An aristocrat
must be loyal. So it has ever been, but a modern aristocrat must
also be lucid; there it is that one has at once the demand for
kingship and the repudiation of all existing states and kings. In
this manner he had come to his idea of a great world republic that
must replace the little warring kingdoms of the present, to the
conception of an unseen kingship ruling the whole globe, to his King
Invisible, who is the Lord of Truth and all sane loyalty. "There,"
he said, "is the link of our order, the new knighthood, the new
aristocracy, that must at last rule the earth. There is our Prince.
He is in me, he is in you; he is latent in all mankind. I have
worked this out and tried it and lived it, and I know that outwardly
and inwardly this is the way a man must live, or else be a poor
thing and a base one. On great occasions and small occasions I have
failed myself a thousand times, but no failure lasts if your faith
lasts. What I have learnt, what I have thought out and made sure, I
want now to tell the world. Somehow I will tell it, as a book I
suppose, though I do not know if I shall ever be able to make a
book.
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