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Safe himself in that "Pinnacle of Weissnichtwo," he would consent, with a tragic solemnity, that the monster UTILITARIA, held back, indeed, and moderated by nose-rings, halters, foot-shackles, and every conceivable modification of rope, should go forth to do her work; to tread down old ruinous Palaces and Temples with her broad hoof, till the whole were trodden down, that new and better might be built!
Positivism in philosophy and pre- Raphaelitism in art, confronted her in the ranks of the literary, lofty idealism seemed trodden down pawed over by Carlyle's "Monster Utilitaria." When she turned to the next social stratum she found altars of mammon-groves of Baal, shining Schoe Dagonset up by business men and women of fashion.
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