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Every consideration pointed to the uncle of the heir, and in the strong hands of Attalus the Second the regency became practically a monarchy. The new ruler was a man of more than middle age, of sober judgment, and deeply versed in all the mysteries of kingcraft; for a mutual trust, rare amongst royal brethren in the East, had led Eumenes to treat him more as a colleague than as a lieutenant.
What a spectacle was this for the representatives of European kingcraft at our seat of government! How the titled agents of Metternich and Nicholas must have trembled, in view of this imposing demonstration, for the safety of their "peculiar institutions!"
And though, indeed, King Alexander is but a stripling, knowing little of kingcraft, yet, even though he were a babe in arms, he and no other is still my sovereign lord." And at that he raised his goblet to his lips and drank a deep draught of wine.
And then there was written in broad letters of fire across the shoulders of this sturdy devil 'Kingcraft and Churchcraft have cursed the nations of the earth, and turned to blight the blessings of the True God! Again this significant edict vanished, and in its place there came, as in letters of gold, 'Cheap Government and no Established Church let the nations be ruled in wisdom and right! This had reference to good old England, not America, for here bishops are known to be meek and good.
He did not care to hear more bitter words that could make the breach between them only wider, since words once spoken are so hard to wash away, and the bringing of this bitter woman back to obedience to her father was so great a part of his religion of kingcraft.
"You will have to be crowned without a collar. They won't know the difference." "I tell you I'm not going to be crowned," cried the Doctor "not if I can help it. I'll make them a speech. Perhaps that will satisfy them." He turned back to the Indians at the door. "My friends," he said, "I am not worthy of this great honor you would do me. Little or no skill have I in the arts of kingcraft.
We must look for the origins of Whitman, I think, in the deep world-currents that have been shaping the destinies of the race for the past hundred years or more; in the universal loosening, freeing, and removing obstructions; in the emancipation of the people, and their coming forward and taking possession of the world in their own right; in the triumph of democracy and of science; the downfall of kingcraft and priestcraft; the growth of individualism and non-conformity; the increasing disgust of the soul of man with forms and ceremonies; the sentiment of realism and positivism, the religious hunger that flees the churches; the growing conviction that life, that nature, are not failures, that the universe is good, that man is clean and divine inside and out, that God is immanent in nature, all these things and more lie back of Whitman, and hold a causal relation to him.
The discontents which her wisdom had appeased were revived by the dishonest and pusillanimous policy which her successor called Kingcraft. He readily granted oppressive patents of monopoly. When he needed the help of his Parliament, he as readily annulled them. As soon as the Parliament had ceased to sit, his Great Seal was put to instruments more odious than those which he had recently cancelled.
By threatening to withdraw the Court and Courts of Justice from Edinburgh James brought the citizens to their knees, and was able to take order with the preachers. James, in reducing the Kirk, relied as much on his cunning and "kingcraft" as on his prerogative.
He is for kingcraft to mask his viziercraft and save him the labour of patiently attempting oratory and persuasion, which accomplishment he does not possess: it is not in iron. We think the more precious metal will beat him when the broader conflict comes. But such an adversary is not to be underrated. I do not underrate him: and certainly not he me.
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