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Ferriere was a fastness of the kind of tyranny that passes out of
human experience, the tyranny of the strong man over men. Essen
comes, the new thing, the tyranny of the strong machine. . . .
"Science is either slave or master. These people--I mean the German
people and militarist people generally--have no real mastery over
the scientific and economic forces on which they seem to ride. The
monster of steel and iron carries Kaiser and Germany and all Europe
captive. It has persuaded them to mount upon its back and now they
must follow the logic of its path. Whither? . . . Only kingship
will ever master that beast of steel which has got loose into the
world. Nothing but the sense of unconquerable kingship in us all
will ever dare withstand it. . . . Men must be kingly aristocrats--
it isn't MAY be now, it is MUST be--or, these confederated metals,
these things of chemistry and metallurgy, these explosives and
mechanisms, will trample the blood and life out of our race into
mere red-streaked froth and filth. . . ."
Then he turned to the question of this metallic beast's release.
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