When such a state of society is brought about in this country the infidels will have more _hell_ than they will relish. Listen once more, “Man’s right to be self-governed is, equally with his desire to be so, _self-evident_.” How are these infidels going to have self-government and intolerance by law in matters of religion and state? This Godless infidel says, “But what is most insultingly _termed_ ‘elective franchise’ is the farthest thing possible from self-government.... The _popular_ free discussion of affairs of the last degree of complication, religious and state affairs, except during the _crisis_ period of revolution, only renders that worst of despotisms, anarchy, chronic; it seats in the social organism that political gangrene, demagogism, which has always hitherto sooner or later required the cauterization of military despotism in order to save even civilization. Despotism is the most inveterate of all the diseases of the social organism which ignorance has inflicted; nay, it is a complication of all its diseases. What, my fellow-man, would any of you think of the physician who should consult with an individual organism with a view to taking that organism’s opinion as to what course he (the physician) had best pursue in order to cure him (the organism) of scrofula, complicated with every other bodily disease to which flesh is heir?... Evidently, church and state management require art and skill infinitely superior to what ‘supernaturalism’ and its legitimate child monarchism, or its bastard issue, caucus-and-ballot-boxism, are capable of. From the dissecting-room, the chemical laboratory, the astronomical observatory, the physician’s and physiologist’s study—in fine, from all the schools of science and arts should human law be _declared_, instead of being ‘enacted’ in legislative halls by those who in every respect besides political trickery, fraud and ‘smartness,’ are perfect ignoramuses.” How is all this to be reconciled with the ideas of self-government set forth by this author and copied in this article? Who are to be the doctors, and who are to be the patients? When _popular_ discussion is confined to art and science, only as it may be used in order to keep it out of religious and state affairs, who are to be the _popular_ free disputants? When legislative halls are done away, along with their _progenitors_, elective franchise and representation, and law emanates from all the schools of science and art by “declaration,” will men be more ready to obey?