with -the Irish company, the -German system of education -having made them as perfect -in the use of foreign -tongues as it left them ignorant -of the first principles -of moral law and of all -sound theories of government -and political economy.</p> - -<p class='c008'>These new-comers settled -themselves in the southeast -of the Island, where -there were large forests of -Coco-palms, Bananas, and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>Bread-fruit trees, which -they began at once to fell -in order to use the timber -for their houses, and this -in so wasteful a way that -they cut down those trees -which were valuable for -fruit, but of slight use as -timber, quite as freely as the -others. Indeed, for such -houses as they wanted much -smaller wood was sufficient. -The abundant Hybiscus -would have supplied all -their material in that climate, -where solid and substantial -dwellings are entirely -needless.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Not content with a reckless -destruction in their own -district, they did not scruple -to begin cutting wood from -the coco-bearing reef which -<span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>fringed the Lagoon far to -the westward of their settlement.</p> - -<p class='c008'>A gentle remonstrance -from those whom I will -name the Western party -called forth feelings of anger -and unreason in these men -of violent ideas, and there -arose among them, it is -scarcely known how, an -idea of building ships in -which they might go out and -subdue some neighbouring -islands. At the same time -they had a scheme for constructing -defences on their -own shore against the attacks -they might in this -manner provoke. And, -later, they showed signs of -erecting a sort of stockade -which, with the abrupt line -<span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>of the great mountain and -its outlying ridges of broken -crater, would separate them -from the Western settlement. -At first, as has been -said, the scheme which led -to their cutting down the -forest was chiefly one for -shipbuilding. To this the -Western party strongly opposed -themselves.</p> - -<p class='c008'>What indeed was the use -of such a project? All the -islands of the South Pacific, -in which signs of their great -future were already foreshadowing, -were members -of the British Federation. -To land on any one of -them could only mean a defiance -of the whole power -of that Federation, some -fresh laws of repression, and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>possibly the presence of -troops in the island.</p> - -<p class='c008'>And this, a mean and -futile struggle with the laws -of a strong country instead -of the peaceful future for -which the Island might have -looked—a future not of conflict, -but of freedom and -peace, so the Western enthusiasts -believed—a future -in which every man should -be a law to himself, in which -each should willingly work -for all—a future from which -the old world, with its worn-out -notions, should learn -this lesson—that to be without -laws was not to be lawless, -and that freedom from -forms of external government -did not mean slavery -to selfishness and passion.</p> - -<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span>Such counsels of perfection -were hardly fitted for -the wilder notions of the -Southern and Eastern settlers. -The remonstrances -of the West were met with -many an angry cry. From -the Irish that they had not -come round the world to -submit again to English -rule; from the Russians -that they would not be -governed by priests; from -the Germans every possible -argument with no possible -ground.</p> - -<p class='c008'>After a time a sort of -parliament was convened -in an amphitheatre formed -by one of the craters of the -great mountain. No one -could think of this strange -place of assembly as having -<span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>been so lately given over -to the two fiercer elements -of those primal four in -which the old world believed, -the rush of angry -Fire, or the wash of stormy -Waves under which it had -lain a little while, but long -enough for the busy coral -creatures to have claimed it -for a foundation. Now it -seemed as if Earth from the -beginning had held it in -her green arms, and as if -the gentle Air had immemorially -carried to and fro -the sleepy odours of its -wonderful flowers.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Here they met, the Western -party standing loyally -round their leaders and chief -speakers—the old Scholar -of whom I have spoken, the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>young Priests, and a large -company of English working -men, who believed -heartily in the communistic -idea. I will not say that -as they discussed the affairs -of their Island nationality -and opinion always kept -together. There were some -Englishmen of a low type -who applauded the violent -and warlike party; there -was a company of the wiser -and more educated Russians -who were convinced -by the words of the West; -there were moderate men -among the Germans and -Belgians; but the Irish were -mostly for the axe and the -sword. It was clearly shown -at this time that the Moderates -were in the minority; -<span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>there was no force to which -they could appeal, and, as -the sun set behind the -ridge on which they stood, -they turned and went rather -sadly homeward.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Still there seemed one -effort to be made. The -Western party was now, -through the opposition of -the South, bound by a real -unity of thought. They -could, at any rate, set -themselves to persuade by -individual converse some -of the other side; indeed, -as I have said, some of the -better class of Russian Nihilists -had already been -convinced—these might influence -their own people.</p> - -<p class='c008'>So for a while, though -without much hope, milder -<span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>counsels were urged here -and there by messengers -from the West, who went -singly across the hills to -speak to all who would -listen. The young Priests -even endeavoured to recall -some of the settlers of the -South to thoughts of duty -and heavenly wisdom, and -preached the gladness of a -life in which each lived for -his fellows, in contrast with -the misery of that state in -which each strove for his -own gain, wrangling like -brute beasts. But though -some few, touched by words -that recalled an innocent -past, inclined at least to -consider their meaning, -there were but few who -were ready to receive them, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>and to most the Cross -seemed but a worn-out emblem -of the creed of oppressors.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Finally, the sole result of -all these efforts was to -rouse the opposition of the -Southern leaders, who went -to and fro denouncing those -of the West, inflaming the -passions of their own followers -by violent appeals -and angry denunciations, -till that day came which all -had foreseen—how could it -indeed not come? Yet it -seemed, so said those who -remained to tell the story, -as if so horrible a thing -could not really happen in -that sweet, languid air, under -that warm sun, tempered -by soft winds and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>sweet with a thousand -flowers. Conflict and tumult -and cruelty—what -had they to do with such a -scene?</p> - -<p class='c008'>It was a Sunday morning. -All the Western folk were -gathered in and round the -church, whose open arcaded -sides allowed those without -to join freely the worship -of those within. The church -indeed was too large for -those who mostly cared to -enter it, but to-day the sense -of coming trouble brought -the whole community together.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Suddenly upon the sound -of prayer broke in the noisy -shouts and hideous laughter -of their enemies; a wild -multitude came rushing -<span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>through the trees, and then -forming a ring round the -church and the kneeling -crowd, they called for those -they most hated in all that -company—the Scholar and -the Priests.</p> - -<p class='c008'>The old Scholar, if the -truth be told, was one who -had no love for creeds; he -cared little for churches, -though these Churchmen -he had come to honour as -men—good men, wise, gentle -and true of heart. He -took pleasure in believing -that he was no Christian, -not knowing himself. For -in truth he loved the Christ -in His poor, and in these -men His servants, and he -had long lived, though, as -has been said, not thinking -<span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>it, the life of the Cross. -Self had long been put -away, so far as it can be -by any still dwelling in the -flesh, only he had not ever -looked up into the face of -Him who led him by the -hand. He was therefore not -within the church, but a -little away, under a Bread-fruit -tree.</p> - -<p class='c008'>But when he heard them -call his name, he came and -stood upon the steps at the -door and spoke to the -leaders of the crowd. He -said that they might do as -they would with him, but -he would entreat them once -again to consider what was -good for the peace and -safety of the whole Island. -He begged them to spare -<span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>the Priests who had come -there to serve them, to -teach their children, and to -help all with wise counsels -and the example of virtuous -lives. While he spoke, these -men, having reverently -finished their prayers, came -and stood beside him. Then -the crowd broke out in -wild cries and thrust them -back into the church, while -some of their number, with -a sudden inspiration from -the Evil Will, set fire to the -slight wooden roof of the -porch.</p> - -<p class='c008'>It was but for a little -while that the flames ran -round the dry, thin walls -and mounted the wooden -spire, and rose, a column -of clear, pale scarlet against -<span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>the brilliant green -of the tall Bread-fruit -trees. Those within the -church saw that there was -no escape, and the youngest -of the Priests, a boyish fellow -who in England had -thought much about stoles -and albs, quietly gave out -the hymn they had meant -to sing at the end of the -service. All joined with -one voice, and only as the -flames wrapped round and -choked them the sound of -their singing died away—no -groan, no cry for help, -no struggle to escape, but -just one solemn, triumphant -martyr song, and all was -still. The old Scholar died -on the steps of the altar, as -they knew by his signet -<span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>ring, an antique of great -beauty, on which was engraved -the figure of a man -bound by his outstretched -hands and feet, supposed -to represent Prometheus -chained upon the rock.</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_060.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span></div> -<div class='chapter'> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_061.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> -<div> - <h2 class='c005'><span class='sc'>Chapter III.</span></h2> -</div> - -</div> -<p class='c006'>“This is the righteous maid, the -comforter.”</p> - -<div class='c007'> - <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_061.jpg' width='100' alt=''> -</div><p class='drop-capi_8'> -Thus ended the -hopes of the -West. The time -that followed -was one of wild confusion. -Violence was the only law, -and those who escaped in -that terrible day yielded -themselves in hopeless misery -to the disorders they -<span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span>could not avert or control. -Some few there always were -who longed for order and -peace, and mourned in silence -for their lost leaders; -but none had the courage -to speak out.</p> - -<p class='c008'>It was in these days that -a ship of strange appearance -was seen approaching -the entrance of the Lagoon, -which, passing quickly -round to the north of the -Island, a bare, rocky region -not yet inhabited, landed -there a large number of -passengers, and before the -rest of the inhabitants could -cross the mountain and discover -who were the new-comers, -the ship which -brought them had vanished -again into the open sea.</p> - -<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>A stealthy departure and -scarcely to be wondered -at, for the government -of Burmah had grave fears -whether even on the Island -of Outlaws its passengers -could be welcomed -or endured. They were a -large company of an entirely -lawless robber race known -at that time by the name of -Dacoits—the terror of the -Burmese country.</p> - -<p class='c008'>These men soon found -that they had been put -ashore on the least fertile -part of the Island, and they -began to come over the -heights and plunder the -older settlers for whatever -they needed, even driving -them from their homes and -taking possession of these.</p> - -<p class='c008'><span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>There was no government -or settled order to -which anyone could appeal—“each -man for himself” -was the only rule. The -number of the early settlers -was much diminished by -the years of strife and violence, -and though some of -those who came as children -to the Island were now -growing to man’s and woman’s -estate, these were not -many, and the fact that -among the older settlers -there were some who had -families was a great source -of weakness to them as -against the new-comers, for -even the most lawless of -the old Southern men -dreaded the attacks of -these wild marauders upon -<span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span>their feeble women and -children.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Thus the presence of the -Dacoits wrought a change -at once on the island.</p> - -<p class='c008'>The common trouble to -which they were now exposed -inclined the earlier -settlers to look upon one -another with more friendly -eyes, and indeed I think by -this time they were all beginning -a little to weary of -conflict, and so they drew -together and determined on -measures in which they -should all unite for driving -the Dacoits back to the -North, or at any rate reducing -them to some sort -of subjection.</p> - -<p class='c008'>But this was by no means -easy. Men who had no -<span class='pageno' id='Page_66'>66</span>scruple at midnight murder, -and delighted in the torture -of little children in the sight -of their mothers, could not -be met by any force but -that of perfectly organized -and strong repression, and -the leaders of the party -who now represented the -order of the Island began to -dread whether they would -not indeed all perish at the -hands of these savage invaders. -It might be so, -but all that was best in -these men rose up to meet -the danger and to defend -their homes. They were -beginning to understand -the meaning of union, of -some sort of law, of the -sacrifice of the will of each -one to the good of the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span>whole, when a new thing -happened.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Some Dacoits who had -just been driven back from -a plundering expedition -were men who had learnt -a few words of English, and -as they sullenly retired they -uttered terrible threats against -their opponents, -which they said they would -perform when the next moon -was round, for then ships -would come bringing their -friends, and they made signs -to show that these would -come in great numbers.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Here were indeed tidings -of despair for the settlers. -They met once again in the -green amphitheatre in which -they had been convened -before, and many of them -<span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span>remembered sadly how -things had changed for the -worse since that day. The -presence of this terror made -them all of one accord, -though there seemed nothing -to be done. The -shipbuilding projects had -been long abandoned among -the pre-occupations -of their internal conflicts, -and the little boats in which -they crossed the Lagoon -were perfectly useless for -long voyages at this time of -year; but indeed, since all -could not leave the Island, -none of them would dream -of deserting their companions -in misery.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Further, if other reason -were needed for their remaining, -all but the children -<span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span>and quite young men and, -women bore the brand -which made life impossible -for them elsewhere.</p> - -<p class='c008'>And now a voice was -heard among the anxious -company to which all listened, -for most of them -knew it well. It was a -woman’s voice, the voice of -one who came among the -first settlers of the West, -drawn there not by political -sympathy or communistic -fellow-feeling with them, -but simply by the thought -that here, if anywhere, -would be sick souls to heal, -sick bodies to tend, and -women and little children -needing help and care. She -was called “Our Sister,” -and no one had learnt anything -<span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span>of her family or her -history. Of those whom she -comforted in sickness or -trouble, each one felt assured -that she held the creed his -mother had taught him as -a little child; some would -have sworn she belonged -to the Church of Rome; -the Russians claimed her -as theirs; some wild Welsh -Home-Rulers were certain -that she belonged to the -Primitive Methodist Connexion; -and a company of -rough men from the English -iron districts were still -more certain that her gentle -voice was that of a Quakeress -from a secluded Yorkshire -valley.</p> - -<p class='c008'>It did hot matter.</p> - -<p class='c008'>She had escaped, almost -<span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span>alone of the inmost circle -of the West, at the time of -the burning of the church, -by the fact that she was -that day nursing a little -child who was sick of a -fever and whose mother -had just died. Since that -time evil habits and careless -living had led to a great -spread of this terrible disease, -and the Sister had -gone from one sick bed to -another bringing medicine -and the healing of her presence, -and there were those -who said that something -miraculous lay in the touch -of her hands and the whisper -of her prayer.</p> - -<p class='c008'>It was her voice that -spoke in the midst of the -people that day. She stood -<span class='pageno' id='Page_72'>72</span>on a little mound among -the tangled growth of -scented flowers—almost amidst -of the great amphitheatre—and -in the perfect -hush of her hearers and the -stillness of the clear windless -air every syllable was -heard.</p> - -<p class='c008'>She said that these troubles -had come upon them, -as they knew, through their -own folly and dissensions; -that they might now, if they -were indeed united, resist -their enemies and oblige -them to live peaceably in -their own part of the Island, -getting their supplies from -the northern reef, which was -very fruitful, and not crossing -the hills; that if, taking -warning from the weakness -<span class='pageno' id='Page_73'>73</span>which their disorders had -brought, they would set -themselves to strengthen -some simple form of government, -they might even -yet live peaceable and happy -lives on the Island. If the -new company of Dacoits -found them thus united -and strong they might submit -to the same rule as the -others; but alas! the moon -was near the full. There -was but little time for such -measures, even if all did -their best.</p> - -<p class='c008'>But there was one weapon -they had all long neglected, -the weapon of Prayer, and -she entreated them all to -kneel down around her.</p> - -<p class='c008'>The wild multitude thus -taken unawares in a serious -<span class='pageno' id='Page_74'>74</span>mood did not bethink them -of scoffing, indeed they -loved her, and that was -enough.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Her sweet, piercing voice -seemed to touch the cloudless -sky as she confessed -the sins of that company -and acknowledged their -need of all things; and with -words that claimed as the -gift certain to be given by a -loving father’s hand, what -others would timidly have -asked as a doubtful favour -from a distant king, she -seemed to lay hold at once -with a strong hand on all -the infinite help hidden in -the storehouse of the Heavenly -Will.</p> - -<p class='c008'>She claimed for that -company, not safety only, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_75'>75</span>but blessings and gladness -undreamed of by any; and -when she ended, a great -“Amen” went up from all -that strange congregation.</p> - -<p class='c008'>At this moment a wild -cry was heard from those -who stood on the eastern -ridge of the crater, which -commanded the sea and -the opening in the reef by -which vessels entered the -Lagoon. A ship whose -lines were but too well -known was in sight: the -Dacoits were coming.</p> - -<p class='c008'>The whole assembly -climbed up the sides of the -crater and on to the long -ridge of hill beyond, and -stood looking seaward. -The ship came quickly -nearer—when those who -<span class='pageno' id='Page_76'>76</span>knew the coast observed -that, instead of following -the winding channel of deep -water that leads to the -opening of the Lagoon, they -were hurrying on to a great -sunken reef to the north of -this, on which the sea, being -unusually calm, was not -breaking as it was wont to -do at most seasons.</p> - -<p class='c008'>They saw a crowd of -Dacoits rush to the shore -making signs to those on -board, but it was too late. -The ship struck, and sank -at once in the fathomless -depth of water outside the -reef. The Dacoits on shore -swam across the Lagoon, -and running over the reef -again, swam towards the -sunken ship, and dived in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_77'>77</span>the hope of saving their -friends. But during this -little space of time, the -tide, which turns there very -suddenly, brought great -waves again to break over -the sunken rocks and on -the outer edge of the reef, -and many of those who -swam out to the wreck -were drowned.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Why the ship took the -wrong course no one could -ever know; perhaps, having -made the voyage before, -the captain ventured without -a pilot.</p> - -<p class='c008'>To all who stood on the -mountain ridge and saw -what happened in that -short space of time, it -seemed only that their -prayer had been answered.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span></div> -<div class='chapter'> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_078.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> -<div> - <h2 class='c005'><span class='sc'>Chapter IV.</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>“Love, and do what thou wilt.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class='c007'> - <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_078.jpg' width='100' alt=''> -</div><p class='drop-capi_8'> -The next day -another great -meeting was -convened.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Their deliverance and -the manner of it had -wrought a great change -in many, especially in the -less educated of the community, -who experienced -at that time a <i>conversion</i>—that -<span class='pageno' id='Page_79'>79</span>reversal of the -natural selfish state which -makes self come last -instead of first in the -thoughts of a man, and -which leads him also to -realize a Presence in the -Unseen. I mention this -because it very much -changed the nature of their -deliberations. I do not say -that these conversions -would have had a lasting -effect but for certain events -which followed.</p> - -<p class='c008'>All desired a settled order -in the Island. Those -who were not truly in principle -Anarchists, but rather -Democrats, proposed some -form of social contract by -which they might “confer -all their power and strength -<span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>upon one man, or upon -one assembly of men, that -might reduce all their wills, -by plurality of voices, unto -one will; which is as much -as to say, to appoint one -man, or assembly of men, -to bear their Person: and -every one to owne, and -acknowledge himself to be -Author of whatsoever he -that so beareth their person -shall Act, or cause to -be acted in those things -which concerne the common -Peace and Safetie; -and therein to submit their -Wills, every one to his Will, -and their Judgments to his -Judgment. This is more -than consent or concord; -it is a real Unitie of them -all, in one and the same -<span class='pageno' id='Page_81'>81</span>Person, made by covenant -of every man with every -man, in such manner, as if -every man should say to -every man, ‘I authorize -and give up my right of -governing myself to this -Man or to this assembly of -men, on this condition, -that thou give up thy right -to him and authorize all his -actions in like manner.’”</p> - -<p class='c008'>These words are originally -those of Thomas -Hobbes of Malmesbury, -and these, or something -like these, were spoken on -this occasion by a young -Englishman of gentle birth -and manners, but of very -ungentle notions when first -he came to the Island. He -was not one of those who -<span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span>came of their own free will, -but as a branded man, -having continued, after -many warnings, to gather -large companies of men in -the London squares, and -to exhort them to Revolution.</p> - -<p class='c008'>He was now, notwithstanding, -as we have seen, -rather old-fashioned in his -ideas, and his proposal was -met by not a little opposition. -Who, it was asked, should -be the governing body? -How chosen? Who should -make, and who enforce, -the laws? All the old well-worn, -yet not worn-out difficulty -about elections, and -minorities, and oligarchies, -seemed to appear in forecast -on the Island, which -<span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span>at least had never known -these evils; and the young -man, as the argument proceeded, -felt himself to have -been in the wrong.</p> - -<p class='c008'>But the voice which on -this day made itself heard -with the most clearness -and decision was that of a -Russian Prince, who was -persuaded as firmly as he -had ever been that in Anarchy—absence -of all government—lay -the only true -order of society. He had -always acknowledged that -to this end certain principles -of morality recognized -by the whole community, -were necessary. He had -believed, on first coming to -the Island, that the mere -absence of outward law -<span class='pageno' id='Page_84'>84</span>would develop in men that -natural morality from which, -under the blight of government, -they had fallen away; -and he had opposed the -work of the Priests of the -West on the ground that -the artificial restraints of -religion are as fatal as civil -enactments to the free -growth of this natural virtue. -But he had seen what -sort of fruit was borne by -common human nature -when first left in a wild -garden. His soul had been -awakened to find that the -morality of which he had -dreamed, kindled and -made living could be no -other than the life of the -Cross.</p> - -<p class='c008'>In truth, like the old -<span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span>Scholar of the Western settlement, -his heart had long -been dwelling in the place -of lowly service and of -death to self, without knowing -the meaning of such a -life, or putting it into the -words of the Christian faith; -for the Christian faith that -he had been taught had -been shut up in sacred -books and disguised in sacred -images, and so hidden -from his eyes.</p> - -<p class='c008'>But on the evening before -this convention, after -the great deliverance, he -had gone up the western -slope of the mountain and -had found the Sister sitting -in silent meditation at the -door of her house, wearied -with all the anxieties and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_86'>86</span>events of the day, and with -the reaction that comes to -all high natures after times -of tension and excitement. -The thought of the drowned -Dacoits, of the unsettled -state of the Island, of the -wickedness that abounded, -and of her own helplessness -for good, weighed on her -sensitive spirit. She was in -Elijah’s mood when he -said, “Oh, that I now might -die!”</p> - -<p class='c008'>To those who feel weary -and wanting all things, the -call is often to work and to -give; and so it was that -evening with the Sister. -They spoke together by -the door of her house till -the full moon dropped -from the height of the northern -<span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span>sky towards the western -sea; and as they talked -the things unseen seemed -the only realities. The -high hope and faith in -which the Sister had long -lived and moved were communicated -in that hour to -the seeking soul of the -Prince; his whole being -rose up to greet the new -vision of the Best; and -when he took his leave of -the teacher to whom he -owed so much, it was not to -return at once to his home -by the southern shore. He -climbed by a steep path to -the mountain top, and -there, till the moon set and -dawn came over the sea, he -communed with his own -heart and swore a solemn -<span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span>allegiance to the Master -whom he had chosen.</p> - -<p class='c008'>To-day, full of hope and -confidence, he rose among -the people, and laid before -them his scheme of a Christian -Anarchy—a society of -men set free from all outward -law, set free from the -bondage of self and of evil -desires, because the willing -servants of a holy Lord.</p> - -<p class='c008'>As we have seen, he was -not the first to speak in the -assembly; his old restless -desire to make his voice -heard was gone; he was -clothed with a new humility. -The cause for which -he pleaded was not his, -but that of One who hastes -not:—</p> - -<div class='lg-container-b c009'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'><span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span>“Day by day,</div> - <div class='line'>And year by year He tarrieth: little need</div> - <div class='line'>The Lord should hasten.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c008'>It has been shown that -the people were ready in -heart for such an appeal. -There was not one voice -raised against him; each -seemed fired by a high enthusiasm -for the good of -all; each eager only that -the highest will should be -done.</p> - -<p class='c008'>This will not seem strange -to those who realize the excitement -of the times just -past, and who remember -how frequent in the history -of religion has been the -sudden awakening, under -strong feeling, of large multitudes -of men. I will not -<span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span>say that this was altogether -unlike such other awakenings; -I only say that it was -more lasting in its consequences -than many such -have been.</p> - -<p class='c008'>With a people in this -temper the structure of the -new Polity seemed rather -the building up of a Church -than the ordering of a Commonwealth.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Yet it truly resembled -neither of these things. -They determined that no -written laws, no written -book of religion, no formal -creed should have a place -among them. They had -seen how law-making means -law-breaking, and they determined -that their rule of -life should be simply this -<span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>one thing—a principle, a -passion, not a command; -just this—Love to a living -Lord, in whom they recognized -the perfection of all -that the mind of man can -conceive as holiest and -best, whom they knew to be -among them always. In all -troubles and difficulties -they stretched out hands of -prayer and proved His presence.</p> - -<p class='c008'>These being their -thoughts, it was rather a -furtherance of their work -than a hindrance of it that -all the books of the Priests -had been consumed in the -burning of the church. -They did not attempt, as -they might well have done, -to reconstruct a book of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_92'>92</span>Faith from the words and -thoughts with which the -memories of the Sister -and some others were -stored.</p> - -<p class='c008'>These were held all the -more precious because they -had to be told by one to -another, and told again and -again, till in the hearts of -all were embedded as shining -jewels fragments of perfect -truth and flashes of -mystical insight. Dearest -to all were the parable of -the Vine and Its branches, -the Story of the Cross, the -“Sermon on the Mount,” -and many sayings such as -these: “The letter killeth, -but the Spirit giveth life;” -“He that loveth his life -shall lose it;” many -<span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>words of St. Paul, and -especially those which -tell of the struggle of the -soul to get free from the -only real tyranny, and the -splendid anarchy of the -slaves of Christ; many -sayings of Thomas à Kempis, -of Tauler, of Molinos, -and of Marcus Aurelius, -dear to the heart of -the Sister; many fragments -of poems and hymns such -as she loved and had learnt; -many beautiful old hymns -which some of the wives of -the German Socialists remembered -and sang. But -it would not be possible -even to hint at the chosen -words which ruled the lives -of that happy community, -every voice in which swelled -<span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span>the sweet hymn of praise -which rose at morn and -even among the Bread-fruit -groves. They did not assemble -to worship or to -sing, for they sang and worshipped -everywhere.</p> - -<p class='c008'>No one called anything -his own; and each was -eager to find opportunities -of helping others with his -strength or his substance.</p> - -<p class='c008'>But as to the Dacoits, -concerning them even the -Prince was led to doubt the -fitness of Anarchy. They -were not, indeed, now so -strong, or the rest of the -community so weak, that -they could not be forced to -submit to laws; but they -did not seem able to understand -the very rudiments -<span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span>of that inner law which he -saw was needful to the -peace of a country ordered -on the principles of which -we have spoken.</p> - -<p class='c008'>So they were taken in -calm weather in the Lagoon -boats to a small neighbouring -island, where they -would find plenty of food, -but no large timber of which -boats might be built; and -they were left there to work -out for themselves the problem -just solved on Meliora.</p> - -<p class='c008'>How long the Anarchy, -which was truly a Theocracy, -would have continued -in unbroken peace cannot -be known. It is possible -that, though the children -of the first settlers were -<span class='pageno' id='Page_96'>96</span>passionately eager for settled -order, and enthusiastically -religious, their children -might show a return of -evil tendencies, and that -those who did not remember -the first fearful days of -strife in the Island might -wilfully have roused again -a spirit of disorder; for the -world and all the spheres -mount only in upward spirals -toward that point of -the Heavens where they -shall rest at last, and are -turning always to the same -point again, only a little -higher than before.</p> - -<p class='c008'>What did happen was -this.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Not long after the time -of which I have written, -the Sister having died, and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_97'>97</span>been buried at her desire -high up on the mountain, -the Prince went one evening -to sit by her grave awhile -and to gather strength -by communing with the -spirit that had first led him -into the way of gladness.</p> - -<p class='c008'>It had been a sultry day, -and the breeze that was -wont to cool the Island -when the sun went down -was this day asleep; no -breath lifted the heavy air.</p> - -<p class='c008'>The heart of the Prince -was mournful too; only -the hidden help which -never fails upheld him in -the vague depression which -stole over him.</p> - -<p class='c008'>Then he heard suddenly -a strange rumbling sound in -the mountain under him; -<span class='pageno' id='Page_98'>98</span>the earth shook, and as he -sprang to his feet he saw a -horrible sight—the sea -drawn back from the reef, -sucked from the great Lagoon, -and then rushing in -upon the Island and surging -up over the reef, over the -fringe of Palms, over all the -peaceful homes below. -Twice this was repeated as -he staggered down from the -highest point of the mountain; -and when the violence -of the shock was over, the -crater lay at his feet a salt -lagoon, and over all the -fruitful plain the sea lay -deep and still.</p> - -<p class='c008'>He alone was left of all -that land’s inhabitants.</p> - -<p class='c008'>To a nature like his -there was nothing terrible -<span class='pageno' id='Page_99'>99</span>in solitude, nor did the -whole of this awful event -seem to him so sad as it -would have been to hear -one evil word from the lips -of a child.</p> - -<p class='c008'>He lived for some years -after this a life of meditation -and peace, finding just -enough food to supply his -need among the fruits of -the higher mountain forests; -and one day, in his extreme -old age, a ship’s boat seeking -water entered the Lagoon. -He was taken on -board, and he brought with -him a manuscript which he -had written on slips of the -bark of trees, relating the -history of the Island. From -his own lips yet more of the -story was gathered and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_100'>100</span>written down by a Jesuit -father who was returning -in the ship from a mission -to the newly-settled Antarctic -Continent.</p> - -<p class='c008'>There is no more to be -told. The old Prince died -on the voyage, glad to depart -as soon as he had told -his tale.</p> - -<p class='c008'>He had come to see -many things clearly in his -lonely years on the mountain -height. What these -things were, beyond what -has been written here, he -told to the Jesuit father—under -the seal of confession.</p> - -<div class='figcenter id004'> -<img src='images/i_100.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_103'>103</span></div> -<div class='chapter'> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_103.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> -<div> - <h2 class='c005'>NOTES.</h2> -</div> - -</div> - -<h3 class='c010'><i>Page <a href='#Page_22'>22</a>.</i></h3> - -<div class='c011'> - <img class='drop-capi' src='images/di_103.jpg' width='100' alt=''> -</div><p class='drop-capi_8'> -How little any thought -in those happy days -from what quarter the -storm of invasion -would come, or how the whole -order of the civilized world -would be once more sunk under -waves of barbarism! We might -now indeed despair, only that as -from each such wave in ages -past a better world has risen -than that which went before, -from the depth of our trouble -now may rise the best of all-the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_104'>104</span>new earth to which the new -Heaven shall come down.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'><i>Page <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>.</i></h3> - -<p class='c011'>A very interesting paper in a -magazine of last century by Professor -Seeley was the first prophecy -of this European Court. -See <cite>Macmillan’s Magazine</cite>, -March, 1871.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'><i>Page <a href='#Page_37'>37</a>.</i></h3> - -<p class='c011'><i>The women.</i>—Of course I do -not here allude to the wives of -the Anarchists, of whom some -accompanied their husbands.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'><i>Page <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>.</i></h3> - -<p class='c011'><i>Troops.</i>—This must not be -understood as if national armies -were then existing. The United -States of Europe and America -maintained a large military force, -which was sent hither and thither, -where needed, as representing -the Power which preserved -the order of the civilized world -<span class='pageno' id='Page_105'>105</span>and controlled the still savage -or unruly.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'><i>Page <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>.</i></h3> - -<p class='c011'>Burmah had before this time -ceased to be governed by England, -having insisted on “Home -Rule.”</p> - -<h3 class='c012'><i>Page <a href='#Page_78'>78</a>.</i></h3> - -<p class='c011'>The now reduced number of the -Dacoits was felt to be no longer -a cause of danger if the rest of -the society were ordered and -strong; for it will hereafter be -shown that even a free association -for the ordering of a state -must be able to deal in some -way with the disorderly.</p> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/i_105.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_107'>107</span> -<img src='images/i_107.jpg' alt='' class='ig001'> -<div class='ic005'> -<p>C. 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