If I believed that Mammonism with its adjuncts was to continue henceforth the one serious principle of our existence, I should reckon it idle to solicit remedial measures from any Government, the disease being insusceptible of remedy.
Government can do much, but it can in no wise do all.
But the Government cannot do, by all its signalling and commanding, what the Society is radically indisposed to do. Of all that can be enacted by any Parliament in regard to it, the germs must already lie potentially extant in those two Classes, who are to obey such enactment. It is with the hope of awakening here and there a British man to know himself for a man and divine soul, that a few words of parting admonition, to all persons to whom the Heavenly Powers have lent power of any kind in this land, may now be addressed. Of hearts made by the Almighty God I will not believe such a thing. Our England, our world cannot live as it is.