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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
I warned you that I would scatter a few chapters on the theory of social movement through the course of this book: here is one which is entertaining, but which also should be read twice, in order fully to understand the movement of Civilisation, the progress and decay of which are represented in the table on the next page.
By pointing out the opportunity for social progress provided by insular monopoly and freemasonry, I have demonstrated the incompetence of modern politics, which have been incapable of profiting by these means of improvement, these ways out of Civilisation.
The moderns are blinder still on the subject of the commercial mechanism; an analysis of it will prove the philosophers' insistence on stifling truth in all its forms and ignoring the most obvious symptoms of our ignorance of the art of society.
The rule of the commercial spirit is represented here as a degeneration or decadence of the civilised order, and the table of the civilised mechanism, which follows, indicates the positions held by commerce and monopoly. I shall explain (in the ‘Progressive table of civilised movement’) how progress and decadence are operated solely by natural forces, without the inexact sciences ever having provided any assistance. Each phase has special attributes which I shall not go into here.
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