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The suppressed psychic material, which in the waking state has been prevented from expression and cut off from internal perception by the antagonistic adjustment of the contradictions, finds ways and means of obtruding itself on consciousness during the night under the domination of the compromise formations. "Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo."
I think that nothing will ever give permanent peace and security to this continent but the extirpation of Slavery therefrom, and that the occasion is nigh; but I would do nothing hastily or vindictively, nor presume to jog the elbow of Providence. No desperate measures for me till we are sure that all others are hopeless, flectere si nequeo SUPEROS, Acheronta movebo.
Perhaps the following consideration will render both the "bias" and the "first-cousinship" at least intelligible. Prince Bismarck is a good hater. When they, through their representatives, bade him defiance in 1862 to 1865, and thwarted his measures of coercion, his inmost soul cried, Acheronta movebo! He sent for Lassalle, he paid his successors' debts, and generally assisted the sect.
"Here is a new party waiting to be called out of chaos, nay, calling to you. An unformed party is just what you want. You give it the impress of your own personality. Remember your own motto: Si superos nequeo movere Acheronta movebo." Lassalle shook his head doubtfully.
So he perorated somewhat after the following fashion: "And, if the liberality of Yorkshire Churchmen proves insufficient to restore the chief glory of our native county, then, with all confidence, I turn to our excellent Dissenting brethren, and I exclaim, with the Latin poet, 'Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta movebo." Mr. Anstey Guthrie has some pleasant instances of texts misapplied.
"Now I had Virgil at my fingers' ends, so I answered him: 'Flectere si nequeo superos, Aeheronta movebo, "'Very good, said he, 'you have the genius, and will come to somethin' yet: now tell me the most moral line in Virgil. "I answered: 'Discere justitiam moniti et non temnere divos. * * He is evidently drawing the long-bow here; this anecdote has been told before.
A line of Virgil came into my head, which seemed to me to contain very good counsel: "Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo", which means that if you cannot get Heaven on your side, you had better try for the Devil. But how was I to get into touch with the Devil?
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