Excerpt from Latter-Day Pamphlets Not towards it, I say, if so! Unanimity of voting - that will do nothing for us if to. Your ship cannot double Cape Horn by its excellent plans of voting. The ship may vote this and that, above decks and below, in the most harmonious ex quisitely constitutional manner: the ship, to get round Cape Horn, will find a set of conditions already voted for, and fixed with adamantine rigour by the ancient Elemental Powers, who are entirely careless how you vote. If you can, by voting or without voting, ascertain these conditions, and valiantly con form to them, you will get round the Cape: if you cannot, the ruffian Winds will blow you ever back again; the inexor able Icebergs, dumb privy-councillors from Chaos, will nudge you with most chaotic 'admonition you will be flung half frozen on the Patagonian cliffs, or admonished into shivers by your iceberg councillors, and sent sheer down to Davy Jones, and will never get round Cape Horn at all! Unanimity on board ship -yes indeed, the ship's crew may be very unani mous, which doubtless, for the time being, will be very com fortable to the ship's crew, and to their Phantasm Captain if they have one but if the tack they unanimously steer upon is guiding them into the belly of the Abyss, it will not profit them much l - Ships accordingly do not use the ballot-box at all; and they reject the Phantasm species of Captains: one wishes much some other Entities, - since all entities lie under the same rigorous set oflaws, - could be brought to show as much wis dom, and sense at least of self-preservation, the first command of Nature. Phantasm Captains with unanimous votings: this is considered to be all the law and all the prophets, at present. Ifa man could shake-out of his mind the universal noise rofpolitical doctors in this generation and in the last generation or two, and consider the matter face to face, with his own sin cere intelligence looking at it, I venture to say he would find this a very extraordinary method 0! Navigating, whether in the Straits of Magellan or the undiscovered Sea of Time. To pro sper in this world, to gain felicity, victory and improvement, either for a man or a nation, there is but one thing requisite, That the man or nation can discern what the true regulations of the Universe are in regard to him and his pursuit, and can faithfully and steadfastly follow these. These will lead him to victory; whoever it may be that sets him in the way of these, - were it Russian Autocrat, Chartist Parliament, Grand Lama. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.